I've seen this video a hundred times and this is the first time I've noticed this. Check out Les Paul's guitar, notice anything odd about his Custom?
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Anybody Ever Notice This?????
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DirtySteve
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Hard to make out anything in those pics, but it looks like only 2 knobs. Cant make out the pickups, is there only one?
OP
I just put up the video, you can see the guitar better on the second song . It appears to be a single pickup Custom.
DirtySteve
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That's what it looks like to me, but why does it have a selector switch?
Amp Mad Scientist
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You can see the neck PU in some of the shots if you look carefully.
You can also see the selector switch....
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Clockworkmike
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Thats pretty unique. Never saw a Custom with only 2 knobs. Seems even weirder that its 2 p-90s and only 2 knobs. Thats essentially Telecaster wiring isnt it?
Cadorman
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Very cool. I wonder if Gibson let regular people order custom Customs back in the day? Remember when you could order a car from the factory and pretty much go through the book and pick out every little detail? Completely gone by the end of the seventies. We flew out to Lansing MI and picked up a 78 Olds that my dad ordered. It was pretty cool for a twelve year old.
I'm not sure the guitar in the still shots and the guitar in the video in the OP are the same instrument.
Check out these captures I made from the video:
While there is too much motion blur to really make out the knobs, this guitar has what looks like a Maestro-type tailpiece in the first pic. Les Paul is in the process of picking up the guitar in this shot, so there is some motion blur, but you can also make out a long bar extending from the tailpiece, just over the corner of the pickguard.
In the second still image, the bar is much clearer. It has a curve to it and extends from the tailpiece itself to just over the corner of the pickguard, as in the first pic. There are other close-up shots in the video where this bar is apparent.
I've looked for other images of this guitar and can't find them.
However, here is another video with another guitar. In this video, it is unmistakably clear. The guitar has two pickups, but only two knobs, AND the guitar output jack is on the face of the guitar, not on the side.
Check out these captures I made from the video:
While there is too much motion blur to really make out the knobs, this guitar has what looks like a Maestro-type tailpiece in the first pic. Les Paul is in the process of picking up the guitar in this shot, so there is some motion blur, but you can also make out a long bar extending from the tailpiece, just over the corner of the pickguard.
In the second still image, the bar is much clearer. It has a curve to it and extends from the tailpiece itself to just over the corner of the pickguard, as in the first pic. There are other close-up shots in the video where this bar is apparent.
I've looked for other images of this guitar and can't find them.
However, here is another video with another guitar. In this video, it is unmistakably clear. The guitar has two pickups, but only two knobs, AND the guitar output jack is on the face of the guitar, not on the side.
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RVA
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I just think it is cool that you have seen that video a hundred times!