Wanted - late 60s to early 70s Goldtop.

Here's the fake Les Paul

21 tone Jimmy Page harness, courtesy of Jersey Shore Guitar Garage, .012uf Orange Drop tone capacitors.

Bridge is a Planet Tone Afterburner 13k/A5

Neck is a Planet Tone 59 Special 7.8k/A2


This video should help to explain why everyone who plays the fake wants to buy it.

I've turned down a R8 for this guitar and cash offers of $1,500, but nothing feels or sounds quite as remarkable to me as this unusually great guitar.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I decided to go with something different as I was getting nowhere with above. I found a more locally sourced one with lots of checking and finish cracks with mini HB from 1973. Now, I get unpotted noise from older PUps but as these are HB are they not mostly hum free? Not like a P90. It gives me a different flavour.
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That sounds righteous. I really do like mini-hums for a different flavor. I've never found them to be any more noisy than a full size humbucker and as for potting, well, call me crazy but I would take the immediacy and focus of an unpotted pickup over a potted one every time, all other things being equal. Sure, they can get a little squealey here and there, but all it takes is just changing position on the stage and it goes away.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I decided to go with something different as I was getting nowhere with above. I found a more locally sourced one with lots of checking and finish cracks with mini HB from 1973. Now, I get unpotted noise from older PUps but as these are HB are they not mostly hum free? Not like a P90. It gives me a different flavour.
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Are you able to give it a test run?
 
Some might say why are you buying a guitar with all those cracks?
Again, weird tho it may be, I want something that looks and is 50 years old. The 76 I got a few years ago was a mint under the bed. which I really like. I just wanted something cool and used as I will never get my new guitars I bought to this state unless I live to be 120....
Such vanity...
 
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Jethro Rocker said:
My guitar I have had the longest will be 45 this winter. It has many dings etc but not even an elbow wear mark at the top overly. A little one. Yet I played the hell out of it for the first 30 years I had it. Not a nitro finish.

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Nice! @Sp8ctre has the 1987 Squire my bandmates bought for me in 1988 and its not scratched or dinged up, despite 28 years of daily use. There are some places where the paint is worn through on the back.

I grew up without a lot, so i take really good care of my stuff and i can't say i ever thought about how an instrument looking "dated" would be desireable, but its cool if you dig that look.
 
Inspector #20 said:
Nice! @Sp8ctre has the 1987 Squire my bandmates bought for me in 1988 and its not scratched or dinged up, despite 28 years of daily use. There are some places where the paint is worn through on the back.

I grew up without a lot, so i take really good care of my stuff and i can't say i ever thought about how an instrument looking "dated" would be desireable, but its cool if you dig that look.
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I try to. Even wear marks, tho.. one's arm eventually leaves wear marks on the upper bout. Small dings happen. Pick scratches. Pants buttons when I used to foolishly play with my shirt tucked in. Etc. 40 years of that and it gets some love marks.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I try to. Even wear marks, tho.. one's arm eventually leaves wear marks on the upper bout. Small dings happen. Pick scratches. Pants buttons when I used to foolishly play with my shirt tucked in. Etc. 40 years of that and it gets some love marks.
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I get that. Kinda why i decided not to shellac the Neck-Through SG project and just leave it bare wood with an oil stain.

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Jethro Rocker said:
Hey what's the diff between a Deluxe Custom and Standard at the time?
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By '73 they had reintroduced the full-hum Standard, and the only difference between the Standard and Deluxe was the pickups. The Custom that the reintroduced in '68 was the 2-pickup humbucker version and that was basically unchanged. Also, that would make yours a CMI guitar, not Norlin, which started in '74. Not that it makes any difference.
 
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