Paul Kossoff's 59 Les Paul:

I love and collect vintage guitars that said you have to be careful. I have friends that own music stores and when they
got some closet mint guitar in I would get first shot at it. The 3rd and 4th this month my band played on the 4th
we just finished our set huge stage I was tearing my gear down this kid around 20 years old asked what amps
I was using he had never seen a Dumble amp he asked if he could lift them in their flight cases sure
His band was up next he had a 1963-4 Gibson ES-335 I told him nice guitar he said his grandfather gave it to him
I watched his set after he asked me how he could get my sound I told him it's the amps and I have backups I would be willing to trade
for his ES-335 or modify your Fender Bandmaster and trade a custom shop Les Paul standard. Will see.
 
gball said:
All things that the shop selling it should be blamed for, not the builder.
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either way --- the guitar was not "stellar" --- I didnt BOND with it the way I did the Strat OR my LEs Paul Recording (both from the same shop -- with the same LACK of set up or prep)
The point being just "because" its an R9 -- or an R8 or a 59 gold top ---or CLAPTON played it on 7 albums--- doesnt MEAN its a GOOD guitar--- Ive played 50.00 Squires that were amazing -- IVe played 5000.00 Gibsons that were amazing
Ive played 50.00 Ibanezes that were pur crap-- and I have played 4500 Lesters and PRs's that I wouldnt give ya 50.00 for ---some gutiars regardless of pedigree are just DUDS-- dead wood if you will
and some aren't.
 
PAF resistance readings as a whole, are all over the place. Les Paul himself actually wanted and preferred low wind pups, hence his preference on releasing and using the LP Recording model. If you’re familiar with Les’s modifications to Les Paul model guitars then you’d be aware of the extremes he goes to. EVH isn’t a pimple on Les’s bum when it comes to frankensteining guitars :LOL:

In case you’re wondering what the OX4 pups in a Les Paul sound like through a JTM50, here’s an old audio recording I did via an iPhone mic. It gives anyone who’s interested a basic idea.

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Tonehound said:
PAF resistance readings as a whole, are all over the place. Les Paul himself actually wanted and preferred low wind pups, hence his preference on releasing and using the LP Recording model. If you’re familiar with Les’s modifications to Les Paul model guitars then you’d be aware of the extremes he goes to. EVH isn’t a pimple on Les’s bum when it comes to frankensteining guitars :LOL:

In case you’re wondering what the OX4 pups in a Les Paul sound like through a JTM50, here’s an old audio recording I did via an iPhone mic. It gives anyone who’s interested a basic idea.

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I have this old pair of Epiphone humbuckers. very, very low DCR, but they are, perhaps, the best sounding pickups I have ever heard clean....
 
Tonehound said:
PAF resistance readings as a whole, are all over the place. Les Paul himself actually wanted and preferred low wind pups, hence his preference on releasing and using the LP Recording model. If you’re familiar with Les’s modifications to Les Paul model guitars then you’d be aware of the extremes he goes to. EVH isn’t a pimple on Les’s bum when it comes to frankensteining guitars :LOL:

In case you’re wondering what the OX4 pups in a Les Paul sound like through a JTM50, here’s an old audio recording I did via an iPhone mic. It gives anyone who’s interested a basic idea.

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Very nice, smooth....
 
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what would you classify the T buckers? they really sound open & liter..if that makes any sense, but crisp. Finally am finishing a song with them. At the lead part, then finalize..but kinda liking the tone just on the Rythym.. might not do much w leads,
 
eSGEe said:
I played this one at Jimmys Vintage Music----------
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4560.00 asking price----- rusted strings-- scratchy pots-- bad action---
Id have MAYBE gone 450.00

sometimes the brand-- name-- age-- model -- and dollar amount -- dont make it a good guitar ---

in the same shop I played and fell in love with this
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and for 243.00 brought it home and have been RUINED for all other strats -- HELL Hackmaster even got my USA MADE Peavey strat!!!! ---YEP -- I KEPT a MIM Fender --F'ed up volume knob and all----and passed on a USA Vitnage PEAVEY ------

SHOULD tell you how DAMN GOOD this strat is ----
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OK are those Joe Barden pickups in that Tele?
I have a set I have been thinking of installing in my Tele. It has S.D. Antiquity p'ups now.
 
Tonehound said:
Kris Blakely, the present caretaker, gave it to Jon @ Throbak Pickups to clone and the readings were 7.7k Bridge + 8.6k Neck. The Bridge pup had also been repaired (probably by Sam Li, who was also responsible for Greeny’s OOP pup repair) and now reads 7.6k

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Good to know. Of course coil offset has a lot to do with the tone character too - it would be cool to find out what the individual coil readings are.

As we know, in the PAF days they didn't go by turn count, they just wound them until the bobbins looked full. Which is why PAFs really are all over the place. More symmetrical bobbin combos were sweeter, more asymmetric ones were crisper, and occasionally there would be one where both were wound fairly high so you'd get a hotter output than most. Sometimes both bobbins would be wound light, and the pickup would be extra airy, with unusually great definition.

Like nearly all modern winders of PAF-type sets, ReWind puts extra turns on the bridge pickup. But unlike most, James also sometimes recommends that buyers try the hotter pickup in neck position.

Since the pickups for each guitar were randomly chosen from a box, it's very likely that about half of the original bursts came with the neck a bit hotter than the bridge, like Kossoff's.
 
Robert Herndon said:
I was running a Gibson Burstbucker Pro and a Thro-Bak SLE-101 for a while in my Von Herndon Doubleneck. I flipped the magnet on the BBPro and used it only for this solo, then changed the guitar back to a standard configuration. I must say that it had a very unusual sound.

Skip ahead to 2:52 to hear the OOP solo

https://soundcloud.com/id%3Drobert-h-herndon%252Ffall-to-pieces-cover-version-gahrs-re-mix%3Btrack_id%3D590558502
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I am really digging the guitar on this track.
 
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