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altoidman

altoidman

aka McCartyman
A 1971 Gibson Les Paul Recording. This came from a relative so I won't be selling/trading it anytime soon. It's been in the family for a while...

Funky guitar. I need to repair that big plastic, ummm control guard :) Coincidentally, Gibson just reissued this guitar and I've read they are making 600 in 2014. Also supposedly the original early 1970's low impedance pickups were allegedly designed and built for Gibson by the company that went on to become EMG.

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Recording.aspx

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Elias Graves said:
So how's all that stuff work? What does it do?
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I don't know yet, but it has a 10 position rotary switch labeled 'decade' :grin:

It definitely has the switches and dials to get a metric shit ton of different sounds out of it. I haven't even plugged it in yet because of the input jack. Trying to figure out the best way to have a new plastic guard made for all of that. I reached out to a guy who has made custom pickguards for me in the past to see if he can make one from the original.
 
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Wow- you don't see many of those around- at least not where I live. Custom pickguard should do the trick. Any chance of audio/video of it?chears
 
Cool. I always fought of this as one of the ugliest LPs ever made, but the design has kind of grown on me over the years. It looks 70's hi-fi and would look awesome in my rumpus room. Cool that it has a family connection! I think the originals like yours are pretty rare guitars, and the association with Les Paul, should see them increase in value as time goes by. Seems like a definite keeper.
 
jp_nyc said:
Cool! You should ask Gibson to sell you a new guard. Maybe it would fit.
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The new one is a different design. They moved the output jack off of the guard (good decision) to the conventional Les Paul location.
 
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