Riffster Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Just browsing CG locally I ran into this. http://nashville.craigslist.org/msg/1384156020.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIANTRobOT420 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 it looks like an Ibanez Artist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzep59 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Strange, but I like it. Looks pretty clean. Is that black space on the pickup rings a switch to coil split or is that just some tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillybilly Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 you should buy it. i believe the explorer headstock is pretty rare. even if i am mistaken, it is a curious looking guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbonesullivan Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 hmmm.. a factory kahler on a Gibson? I think I see a bit of a bridge bushing peaking out from under the front... but then again those were strange days for many guitar makers. What's the serial number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max2343 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 It Does Look Like an Ibanez Artist and its Cheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohatu771 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 The XPL is the final version of the Gibson Spirit. I've never seen the Spirit XPL until now... I was under the impression it was the same body shape as the Spirit (which is a double-cutaway Les Paul Junior or Special). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Real and seems to be all stock. There have been 4 of those posted here in the past year... always with the same opening "never seen one of these before". Cool little guitar, if you have some spare change you should buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 I have seen similar guitars but they are Spirits, just have not seen one being called a Les Paul. The Kahler is factory just like many other Gibsons had them at the time. I actually like the doulble cutaway body on this one. I am jot buying this one, I am looking for an LP but I am holding for a special one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyelectro Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Noob here, just registered so I could access this thread. I DID buy this one. Not precisely the LP I was looking for.. but rarity, condition, perfectly pristine unmolested originality and Tim Shaw Pups sold me. (dosn't hurt a bit that the seller was a dead straight shooter and a serious guitar guy as well). Not turning up the photo I ran across last week w/ Rick Nielsen playing his DC-XPL (AAA Burst top). Not a Kahler guy m'self, but there's no denying this thing's authenticity. Ser# 80805649 MADE IN U S A on back of explorer headstock. Pearloid markers on ebony board. Pat Appl For stickers on pup surrounds. Doesn't exhibit the Norlin pancake construction I was afraid it would, maple cap (3pc) over what appears to be a solid 1-piece mahogany body (if you can't find a seam under nitro that's been shrinking for 24yrs, looks like a pretty safe assumption). Maple neck. I'm blowing out original routing sawdust in the control cavity, cleaning up original polishing compound here & there. Just astoundingly original. And the icing on the cake, Shaw pickups stamped 373 185 bridge and 372 285 at the neck. (Jan & Feb 1985). Okay, so the pots are a little scratchy, little lacquer checking in a few spots.. but this thing just sings. Feel like I hit the Lotto. Assuming Thundergod's "..4 of those posted here in the last year.." is on the money, I'd call that pretty rare. There are ~1,000 Les Pauls on Craigslist on any given day, (more than that on the 'bay), 10 or 20 valid 60s or early 70s LPs, four or five 50s Goldtops, and at least a couple of '59 Bursts on flea-bay at all times. One model showing up 4 or 5 times a year qualifies as rare in my book. I'll put up some photos once the kids show me how. 1985 DC-XPL, Cool guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Hey man, congratz, hope you can get those pics up soon. I do remember 4 or 5 people asking about that same model and saying they hadn't seen one of those before (I think all of them thought it was a fake and wanted to make sure, but we told them otherwise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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