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1971 Gibson Les Paul Custom


tepidy

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grog-

 

those knobs are from a '76. what's the back of the headstock look like? if it has a "00" stamped serial number in gold, it's a 76.

 

another diagnostic element: fretwise, a '72 would have had the itty bitty 'fretless wonder' frets. a '76 would have had the low, wide, flat frets that had been used on deluxes and SGs and which gibson started using on customs in late '75...

 

chris

 

Hi Chris,

 

The serial # is stamped, 966XXX. It has grover tuners. The frets are fat & low, I have a 1969 LP Deluxe & the frets are a lot thinner on it. I would have thought that it should have had witch hat knobs, the reflecter knobs matched the 69 so I left them. Didn't they use a decal with the guitar model in '75, '76 & part of '77?

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