Aaaand..I've been bit by the LP bug again....
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steveb63
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eSGEe
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I prefer the ODD and unique
eclecticsynergy
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I've got a bunch, have posted most of 'em here before I think. Hands down favorite is Amaterasu, my Guitar Trader pre-Historic. Woody and sweet and just impossibly lively.
We've been through a lot together since I bought her new in '83. She has 36 years of wear on her now, but all her scars were earned in battle.
She isn't super flamed like a lot of the newer Historics, but neither were most of the '59 bursts. I have one grainy phone pic that shows off her top a little better.
Went to attach thumbnails for a bunch of others I've accumulated over the decades, but the forum software still won't allow linking to my Imgur files - I get a message warning of an insecure connection because although Imgur itself is https, the pic links it provides evidently are not. Posting fifteen or sixteen full-sized pics would amount to boasting, I think. At least it'd feel like I was hijacking the thread. But I've always liked LPs and in my years as a full-time pro, equipment purchases were tax deductible. So by now (if you include various non-LP singlecuts) I have a full squadron.
We've been through a lot together since I bought her new in '83. She has 36 years of wear on her now, but all her scars were earned in battle.
She isn't super flamed like a lot of the newer Historics, but neither were most of the '59 bursts. I have one grainy phone pic that shows off her top a little better.
Went to attach thumbnails for a bunch of others I've accumulated over the decades, but the forum software still won't allow linking to my Imgur files - I get a message warning of an insecure connection because although Imgur itself is https, the pic links it provides evidently are not. Posting fifteen or sixteen full-sized pics would amount to boasting, I think. At least it'd feel like I was hijacking the thread. But I've always liked LPs and in my years as a full-time pro, equipment purchases were tax deductible. So by now (if you include various non-LP singlecuts) I have a full squadron.
That is the Tribute, the first of the Gibson LP’s that I purchased
$1.200 and it had a scratch on the bottom that knocked a few bucks off!
Cheers Mitch
I posted quite a few full size pics, but I think my buddy TCE 63 won’t mind!
eclecticsynergy
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Absolutely. They had awesome stuff there inculding a handful of real Bursts. Good guys too.
eclecticsynergy
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Think I found a way to use Imgur here, by direct linking rather than using the no-border message board link.
I used to feel like it was pretty conceited - or at best, hopelessly corny - when I heard about players naming their guitars. That changed in '87, when I met a PRS so full of character that I soon thought of her more as a collaborator than as a tool, and it seemed perfectly natural to give her a name. Within a few years all my instruments had names. I don't think of it as sheer vanity anymore. Besides, there's a practical aspect - when you have many (including several examples of various models), having a name attached to each is genuinely helpful for keeping 'em straight in your head. And a name on each case makes it much easier to locate one when you want it.
Plus, they really do have individual personalities. So it's only appropriate.
Okay, here goes.
coupla Custom types:
Deathbat, a '77 Greco - super loud & aggressive with the Duncan Mayhem humbuckers
Nightbird - named for the tune Hendrix wrote about Alison Steele
and Nicotine Blonde, a mid-80s Burny
another pic of the Burny
and the Black Beauty, with that sweet staple neck pickup and a Zhangbucker at the bridge
I used to feel like it was pretty conceited - or at best, hopelessly corny - when I heard about players naming their guitars. That changed in '87, when I met a PRS so full of character that I soon thought of her more as a collaborator than as a tool, and it seemed perfectly natural to give her a name. Within a few years all my instruments had names. I don't think of it as sheer vanity anymore. Besides, there's a practical aspect - when you have many (including several examples of various models), having a name attached to each is genuinely helpful for keeping 'em straight in your head. And a name on each case makes it much easier to locate one when you want it.
Plus, they really do have individual personalities. So it's only appropriate.
Okay, here goes.
coupla Custom types:
Deathbat, a '77 Greco - super loud & aggressive with the Duncan Mayhem humbuckers
Nightbird - named for the tune Hendrix wrote about Alison Steele
and Nicotine Blonde, a mid-80s Burny
another pic of the Burny
and the Black Beauty, with that sweet staple neck pickup and a Zhangbucker at the bridge
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eclecticsynergy
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coupla Standard types:
Unburst, with Sheptone PAFs
CherryBomb, with Burstbuckers
and Sonofaburst, a cheapo for hazard duty
another pic of the unburst
and the Trad plus top
Unburst, with Sheptone PAFs
CherryBomb, with Burstbuckers
and Sonofaburst, a cheapo for hazard duty
another pic of the unburst
and the Trad plus top
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eclecticsynergy
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the Razz, a rare custom color Orville w/matching headstock & gold hardware - absence of pickguard & pokerchip marks it as a special production run; normally LPs without pokerchips look wrong to me, but I left this one as is. Have seen one or two red ones, but never saw another in raspberry.
coupla non-Standard types - I love P90 neck tone...
Redstone
Thrush
and Anubis
another pic of the Plum Insane, the color shows up much better in bright light 'cause of the matte finish
coupla non-Standard types - I love P90 neck tone...
Redstone
Thrush
and Anubis
another pic of the Plum Insane, the color shows up much better in bright light 'cause of the matte finish
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eclecticsynergy
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and a few non-LP singlecuts:
Comet
Spike
Dejah Thoris
Kinghawk
and Red Rover
Comet
Spike
Dejah Thoris
Kinghawk
and Red Rover
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