Twin to my Les Paul found

[chilipeppermaniac]

I was perusing ebay and such for T Top pickups and came across a Les Paul KM that was made 10 guitars before mine that can be seen in my profile pic.

This one's serial ends in 059 and mine is 069. I doubt that anyone could find closer unless they went to Kalamazoo and got two of them at once on August 27, 1979.

 

[C-Grin]

Wow looks awesome. Did you bid on it ?

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Wow looks awesome. Did you bid on it ?

HECK NO. He wants $7500, says it is all original, but if he came in at $3k, I might be in.

 

[gball]

Damn that is a sweet guitar. Seller is obviously way too high on the ask, but it is probably worth about $5k right now.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Damn that is a sweet guitar. Seller is obviously way too high on the ask, but it is probably worth about $5k right now.

He is out there in LaLA land of Kal lee phornia, G.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Damn that is a sweet guitar. Seller is obviously way too high on the ask, but it is probably worth about $5k right now.

My LP came in a Red Lined case like my 76 SG did. His has the purple lined case like my first LP that I got 2nd hand back in around 83.

 

[67plexi]

Mark like the double white pickups the 1969 Gibson Deluxe I sold had the red lined case.

 

[gball]

My LP came in a Red Lined case like my 76 SG did. His has the purple lined case like my first LP that I got 2nd hand back in around 83.

My first '77 had the red lined. The second '77 I had came in a purple. My '79 came in one of those awful "protector" things - I sold it and bought a proper case for the guitar.

 

[Robb]

Absolutely great LP !!!

Here's a pic of a little sister of yours, I love this one :

 

[Jethro Rocker]

My first '77 had the red lined. The second '77 I had came in a purple. My '79 came in one of those awful "protector" things - I sold it and bought a proper case for the guitar.

The chainsaw case? I like mine! It will take multiple loading and unloading without getting all ratted up.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Mark like the double white pickups the 1969 Gibson Deluxe I sold had the red lined case.

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Steve, my buddy Ronnie has one of these LP's too. He tells of the day he cut school when he had finally earned enough money to make the last payment at the music store, so he could go get it the earliest possible.

 

[ivan H]

The chainsaw case? I like mine! It will take multiple loading and unloading without getting all ratted up.

I like the chainsaw cases too. My only gripe is they only have a small accessory compartment, no chance at all of fitting the 3" wide guitar strap in there. Cheers

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Absolutely great LP !!!

Here's a pic of a little sister of yours, I love this one :
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Awesome looking Burst, Robb.

Did you buy it new? What year is it? I've seen these before but never in person to actually play one. How long have you had it?

 

[Robb]

Bought it last year from Japan, it's an 1991 Orville made in Terada Japan.
It has the exact same specs as my 1975
Gibson Standard except for the pups witch are" The Original " HB-R and HB-L from Bill Lawrence on the Orville.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

I like the chainsaw cases too. My only gripe is they only have a small accessory compartment, no chance at all of fitting the 3" wide guitar strap in there. Cheers

HEY HEY Bro Ivan.

I am glad that I never had any guitars with a chainsaw case. After stupidly selling my original LP with the Purple Lined case. Much like Robert H. always never seemed to have any guitar measure up. I think that despite my quest to replace my original, none will never measure up. Even with a guitar costing the same, on up to 10- 20x what I paid for mine back in1983, I still don't think anything short of that exact broken in Black LP will suffice.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Bought it last year from Japan, it's an 1991 Orville made in Terada Japan.
It has the exact same specs as my 1975
Gibson Standard except for the pups witch are" The Original " HB-R and HB-L from Bill Lawrence on the Orville.

WOW, Robb.

My 3 knob SG has uncovered, Bill Lawrence HB- Circuit Board pickups in it.

 

[gball]

The chainsaw case? I like mine! It will take multiple loading and unloading without getting all ratted up.

I like the chainsaw cases too. My only gripe is they only have a small accessory compartment, no chance at all of fitting the 3" wide guitar strap in there. Cheers

Yeah, I hate the things. Have had two of them and I think they just suck. In both cases the top of the guitar's headstock touched the inside of the case, which to me is a big no-no. They are also unbearably ugly.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

I like the chainsaw cases too. My only gripe is they only have a small accessory compartment, no chance at all of fitting the 3" wide guitar strap in there. Cheers

I sometimes put a strap in my gig bag but got an SKB heavy duty case so I can get a genuine Well-Hung strap in it with wireless pack etc. That way whenever I rotate LPs for shows, I take em in the SKB.
Generally.

 

[Sapient]

Nice musical instruments and cases, fellows.