Another "vintage" find

Jethro Rocker

Jethro Rocker

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Not sure if this is considered vintage or not but it is to me!
A 1976 wine red - something I have never really seen so not considered - Les Paul Custom.
Really good condition, some minor rash on the back, light front scratches, no finish wear anywhere!
Heavy bugger, sounds really good, seems to be a bit more high emd than I am used to which is awesome. I haven't ABd it at all. Came with original case.
Spirit helped me too!

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Jethro Rocker said:
Thanks! Original gold hardware. Say, speaking of, what is the difference at that stage between Custom, Standard etc?
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You would have been able to get the Custom, Standard and Deluxe at the time. That being the Norlin era there were also a ton of limited variants, too many to go into but a lot of very cool stuff was coming out during that period and Adrian can fill you in on the Les Paul Recording which was one of the most interesting of the time.

Main difference between the Custom and Standard/Deluxe (which only differed in their picksup, humbuckers vs. mini hums) are the Custom has the full muliti ply binding on body and front of headstock headstock, ebony fretboard, split diamond pearl inlay, block pearl fretboard inlays, sealed (usually Schaller) tuners, gold hardware. And the body of a Custom is very slightly thicker than the Standard/Deluxe.

Honestly, I feel the mid-to-late '70's Les Paul Customs are the greatest guitars that have ever come out of Gibson from any era. Haters be damned. They're heavy in weight and sound (nothing like a T-Top). I've owned a few of them over the years - my first "real" guitar was a '77 Custom that I got new in September of that year - and there is just nothing like them. The one I have now is a '79 Silverburst, which has chrome hardware instead of gold, and I would never part with it.
 
gball said:
You would have been able to get the Custom, Standard and Deluxe at the time. That being the Norlin era there were also a ton of limited variants, too many to go into but a lot of very cool stuff was coming out during that period and Adrian can fill you in on the Les Paul Recording which was one of the most interesting of the time.

Main difference between the Custom and Standard/Deluxe (which only differed in their picksup, humbuckers vs. mini hums) are the Custom has the full muliti ply binding on body and front of headstock headstock, ebony fretboard, split diamond pearl inlay, block pearl fretboard inlays, sealed (usually Schaller) tuners, gold hardware. And the body of a Custom is very slightly thicker than the Standard/Deluxe.

Honestly, I feel the mid-to-late '70's Les Paul Customs are the greatest guitars that have ever come out of Gibson from any era. Haters be damned. They're heavy in weight and sound (nothing like a T-Top). I've owned a few of them over the years - my first "real" guitar was a '77 Custom that I got new in September of that year - and there is just nothing like them. The one I have now is a '79 Silverburst, which has chrome hardware instead of gold, and I would never part with it.
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Here is my 76 SG Std. My guess is LP's have trapezoid markers in 76 but don't quote me on that. I still remember when ES 335's had rectangle ones instead of Dots, and the 355's had the ones like this Custom.

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