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Well, I now have the strings and bridge and tailpiece off. Bridge is stamped made in Germany. TP no markings.
I guess I will pull the bridge pup up and look at the back for how it is marked.
For all who guessed Dimarzio Super Distortion, I am sorry to say, it is not one of those. Instead, I saw some kind of Signature on the back of the pup.
Half Expecting it to maybe have Dimarzio's signature on it, I see quite a different name. Al Dimeola model.

 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Well, I now have the strings and bridge and tailpiece off. Bridge is stamped made in Germany. TP no markings.
I guess I will pull the bridge pup up and look at the back for how it is marked.
For all who guessed Dimarzio Super Distortion, I am sorry to say, it is not one of those. Instead, I saw some kind of Signature on the back of the pup.
Half Expecting it to maybe have Dimarzio's signature on it, I see quite a different name. Al Dimeola model.
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I've never pulled the cover plates off my 2021 Les Paul 50's Standard. It sounds too good to mess with....
 
Robert Herndon said:
I've never pulled the cover plates off my 2021 Les Paul 50's Standard. It sounds too good to mess with....
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Considering your experiences with squealing from uncovered/unwaxed pups, I would just stick with keeping yours status quo.
Don't fix something that aint broken.

AS I am now into day 2.5 with my '79, and have the strings off, I am finding a few of the flaws/shortcomings that need correction before I re-string it.

The main area of maintenance are the loose bridge bushings in the body and of course aged saddles, gunky saddle adjustment screws, cleaning of everything, and fixing the loose screw in the bottom strap button.
 
I pulled up some ads for other 1979 Les Paul " KM" models on reverb.

There are a few Tobacco burst type ones like mine, a Natural one that fella Trogly has for sale, and a couple of the Red Sunburst ones.
I messaged Trogly and he says he saw my guitar on sale and that it is a KM just missing the Bridge Double Cream T Top and the KM Truss rod cover.


Other than the pup and KM TRC, the 2 switches which a previous owner cut out some areas in the shielding, pot mounting plate to install them, and somehow the ashtray cover has also become missing.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Considering your experiences with squealing from uncovered/unwaxed pups, I would just stick with keeping yours status quo.
Don't fix something that aint broken.

AS I am now into day 2.5 with my '79, and have the strings off, I am finding a few of the flaws/shortcomings that need correction before I re-string it.

The main area of maintenance are the loose bridge bushings in the body and of course aged saddles, gunky saddle adjustment screws, cleaning of everything, and fixing the loose screw in the bottom strap button.
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Typical for that vintage.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
I pulled up some ads for other 1979 Les Paul " KM" models on reverb.

There are a few Tobacco burst type ones like mine, a Natural one that fella Trogly has for sale, and a couple of the Red Sunburst ones.
I messaged Trogly and he says he saw my guitar on sale and that it is a KM just missing the Bridge Double Cream T Top and the KM Truss rod cover.


Other than the pup and KM TRC, the 2 switches which a previous owner cut out some areas in the shielding, pot mounting plate to install them, and somehow the ashtray cover has also become missing.
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Shame about the pickup, but what you ended up with is pretty awesome and the double white/double black you have looks so badass its kind of cooler.
I think you can find those faraday shields online but if it ain't noisy I wouldn't bother. When I had to replace the pots in one of the '77s I used to own I left the plate and cover out and it never suffered from it.

When I first got my Silverburst the saddles were pretty gnar, so I decided to keep the original Schaller bridge (that's the Made In Germany stamp you mentioned) and just replaced the saddles with brass ones. Only other thing I did to mine is remove the pickup covers, which yours already has, and it ended up with an aluminum tailpiece - the original studs are the long, steel type.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
I pulled up some ads for other 1979 Les Paul " KM" models on reverb.

There are a few Tobacco burst type ones like mine, a Natural one that fella Trogly has for sale, and a couple of the Red Sunburst ones.
I messaged Trogly and he says he saw my guitar on sale and that it is a KM just missing the Bridge Double Cream T Top and the KM Truss rod cover.


Other than the pup and KM TRC, the 2 switches which a previous owner cut out some areas in the shielding, pot mounting plate to install them, and somehow the ashtray cover has also become missing.
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That Trogly fella seems very knowledgeable -- even for an Ohioann (BUWAHAHHA) just dont leave your gear or your wife laying around .......... wait..... no thats a different pirate tale.......

carry on then ..... where was I >?>??>?>?

Oh you should invite him to the forum -- maybe I call out dibs on some of his gear!!! BUWAHAHAHAHA
 
The pup info:
As for specs, I have an old catalog and it doesn't even list it in the text. It shows it at the end in the tone chart section. Wound to 10.84, description says: PAF sound with more lows & mids, output 275 millivolts (buts seems louder than that) model #DP202.
 
eSGEe said:
That Trogly fella seems very knowledgeable -- even for an Ohioann (BUWAHAHHA) just dont leave your gear or your wife laying around .......... wait..... no thats a different pirate tale.......

carry on then ..... where was I >?>??>?>?

Oh you should invite him to the forum -- maybe I call out dibs on some of his gear!!! BUWAHAHAHAHA
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HAHA the Natural LP KM he has listed on Reverb, he wants almost 10k for. I doubt dibs will work.
 
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