Rocky4 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 ...wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnastynebr Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I would pay about $20 with the "custom" double cut away. Whoever slaped that price tag on is a ****in' idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil325 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 geez...i think he used that guitar for a cutting board at one point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I would pay about $20 with the "custom" double cut away. Whoever slaped that price tag on is a ****in' idiot. Then you would outbid me by 10 bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 For those of you who know a bit about the guitars structure correct me if I am wrong; please. With the top portion of the guitar cut away I believe this idiot has also taken away from this guitars ability to be a stable platform with majority of the neck brace removed. I am assuming the neck is a set neck just like a regular LP' date=' so any tension of pulling up on the normal access would result in this guitars neck coming completely off. Am I right?[/quote'] I agree with you Jocko... maybe if he hadn't cut it so close to the neck... the original cutaway is like 3 milimeters wide, but the "custom job" isnt even 1 milimeter... foget about bending. What the hell was he thinking anyway? That guy must be the person with less notion of symetry in this side of the universe and timestream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninety1vee Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 fail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_HEWC Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 i really wouldn't waste money on that poor thing no matter who might have owned it or played it... It looks like crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPDEN Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Then you would outbid me by 10 bucks And you would outbid me by $10 TG... What a tragedy that is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six-string Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 although the body on that one is a write-off, the neck (with brazilian fretboard), and most of the hardware (pickup, pots, tuners, bridge etc) could be salvaged and used for a 'conversion' with a different body. still not worth $3k tho'. here's my '56 Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Actually the hardware could bring $200 TO $500 bucks if you find a buyer who wants the tuners or pick up and stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 I would pay about $20 with the "custom" double cut away. Whoever slaped that price tag on is a ****in' idiot. Gruhns in Nasville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 The person who did it was probably the original owner and bought it when it was considered to be just a cheap POS guitar. My guess is that at some point he decided he wanted easier access to the upper frets, said "Why not, it's just a cheap POS" and cut out a chunk of it. Maybe the guy was a helluva player and needed an instrument to function the way he wanted it too but was too poor to buy another guitar like an SG so he did what he figured he needed to do. There's a lot of BS mojo surrounding these guitars and, vintage or not, as a player and not a collector I wouldn't pay more than $800-900 for a Les Paul Junior. They were originally designed and built to be inexpensive student model guitars and just because a few rock stars played them doesn't make them any better than what they are in the first place. Collectors will view it much differently than I do, but that's still the reality of what those guitars were intended to be. Now, that's not to say that I wouldn't love to have one set up like the Lennon model, but I'm not paying $5k just to have a second pickup in a guitar that was beat up by a professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six-string Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 jealous much? lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Not at all. I just roll my eyes when I see people saying someone is an idiot for hacking up a cheap guitar - or any guitar - when they have no idea what the story is behind it. The guy probably did it a long time ago, back before people started idolizing guitars. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 PRICE SLASHED TO $2,000!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 And you would outbid me by $10 TG... :D What a tragedy that is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil325 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 The person who did it was probably the original owner and bought it when it was considered to be just a cheap POS guitar. My guess is that at some point he decided he wanted easier access to the upper frets' date=' said "Why not, it's just a cheap POS" and cut out a chunk of it. Maybe the guy was a helluva player and needed an instrument to function the way he wanted it too but was too poor to buy another guitar like an SG so he did what he figured he needed to do. There's a lot of BS mojo surrounding these guitars and, vintage or not, as a player and not a collector I wouldn't pay more than $800-900 for a Les Paul Junior. They were originally designed and built to be inexpensive student model guitars and just because a few rock stars played them doesn't make them any better than what they are in the first place. Collectors will view it much differently than I do, but that's still the reality of what those guitars were intended to be. Now, that's not to say that I wouldn't love to have one set up like the Lennon model, but I'm not paying $5k just to have a second pickup in a guitar that was beat up by a professional. [/quote'] i agree with you Rich, but pricetag is just ridic. my guess is that the original owner was left handed and since left handed guitars were rare he took a saw to it and improvised. but 2000 is still way too much even for sentimentality and vintage value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 i agree with you Rich' date=' but pricetag is just ridic. my guess is that the original owner was left handed and since left handed guitars were rare he took a saw to it and improvised. but 2000 is still way too much even for sentimentality and vintage value[/quote'] That's a very likely possibility as well. Yeah, $2k is still way too much for that guitar no matter how old it is; although, as one person mentioned, it might have enough value in parts to sell in pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 That's a very likely possibility as well. Yeah' date=' $2k is still way too much for that guitar no matter how old it is; although, as one person mentioned, it might have enough value in parts to sell in pieces. [/quote'] http://cgi.ebay.com/1955-gibson-les-paul-p90-pickup-set-with-cream-covers_W0QQitemZ360094602758QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item360094602758&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1730%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A2%7C294%3A50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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