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| 1988 Gibson SG Standard The SG on the left is the one I traded for a '79 Strat. For some reason whomever owned this guitar stripped all the paint off the back of the neck. There are some odd holes drilled into the front & rear of the headstock, so who knows what they were thinking? All that aside, this SG is my current favorite. It's even wired backwards! They always say that mutts make the best pets.This one ROCKS! |
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| 1981 Gibson Ripper I've always loved Gibson basses, but could rarely convince any bass players to use them. To hell with them! I got my own and it has the unmistakable, deep Gibson growl! |
| Guitars I Foolishly Sold Before They Skyrocketed In Price |
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99 SG Junior I found this at Willie's Vintage guitars (more later) and bought it and a Stratocaster right on the spot! It's a 1999 reissue of a 1968 SG junior. Gibson quickly discontinued these so they could put them under their "historic" division and charge HUGE amounts of money! This junior is heaven! It has a giant baseball neck and period correct hardware. O.K., so maybe it doesn't have the witch hat knobs and three on a side tuners. It does have the correct wrap around bridge and a smoking P-90! All that and much better bevels than you could find on a real '68. This is another guitar I would seriously recommend snapping up if you find one. Why pay $2000.00 for a 1968 when you can get one of these for $500.00 -$800.00. |
| 1959 Les Paul Custom. The '59 custom I had sported a split or a crack under the bridge. Anyway as I said I paid $300.00 for this guitar from a pawn shop & was convinced by Terry that it may not be real. This was early 80's & before the rage of 'weathering' guitars. Hell the PAF pickups would be worth $1000.00 or more. Oh well. The 1959 ES 330 on the right is like the 59 I purchased from Dominic Marazzo for $200.00 around 1982. This guitar was is such good condition that outside of the nickle hardware starting to dull, you would have thought this was a new guitar. There was not a playing scratch on it. I never played this guitar at a club because it had no strap button by the neck. I refused to put one on so the guitar sat in the closet until 1995 when I sold it for a tidy profit. I do miss it but still would not play it. See ya buddy! |
| (left to right) 90 Standard, 93 Special, 02 Junior, 58 Special, 06 Standard This '90 'burst came along & was very reasonable. It was so reasonable that I couldn't pass it up. I wish i would have saved the protector case. I then added the '93 Special (I wanted the T.V. yellow one but the White Knight got that one). Gibson just started reissuing them and even though it had p-100's it was a nice instrument. Next is my 02 Junior. This guitar really rocks! If you can, look for one. Gibson discontinued this model and reintroduced it as a heritage. For $1500.00 more! One of my favorite playing Gibsons! Next to last is a 58 Special RI that is way cool. Always wanted one. Now I have it! Lastly is an 06 Standard in Wine Red. It has a great AA top. I've wired it '50's style and used real '50's paper caps I rescued from a radio I restored. |
| Welcome to my Guitar pages! I hope you find something interesting to look at. I have, thankfully, managed to hang on to most of my stringed instruments over the years. Some have unfortunately been sold (foolishly) and others have been swiped! Drop me a line if you have any questions for as you know, everything is for sale! |
| I bought a 1963 SG Junior in Polara white in 1976 from my cousin Dan for $75.00. It included the original soft shell alligator case. What a great guitar! Unfortunately I traded this guitar & $75.00 in for a late '70's Fender Bronco. What a schmuck! Hey Tim Black, you should have stopped me! |
| I recently got the Flametop Les Paul on the left from Chris Nelson. He had forgotten he had it in his closet. Now it's mine! The Les Paul Special on the right is from 1997 and has a nice T.V. yellow that allows the grain of the mahogany to peek through. |
| 1981 Les Paul Custom (left) When these first came out I never cared for them. Especially the fact that Gibson applied the sunburst to the neck and back of the headstock. How time heals all! Although this fine Paul is heavier (10 lbs on the bathroom scale), it has the best tone of all my Pauls. Maybe it's the Tim Shaw humbuckers, who knows? I got it for a extremely great price. It's all stock, not a lick of solder has been touched and it has the great protector II case. For some strange reason this is another in a long line of guitars I have owned that have microphonic pickups. hmmm.. |
| 1966 SG Custom (left) Traded an old Strat to Cliff for this guitar. I love the old crappy white finish. I do think that SG's look best in white or Pelham blue. Very small pencil neck on this monkey. I am surprised that the neck or headstock has never been broken. It's just that small. Still overall, a great old vintage Gibson. It's too bad that prices on anything prior to 1982 stops the average musician from owning any equipment. The prices on all and I mean ALL instruments prior to that date is astronomical! Keep what you got. There are no deals anymore! 1965 Junior Finally!!!! After years of telling my story of the one that got away, I found another! Actually Cliff bought it and I rescued it from him before he sold it to someone else. I never noticed that white Juniors have bound necks. I don't remember my last one having one. Smoking axe! |
| The guitar below is a 1978 Gibson ES 335 I bought this guitar brand spankin' new. I had to get a job to pay for it and worked at Sear's coffee shop for $1.95 an hour. That was a lot of tables to clean off but I had a snazzy guitar. They tried to talk me into a ES 175 but I wanted to rock. At the time nobody my age understood what this guitar was when I told them I played a 335.. I would tell them "it's like Ted Nugent's" & they would say oh, OK. Very nice guitar, plus I've had it for ions! |
| 1963 ES 125! (left) I'm a sucker for archtops and this is a very nice example of Gibson's entry level archtop. All original! Brazilian rosewood, P-90's and sunburst. Oh, My! 1994 ES 135 (right) I love Gibson cherry finishes. Even though he never played one, I always feel like Chuck Berry when this one comes out. There you go, you are christened "Chuck" |
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| 1995 Gibson Flying (Nicky)V I already said this guitar was bought on the night my son was born. I added pup covers & rotated the controls so they made more sense to me. What a great light guitar to play. 1975 Explorer (right) Sad to say that the only original stuff on this Explorer are the tuners. Bought from GC where some jack hole took all the original parts off it and put replacements on. When it came time to sell, the original parts were mysteriously ..gone! Odd brown position markers on the side of the neck. |
| 1967 es 335 Just bought this guitar before they went up in price too much. It's unbeliveably clean. Pat # pups, Indian rosewood board, Kluson double ring tuners and fabulous color. Oh yeah , the case is bitching' too! |
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