jamit Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Im new to Gibson guitars I have a old Gibson Les Paul standard. I want see what I could find out about it and maybe value. The serial # is OO2345??. The bridge looks like a TP-6 with fine tuners and it has two mini swicthes by the vol and tone knob and gold humbuckers are these stock items?. Any help I can get will be helpful I will try to add some pics Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrplayr1976 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Im new to Gibson guitars I have a old Gibson Les Paul standard. I want see what I could find out about it and maybe value. The serial # is OO2345??. The bridge looks like a TP-6 with fine tuners and it has two mini swicthes by the vol and tone knob and gold humbuckers are these stock items?. Any help I can get will be helpful I will try to add some pics Thanks Pics would be helpful. Gold is not stock for a 76 standard, nor is the TP-6..value depends on condition ,and how original it is . Hey...you have a 76 LP. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamit Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 I tried uploading pics but it says my file are to big how can I post pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I tried uploading pics but it says my file are to big how can I post pics? Edit you images in Paint..... Size them down to 50% of what they're currently sized at, then Save As.... Then try to upload again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrplayr1976 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I tried uploading pics but it says my file are to big how can I post pics? Or remove the old images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamit Posted March 4, 2011 Author Share Posted March 4, 2011 Here are some pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 As gtrplayr1976 mentioned; gold hardware and a tp-6 were not standard 'Standard' fittings in '76. As there is a pair of mini-toggles added it would seem practically certain the p-ups are not the ones originally fitted - hence the hardware finish anomaly. The tp-6 was understood to aid fine-tuning. Perhaps a previous owner thought the swap would improve intonation? Gibson serial numbers from the '70s are notoriously difficult to date and the one you posted looks, to me at any rate, very strange indeed - although I don't have my reference books to hand at the moment. I'll try to check later on. Could you check to see if the codes on the vol and tone pots are legible? If these are the original units (?!) we could verify the approximate date from those. Certainly the general shape of the 'horn' and the 'Protector' case would be correct for a '76. As far as value goes; very difficult to guess. As it's a non-original instrument it would generally fetch a lower price when compared to an all-original example from the same period. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamit Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 So did Gibson Les paul ever come with mini-toggles added ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FarnsBarns Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 The switches are probably coil taps and aren't original, this means the pickups are probably not original or possibly modified. The tail piece is non original. Could you take a close up of the control cavity and remove one, or both of the pickups and photograph the wiring. What makes you think It's 76? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd_artist Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 So did Gibson Les paul ever come with mini-toggles added ? Thanks not in 76, but around 1980 there was the Les Paul Artist, that had the 2 mini toggles with the Moog active circuit board, yours is not that model, as others have said, this is a Standard that has been modified, pickups not original possibly the pots and the added toggles switches which I would assume are for coil tapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamit Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Thanks for all your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DestructorsKillMusic1982 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Did TP-6 bridges ever come stock on Les Pauls at all? My 2001 Standard had one on it (I removed it and put it on my Explorer instead), I figured it was aftermarket since the pickups had been changed to Dimarzios also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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