Jerseyboy Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 I have a Gibson Les Paul Custom, black, what would be the best kind of pen to use to have it signed, gold paint pen or gold Sharpie, or if any body has a better idea. Appreciate any feedback.
deepblue Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 Get the pick guard signed. Dont ruin your guitar. I wouldnt let God himself deface my guitars.
steve167 Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 Get the pick guard signed. Dont ruin your guitar. I wouldnt let God himself deface my guitars. Pretty good idea, too! Don't want an autographed guitar a year or two or three from now, just replace the pickguard. Anybody know what effect the pen would have on the lacquer finish of the body or vica versa anyway? I'm by no means a paint expert!
AXE® Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 I get the pickguards signed. For black though, a silver sharpie will do the trick.
Tim Plains Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 Are you taking it to the Iridium? You don't need to bring a pen or marker, Les has his own.
tobyjoe Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 Since you want the autograph in gold, I would take a Sharpie and have the pickguard signed. Also, just take the Sharpie and the pickguard.
Jerseyboy Posted May 23, 2009 Author Posted May 23, 2009 [quot e=Are Nine]Are you taking it to the Iridium? You don't need to bring a pen or marker, Les has his own. Yes, I am taking it to the Iridium, I thought about having Les Paul sign the guitar itself on the body by the control knobs, but it seems everyone is saying just to have the pickguard signed. We already have our tickets to the show, flying in from Kansas City to see him in June. As far as getting rid of the guitar in a few years, I still have and play my first guitars I bought in the 70's, unfortunately I didn't have the sense to purchase a Gibson Les Paul then. Appreciate the help and feedback, I have to give this some thought, the pickguard or the guitar body.
Pink_Floyd Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 What is it like at the show? Is it easy to get a chat with Les and for him to sign stuff? or is it frowned upon?
GuitarJunkie Posted May 23, 2009 Posted May 23, 2009 If you don't want to worry about it wearing off, try this...
Tim Plains Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Appreciate the help and feedback' date=' I have to give this some thought, the pickguard or the guitar body.[/quote']Well, think about this... Les Plays two shows every Monday night. 8:00 & 10:00. When you get to the Iridium, you'll wait outside on the street for up to one hour. Then you'll sit down, have dinner and enjoy the show. He only does autographs after the second show. So, if you have tickets to the first show, you have to come back after the second show to meet him. Then after the second show, you may end up spending another hour in line waiting to meet Les. Lugging around a guitar case for that long seems like a hassle to me. Not to mention the trip to and from the club. I brought a book for him to sign. Floyd, you can't talk with him during the show but he does interact with the audience. You get to talk with him for 30 - 60 seconds while he autographs things at the end of the night.
crossroadsnyc Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Yes, the Iridium ... good times. Last time I went was about a year and a half ago w/my girlfriend. We opted to wait around after the show to get an autograph, and got to chatting with a British who were in town on vacation ... as a result, we were last in line ... which turned out great. Perhaps we caught Les on a good night, be he was very gracious and gave me far more than the standard 30-60 seconds ... more like 10-15 minutes. We talked guitars (Gibson and others ... as you can probably imagine, we disagreed on Fenders haha), he asked me about my own playing and what types of music I'm interested in & what I play through (guitars as well as amps), gave me some advice on a couple things I had asked about in regards to my own playing, and finally sent me off with some absolutely incredible words of encouragement (and of course, an autograph). It's really something, for a man as larger than life as he is, for him to be so grounded, humble, and willing to give even more of his time to people than he has to. The man has given so much to the music community, yet is still more than willing to keep doing so in every capacity ... really, that's true hero status. Anyway, here are a couple pics, (following Tim's lead here) from that evening:
NeoConMan Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Get the pick guard signed. Dont ruin your guitar. I wouldnt let God himself deface my guitars. BAH! HUMBUG!!!! I'm not quite as hung up about this as it seems everybody else is - and I'm widely regarded as an anal pr!ck here and elsewhere..... The pickguard is a cop out' date=' and if I was signing your $10 pickguard I would figure it was headed straight for Ebay so you could make a quick buck off my signature. At the very least, it can be transfered from guitar to guitar with no real home - it must mean a lot to ya, eh? There were a few recent threads here about signing guitars, including one I started about Ted Nugent signing my goldtop. I left my cherry sunburst LP at home for two reasons; [b']1.[/b] I wanted the signature to show up as well as possible, so the goldtop won. 2. I'm saving my sunburst Les Paul for exactly the trip described here - to see The Man Himself at Iridium. Contingency Plan - If I don't get to NYC to meet Les before the unmentionable happens, I'll hope for Jimmy Page. BB King and a handful of others might sign my 335, there are a couple Strat/Tele guys out there I would like to score. Beyond that, it's God himself and that's it. No second rate baloney on my guitars - signed by unheard-of what's-his-names - but if it's one of the Gods of Guitar.... I say do it right. Honor the man, give him his due reverence. $.02 from some guy on the internet.
pohatu771 Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 I agree with NeoConMan about signing the guitar, but I also see good reasons not to. My Casino was signed by Reverend Horton Heat (by the previous owner), and it's wearing off. If you intend to play the guitar, maybe you shouldn't have it signed... and it's the signatures by the controls that are wearing fastest. The Rev himself signed it on the lower horn, and it's just about mint. I feel a bit uncomfortable asking him to sign the guitar... if I were in his position, I think I'd rather be remembered for my music, or even the innovations in recording technology, that for having my name on a guitar that, today, isn't what I designed. I say buy a copy of "How High The Moon" or another record and have him sign that.
deepblue Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 I say do it right.Honor the man, give him his due reverence. I did...I bought a few of his guitars.
Tim Plains Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 I'm not quite as hung up about this as it seems everybody else is - and I'm widely regarded as an anal pr!ck here and elsewhere..... Yes' date=' you are. The pickguard is a cop out' date=' and if I was signing your $10 pickguard I would figure it was headed straight for Ebay so you could make a quick buck off my signature.[/quote']Pardon me, but how is a pickguard headed straight to eBay any different than a guitar headed straight to eBay? There were a few recent threads here about signing guitars' date=' including one I started about Ted Nugent signing my goldtop.I left my cherry sunburst LP at home for two reasons; [b']1.[/b] I wanted the signature to show up as well as possible, so the goldtop won. 2. I'm saving my sunburst Les Paul for exactly the trip described here - to see The Man Himself at Iridium. So, this will make two guitars you own and will never be played again for fear of rubbing off a worthless signature?? Sounds like a waste of money and two perfectly good guitars to me... $.02 from some guy on the internet. Two more cents form some other guy on the internet. Cheers Neo.
cookieman15061 Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Have him sign the guitar for cryin out loud! If you're doin it for the money its a win and if your not and it wears a little who cares you know ya got to meet him and he signed his name on a guitar he never played or owned. There next topic.
cdntac Posted May 24, 2009 Posted May 24, 2009 Do what will make you happy --- it's your guitar. If you get the pickguard signed you may not enjoy seeing the signature as much as you would had you got the actual guitar signed. His signature means something to you --- seeing it on your guitar (be it hanging on the wall or sitting on a guitar stand) will mean that each time you walk by the guitar you will glance over at it and say "Wow....I've got Les Paul's autograph on it." And the memory of him signing it will stick with you forever. IMO....get the guitar signed. Talk to a luthier after you have it done and get his/her advice as what to use to cover it.
Jerseyboy Posted May 25, 2009 Author Posted May 25, 2009 I appreciate all the feedback. I will take ther guitar and have Les sign it in silver Sharpie on the body. Since I have no intentions of ever selling the guitar and will be using it, I will have him sign it on the bottom of the guitar away from the knobs. I know it's going to be a hassle getting the guitar from Kansas City back to Jersey and than to New York than back to Kansas City, but years from now when I look at it I know it was well worth it.
NeoConMan Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Pardon me' date=' but how is a pickguard headed straight to eBay any different than a guitar headed straight to eBay?[/quote']For the same money I can buy 100 pickguards - or one guitar. I can sell 10 pickguards and turn a profit, but if I can't move the guitar I'm stuck.... I will play the guitar with Nugent's signature on it, but I don't play that much anymore anyway and have many guitars to choose from when I'm in the mood. On top of that, buying another guitar when the mood strikes me - and I have the cash in my pocket - is not that big a thing. If I can afford it, I'll pick up another Les Paul when the deal is on the table. Actually, I just found another Goldtop Deluxe from the seventies I would like to buy to let the Nuge Guitar stay put away. I gotta see if I can scrounge up the $$$$ to grab it, if not there will be others...
Boston004681 Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Get the pick guard signed. Dont ruin your guitar. I wouldnt let God himself deface my guitars. listen 2 this guy. ? July '08She's smokin' !! You SAW LP!!!!????
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