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THE 1959 BURST – A Les Paul documentary

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:10 +0000

This is a trailer for “The 1959 Burst”, a documentary film from MAXFILMCO. Winner of ‘Best Documentary Film’ at Hollywood FAME Awards and Phoenix Music Awards. Produced by Cynthia Huffman.

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1958 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 00691

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:42:37 +0000

One of the very last of the PAF Les Paul Standard Gold Tops and one of a very few ‘Dark Backs’. This solid mahogany body guitar with a carved maple top weighs just 8.80 lbs. One-piece mahogany neck with a medium profile, Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original frets and pearl crown position markers. With a handwritten letter, signed by Tom Murphy, which reads: “To whom it may concern, Regarding Gibson Les Paul guitar serial #8-2700The finish has been redone by me in a vintage style gold-top ‘dark’ walnut back, with subtle aging to match hardware to finish. All of the hardware, pick-ups, tuners, plastic, etc., are original to this instrument. The frets are original and untouched.” Original brown hardshell case (9.00).

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1991 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Reissue plus Elmwood Modena M-60

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:54:11 +0000

1991 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Reissue plus Elmwood Modena M-60 Amp plus recent Vox 2 x 12 Cab with Blue Bulldogs plus TC Nova Reverb
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Gibson Les Paul Custom

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:48:13 +0000

Here´s my Gibson Les Paul Custom from… (thats what I need/want to know), Made in U.S.A. serial #127732, body is in three parts, gold hardware… only change I did is the treble/bass plastic knob that originally was black, I lost it, and my store only had white (but its original), everything is as it came from store in Brussels (I belive..), my Uncle bought it, and after several years of use, he gave it to me when I was 14, now Im 28. Would love to get it dated and valued. Thanks in advance.

update: it seems of beeing from mid 69 and start of 71 somewhere in between. lets see if I come closer to the exactly date.

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Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul EX Electric Guitar

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:48:05 +0000

The Prophecy Les Paul EX electric guitar boasts a solid mahogany body with a glued-in mahogany neck and a LockTone Stopbar for excellent playability and tone.

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1960 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty 00964

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:38:16 +0000

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This medium weight Les Paul Custom weighs 10.70 lbs. and has a solid mahogany body with a slightly arched top. One-piece mahogany neck with a nice medium profile, a comfortable nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Ebony fretboard with 22 original thin frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. The top of the guitar has seven-ply binding, the back of the guitar has five-ply binding, the headstock has five-ply binding, and the fretboard has single white binding. Headstock with inlaid pearl “Gibson” logo and five-piece pearl split-diamond inlay. Two-layer (black on white) truss-rod cover with “Les Paul Custom” engraved in white. Serial Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with half-moon metal buttons. The serial number (“010513″) is inked in yellow on the back of the headstock. Three really hot PAF (double-black) humbucking pickups with very strong outputs of 8.16k, 8.14k, and 7.76k. Five-layer (black/white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus three-way selector switch on upper bass bout. Black plastic bell-shaped “Bell” knobs. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic non-retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated.The potentiometers are all stamped: “134 6043″ (Centralab October 1960). There is some very light belt buckle scarring on the back of the guitar (nothing down to the wood), a small piece of binding (1/2 inch) is missing from the edge of the headstock just above the “G” tuner. There are a couple of surface chips on the edges of the guitar, the most significant being on the treble-horn where there is also a small (3/4 inch) cut. A few tiny surface marks on the front of the guitar, and some very minor tarnishing to the gold-plated hardware. The original frets show little-to-medium wear. That all said, this totally original ’60 Custom — with a neck and a sound to die for — is certainly one of the finest that we have ever seen. At just over ten-and-a-half pounds It is on the medium-to-heavy side for a Custom – but the extra weight shows most positively in the sound. This is an amazing one-owner guitar in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition and this is the first time that it is being offered for sale. Housed in its original (very worn) Gibson black pebble-grain “black beauty” hardshell case with orange plush lining (7.50).

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Jimmy Page customized Gibson Les Paul SOUNDS!

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:37:46 +0000

Hello everybody!This is me trying to give a good sample of the sounds you can get by installing on your les paul the Jimmy Page Wiring.It’s very versatile and you can get different conbinations by four push/pull pots.Personally,I have 2 (the volumes) for coil split and other 2 (the tones) to reverse the phase.You can get close Telecaster sounds,brilliant and clear,Peter green out of phase an,obviously,Led Zeppelin. Guess what I use in these song,between full humbucker,single coil and phase reverse!Hope it can help to give you an idea of “hoe sounds”

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Epiphone Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:37:39 +0000

The Les Paul Custom electric guitar, part of Epiphone’s Special Run collection, comes in a limited edition Silverburst color and is often referred to as the ‘tuxedo.’ The guitar features a mahogany body and neck with a LockTone Stopbar Tune-o-matic tailpiece for a killer performance.

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An Introduction to the New Gibson 2008 Les Paul Standard

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:44:20 +0000

This is a video which explores the basic features of the new 2008 Les Paul Standard.

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Epiphone Les Paul Ultra-II Electric Guitar

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:44:11 +0000

Epiphone’s Les Paul Ultra-II electric guitar features a NanoMag low-impedance pickup embedded into the fingerboard and custom electronics for acoustic-like tones.

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