Hey guys my name is Tim, guitar is my favorite hobby, and I am a huge dipped in tone fan... Something about the chemistry.... And I always learn a lot and feel warm and fuzzy inside when I watch... Keep up the good work!
You have a great taste in podcast there timmy.. you wouldnt be related to the guitar guy named tim pierce who goes on rhetts channel sometimes woulda ya????😅
Interesting interview. I'm torn personally. I've got a hand aged (razor blade checking) goldtop, and I've played several ML and did a deep dive review of one on the channel. In many cases, the temperature induced checking can look amazing BUT I do really appreciate the artisan skilled labor side of the hand checked instruments. So much skill to make those, much more than throwing into a freezer and whatever else they do. Either way both products to me are akin to "functional art".
Much respect for the art work and skill involved in aging some of these guitars but I’ll take my Les Paul custom shop model shinny and brand new, thank you!
Tom does his side of this interview exactly the same with anyone who is interviewing him (like a script word for word so this is nothing new..) however the Dipped in Tone guys are involved this time so im all ears for this one! One of my favorite podcast channels, love you guys! So ill listen to him again! 🙃
Brittle lacquer is not a secret. I worked in a paint store and I come from a long line of wood workers. It's an art form but Tom always makes me laugh when he acts like cracking lacquer is a top secret process. Lacquer stays tacky for a very long time but there are things you can add to make it set fast and if you lay it down before the wood swells, Bob's your uncle.
Yeah, and those razor cuts??? Everybody is freezing real lacquer nitro now. He didn't invent that. The whole Murphy Lab thing is kinda funny. I saw them. using a BB gun and shooting the guitar, all the dents are identical size. Some of them just look awful, like a high school did it in his garage. Just an excuse to charge outrageous prices for mediocre guitars. The replica builders are way ahead of this stuff.
@@SDPickupsmediocre? Really? Like aside from the finish, you feel they are mediocre at best? Wow 😂 and what replica builders? Banker? Who? Cause if there are better replicas, I’d honestly like to check them out. I have several custom shops and USA Gibson’s. Everyone of them are absolutely incredible. I also have several nice Epiphones, some are absolutely incredible, but not on the same level of my Gibson’s USA or CS.
A little tip for you....The Japanese made Elitists Les Pauls ALL have Brazilian boards on them. And YOU BET it makes a big difference. I have 7 of those guitars and never selling any of them. Long tenon neck joints too, they ring like a bell. I upgrade all the hardware with vintage correct materials, our Four Uncles ABR1 replica, the only one in the entire world that are identical materials, custom mixed alloys, all of it. That bridge makes any LP sing with notes that are just mystical in what comes out of it. These guitars are numerous and only around $1200. Grover tuners, real abalone inlays, bone nut. Gibson quit making them because the quality exceeded anything Gibson does, they were TOO GOOD.
It's "stationery" when dealing with notes that you write. "E" for envelopes :-) Stationary when it's something not moving . Like a train at a station. :-)
@chrisquinn9104 No its not crazy heavy. 9ish lbs I saw something that said 96 was the 1st year. But the same thing also said not everything was recorded correctly back then. Mine was bought in Nov of 95 a Christmas Present. The recipt says so. Maybe a lil cooler officially they weren't out til 96 I guess
@chrisquinn9104 I was just looking at the serial number again it begins with 4. And when I got it the guy told me it was a 40th anniversary of the 54 and the historics were brand new. But it was the next year when I got it and I always say 95 cuz nothing said anniversary. But its a 94 actually.
I'd love to have Tom see the aging on my '69 Goldtop...it was also left in a freezing trunk while on tour in the 70's. (there's even vids of it on youtube back in '74...Tongue is the band, Paul Babbit lead guitarist.)
Aaron Draplin designed an incredible fuzz pedal, I grabbed one last year. Did Zach pick one up ? Have you seen them, it's a joint venture between Aaron Draplin and Hilbish Design. Very cool pedal.
I built a kit guitar and chose to do a Nitro (spray can) finish on it. Other than being a long, tedious process, the fishish did not turn out like I expected, but it is getting some interesting checking that is kind f cool.
His bank account is not doing too bad either! A lightly aged Murphy Lab' Les Paul sells for $8,000.00 and they sell several hundred a week, That is a hell of a profit!
To this day, I still use the phrase “OOOOF” because of Aaron Draplin. For those that don’t know, it’s hard to explain. It’s an expression of being impressed by something intensely, and not much else quite says the same thing. “That Murphy Lab SG OOOOF”.
Someday we won’t be able to tell which old guitars came that way and which “earned” the damage. I’m sure guitar center will always knock down the value, regardless
Great Chat . I would like to ask Tom about the Hardware and Electronics . Most electronics like wire , pots , type of metals used in the newer guitars is source from cheap crap . Video's showing old Gibson pots insides vs newer pots show just how much more quality the old stuff was made with . It don't make any sense that with all this evolution in engineering we can't recreate a guitar that was built in 1959 ?.....These companies have torn apart the wood and glue aspects of the build but rarely do you see videos trying to pinpoint the same wire , metals etc . Whats also crazy is the instrument "1959" is what's popular . The music is now a 2nd thought .... I'm guilty . I will watch a band because of the gear . Music is becoming a bi product . We live in crazy times .
Some newer 2023 necks are still flaking randomly. It seems the body is fine but some necks are extremely brittle and just fall off after a couple of hours
Gibson did not use "Hide glue" to attach the maple tops on the Burst guitars. They used PHENOL FORMALDEHYDE RESIN. IF they are using Hide glue to glue the tops then they are not historically accurate.
the MOST interesting thing about this interview is how everyone is trying sooo hard to avoid the word "relic" due to that particular term being "off brand",..LoL
Winter had a big effect on my guitars...3 truss asjustments, 4 fret dressing sessions, and that is just the 9-10 that are not in cases :/ and the tele I am building has yet to be put together...eventually :/...Thanks Zach and Rhett
Rhett is & lives as a "Low energy" kinda guy. & That's what enders him to live gigs where the artists don't want anyone to "Draw attention " to anyone but the featured artist. Brilliant ! Hey, Whatever pays the bills.
I feel bad for the people that fall for the bullshit Murphy lab marketing hype. If you want an accurate vintage spec’d Gibson than send your guitar to “Historic Makeovers”. They use the actual methods that Gibson used in the 1950’s to finish their guitars. Much much higher quality than anything the “Murphy Lab” has ever produced.
These guitars are supposed to be the best you can possibly buy before Mr Murphy and his crew work on them ! Seems to me Gibson are taking lots of players for fools ! Why not just immerse the instruments in the vat of snake oil that Gibson obviously keep , that should age them !!!
