Sunday, September 22, 2024

 


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  1. What is that, a chopped up Goldtop?

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    1. I had a similar question. Chopped up LP of some kind?

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    2. No chopping. She got left out in the cold a time or two. She'll still play and sound great.

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    3. That is literally the FIRST Les Paul.

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  2. It's not the lacquer cracking, it's the pick guard, the jack position, the knobs, the bridge, the vibrola thing.

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    1. That's what I was referring to when I said chopped up LP. Thank you for detailing.

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  3. I did a little research after seeing that the mid-position soap bar pickup had additional mods for pole pieces (it looks like). I found an article from 2021 with the headline: "On Wednesday, 13 October, Christie's in New York will auction the first mass-produced Gibson Les Paul model, which designer, guitarist, composer and inventor Lester William Polsfuss (Les Paul, 9 June 1915 - 12 August 2009) nicknamed "Number One" in 1952"

    So it's the first gold-top LP made for production (likely really more of a prototype) in 1952 designed by Gibson and Mr. Paul himself. It was expected to bring about $100-150k, but ended up selling for $930k. Doesn't say who bought it.

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  4. How cool is that, thanks for finding it, and I thought I knew a little about guitars.

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