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[Sgt.]

I was reading in a trade mag about Gibson's first attempts at releasing reissues of the classic original lp. It was called the Historic 80 and came out in the eighties. It was one of the first 59 reissues or like that, like the 59 flametops, but funny was in the pictures of the control cavity to see those crappy little pink ceramic pill caps in there! The reissues of today are far superior. Agree?

[Bender 4 Life]

I was reading in a trade mag about Gibson's first attempts at releasing reissues of the classic original lp. It was called the Historic 80 and came out in the eighties. It was one of the first 59 reissues or like that, like the 59 flametops, but funny was in the pictures of the control cavity to see those crappy little pink ceramic pill caps in there! The reissues of today are far superior. Agree?

 

my 8/88 30th Ann. Plaintop (58) had the midget ceramic caps & "circuitboard back" p'ups that the wires kept desoldering from at the worst possible moments.

bought it new in 3/89, still have it today, but w/better p'ups and caps.

[Frankv]

I was reading in a trade mag about Gibson's first attempts at releasing reissues of the classic original lp. It was called the Historic 80 and came out in the eighties. It was one of the first 59 reissues or like that, like the 59 flametops, but funny was in the pictures of the control cavity to see those crappy little pink ceramic pill caps in there! The reissues of today are far superior. Agree?

 

Well, from what I have seen there have been great guitars in all eras. That said they are certainly building great stuff today.

 

Regarding your comment on caps. What you see today, fake bumblebees, work no better then that cheap disk you mentioned.

[pippy]

...It was called the Historic 80 and came out in the eighties...

There was the KM series in 1979 which was a half-hearted effort to recreate the '59 'burst.

 

The Heritage Series (which is what I think you mean) was a project originally started in '79 by a guy in Gibson's R&D department called Chuck Barge.

The resulting range was first offered to the public in 1980 (hence the name 'Heritage 80').

There were a few models with slightly different specs;

Heritage Standard 80; Heritage Standard 80 Elite (ebony 'board, one-piece neck) and, one year later, the Heritage Standard 80 Award (gold 'bits').

 

Later still there was the Les Paul Standard 82.

From this period onwards there were quite a number of 'special order' guitars for dealerships such as Guitar Trader, Leo's and Jimmy Wallace.

Gradually there was a better understanding of what, exactly, should be on these instruments and the pre-historics continued to improve.

 

I happen to prefer the efforts made by the Historic Division / Custom Shop from '93 - on but there are a few forumites with KMs and they love them.

 

P.

[Sgt.]

Well, from what I have seen there have been great guitars in all eras. That said they are certainly building great stuff today.

 

Regarding your comment on caps. What you see today, fake bumblebees, work no better then that cheap disk you mentioned.

yeah i hear that, i have luxe repros (replaced little pink discs) and I understand with caps that caps of the same value do pretty much the same job, despite the medium ... so why expensive pio replacements? There's subtle differences when comparing the two on a graph. I really like the luxe bees with bb pros and pure nickel strings through the tubes!