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Inspector #20

Inspector #20

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I had one and liked it, but it had a humped fretboard and a neck angle that would require resetting.

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This is a lower end Les Paul, officially known as a 50's Tribute. These have no binding and the backs are spray can black with very rough wood grain visible. These have the 50's style neck profile, known by internal Gibson terminology as a '951.'

I'm not looking to buy one online. I'm in hopes a member might be able to look one over in person for me at some point, or may already have one on hand.

I'm also fine with a bare husk. Stratosphere is totally sold out at the moment.

Thanks...
 
 
I actually still kick my own ass for letting go of a 60's Tribute. If I would have kept it I probably wouldn't have got the Classic. But I do love it.
Remember when Gibson would blow out guitars at the end of the year? $550 a piece...easy flip. :sadwave:
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and with a little virtuoso polish they will shine up some.
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Robert Herndon said:
I had one and liked it, but it had a humped fretboard and a neck angle that would require resetting.

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This is a lower end Les Paul, officially known as a 50's Tribute. These have no binding and the backs are spray can black with very rough wood grain visible. These have the 50's style neck profile, known by internal Gibson terminology as a '951.'

I'm not looking to buy one online. I'm in hopes a member might be able to look one over in person for me at some point, or may already have one on hand.

I'm also fine with a bare husk. Stratosphere is totally sold out at the moment.

Thanks...
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@Mitch Pearrow SJMP has posted a few videos recently with a gold top tribute. Sounds great to me!
 
Well. My plan was to build a Kris Derrig replica, but B.Hefner folded during the pandemic....so, I thought maybe baxe the build on a studio or 50's tribute...
 
One of my LP types was luthier-built but used CNC-cut wood from Bulldog.
Real 50s style neck carve: big chunky C profile, long tenon neck joint.
I don't think Gibson's so-called 50s models actually use a 50s type neck.
AFAIK only the R-series and other Heritage models have them.
 
I'm starting to poke around again and looking for one of these 50's Tribute Gold Tops. They are a lower level guitar, without binding and the backs of the guitar are painted black and the wood grain is visible through the paint.

I've shopped for a husk online and also a few locally, but haven't come up with anything.

I'd like to maybe trade my 2019 Schecter Hellraiser C1FR Transparent Purple Burst, so I'm hoping to find one in the hands of a player as opposed to buying one outright online.

I did find one at a shop in Collierville Tennessee for $1,100.00, which seemed like a decent price to me.

I'm out of wall space and guitar hangers and I've been donating a lot of stuff to the music academy and/or younger players to play it forward and make more room.

I have enough Genuine Gibson parts to fully outfit a husk - should one present itself.

I'm no longer worried about the common wavy fretboard (all 5 of my new Gibson's had this, some worse than others) because I am confident that I can plane and refret a neck now.

I'll likely sand all the black off the back of the guitar down to bare wood and apply linseed oil. If you haven't owned one, the black paint is very sticky and feels like a latex base. You can leave a thumbprint in it that disappears the next day.

I also have a long shaft 21 tone wire harness in reserve, several sets of Gibson pickups, Grover tuners, bridges, misc hardware, switch and cavity covers, pickguards and screws sufficient to build a guitar if needed.

I think I'm at a point in my skill set where I'm able to correct all the inherent problems I experienced with my new Gibson's, so I'm going into this fully aware that I'm gonna have to fix things to make it a working guitar, dependable enough to earn a living with.

It would be nice to have a genuine Gibson after years of chasing them unsuccessfully. I know that's foolish, but it's honest.

Again, I'm in no great hurry and really can't justify a $1,000+ purchase right now (following a two bathroom remodeling project) but I know you guys have far more exposure to human beings and guitars than I do, so I thought I would put a bug in your collective ears.

Thanks...
 
My tribute is not painted black on the back, it’s the same transparent brown as it is on my Traditional.
But Robert already knows that I am not willing to part with it, it was my first Gibson LP.
Plus with as many times as I had to go and buy it back from the pawnshop, because of Scott needing gas money I now have over 2,000 tied up in it.
Cheers
 
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