Sweet looking Les Paul Custom for sale

Ebidis said:
I agree with @chilipeppermaniac

No way I would pay that much for a used LP. I have owned a Norlin era LP Standard, and there is no way it was a $4,000 guitar.
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Ha ha... It never was a $4K guitar, but it sure is now! I wonder how many people back in 1958 through 1960 thought that the Standard LP was too much money at around $400. Then 10 years later, a used '58 - '60 LP was maybe around $1K and some people thought once again that that was too much because it never was a $1K guitar. Right now there's probably thousands of old mofos who are walking around with big dents in their foreheads from slapping themselves... Devils Advocate

Ramo said:
Looks nice, but i can buy 4 good guitars with that money.
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But will you have that one great guitar? One great guitar trounces 4 good guitars! ... Devils Advocate, again... :p
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
Noticeable difference with high gain amp...much less noise.
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My Mom's 1979 LPC has the ash trays under the pots and the switch too. It's probably a good idea, but it's not dead-silent by any means. The local AM radio station tower is about 1.5 miles from the studio at Mom's ranch and her LPC will play that station if it's just plugged in and sitting, but my copper shielded guitars do not. when we record up there.

It's quite possible that the Gibson T Tops are the antennae and not the ashtrays.
 
OK, I will not nor did I post the guitar for debating economics of it. BUT to mention it as a nice example of a guitar many have been fond of for years and years. A good condition Custom LP is a worthy instrument that unless the factory really screwed the pooch on, it should serve a player well for years and years.

Price is what a seller is willing to sell for, and a buyer willing to pay. So, supply and demand and the economic condition of the world at the time of sale are usually the main deciding factors. That is, unless you find a good source like Adrian's crack addicts, or my auction/yard sale peddlars.
 
Having said all that, I had a chance to buy a perfectly good Authentic LP Tribute T which is a variant of this '81 LP but close to my price threshold and yet I did not. Instead, I bought a sweet PRS Santana SE, and a Jackson RR3 V guitar for less money than the one Gib LP would have cost me @ $850 that seller was asking. I also could have bought 10 of the PRS's or 16 of the Jackson V's for what the $4000---81 LP Custom costs.
 
67plexi said:
I think 4K is a fair price look what they are trying sell a 1972 LPC LE for
I paid $450.00 new in 1972 still have it inflation since 1972 ?? time to restore it.

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$450 in '72 is about $2800 now, so the value has outpaced inflation. Lately all Norlin-era Customs are peaking it seems, with the value of Silverbursts really going bonkers over the last couple of years.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
OK, I will not nor did I post the guitar for debating economics of it. BUT to mention it as a nice example of a guitar many have been fond of for years and years. A good condition Custom LP is a worthy instrument that unless the factory really screwed the pooch on, it should serve a player well for years and years.

Price is what a seller is willing to sell for, and a buyer willing to pay. So, supply and demand and the economic condition of the world at the time of sale are usually the main deciding factors. That is, unless you find a good source like Adrian's crack addicts, or my auction/yard sale peddlars.
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Yes, exactly. My experience with that era of Customs is that, if the feature set is your thing (3-piece maple neck, 14-degree peghead, shallow carve, low/wide frets, low neck angle) then they are a pretty safe bet and doing nothing but going up in value. They may not be your thing, you may not see the value, you may think Gibsons suck and just want another opportunity to take a shot at them, but for those of us that love this era of Les Pauls this thing is a borderline grail. Maybe full-on grail.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I am fortunate enough to be able to overpay for something if I want it badly enough and not feel ripped off. At the end of the year would I rather have the guitar or the money? Do I miss the money? Would I miss the guitar?
Sold!!!
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Heck, We should get Jethro to buy us all a $4k Les Paul. With the conversion rate of $$$ US vs $$ CDN, it probably translates to $1500 CDN
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I am fortunate enough to be able to overpay for something if I want it badly enough and not feel ripped off. At the end of the year would I rather have the guitar or the money? Do I miss the money? Would I miss the guitar?
Sold!!!
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Bingo, that’s me too. I sometimes pay stupid money, but it’s for something I really want. I’d rather have gear than more numbers in an account. :dood:
 
gball said:
I drool every time you post that thing up. Damn, what a beauty.
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Gball, believe it or not, I totally drool over my Walnut SG. At the point where I only owned my one Black Strat and maybe a P Bass, which would be even before buying my EPI LP, I used to ask myself if I ever bought an SG, which would I want. The answer was either a STD or Special, but it had to be BROWN. And WTF happened. I was close on a BFG LP selling on ebay one day, and lost it. Only within a short period later, I wind up high bidder on my '87 Black 3 knob SG with Brown Gib case.

Thankfully, I was at Music Go Round looking at Tele's a few years later. While looking at the CV Tele they had on the top row of hangers, MY Faded Walnut SG was hanging in the row right below it. It felt perfect and was and still is the SHIZZZZZ. The Neck is to die for, the Bournes pots and 50's wiring I did, and just everything check all the boxes for me.

The White one is another ebay find. Only this one was not a shot in the dark hope it is good guitar, ebay deal. I actually got to check it out in person at the Dundalk Md. Pawn shop that was selling it, before I made any bids.
 
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