Love seeing the shot of this guitar along with its “relatives”. Also super cool that you have not only the first super custom, but Les Paul’s own guitar! Love the show Austin!
Worth it! Beautiful!! In 79 I was 27. I've got a lot more dings and scratches on me in the same 44 years. That guitar has character with the dings and scratches and to think Les Paul himself could have put some of those there. Don't complain young man.
I think the guitar looks gorgeous and sounds very good and clear - Something I imagine Les would have liked. It would be great if you could get a bit more history on it. Thanks
Firstly, congratulations on finally snagging your current SUPER RARE Les Paul find with amazing provenance Austin! Secondly, the shielding base plate stamp is my birthday! Yet despite its flaws, to me (and probably you too) the historical value of this piece in the terms of all things Gibson and the Les Paul model is the same as or equal to nothing short of priceless. Truly an astoundingly beautiful milestone of a guitar. Onward to the next hunt! Right on and collect and assemble for the museum on! \m/
I have a 1979 Les Paul Standard that came with P90s and pankake mahogany body, maple top, maple neck and ebony fretboard. At some point, someone had gutted it and put in Super Distortions, which frankly look and sound incredible and will never leave the guitar. The only thing i did was add treble bleeds and swap the magnets for double thick, short Alnico 5 and it did exactly what i wanted - smoothed the highs without loosing any beef. It's my favorite guitar sound ever. There's something about a Les Paul with an Ebony Fretboard and Maple neck. Still has the chunk, but an added 8khz-10khz brightness and complexity without being overbearing. It is an absolue juggernaut in tone. If the pickups in this lack some beef, an easy, reversable thing would be to swap the magnets for Alnico 6 (yes, 6!) or Alnico 8. Either will give you more mid push and that gentle alnico compression
The model you're describing is the "Pro Deluxe" - Neal Schon's famous "first floyd Les Paul" started as one of those too and was also routed for humbuckers
If you pull the output jack out and spray it out with electrical contact cleaner and lubricant..and you can squeeze the contacts back together to make better contact
Man, what a Beaut! Good for you man, really can’t wait till you finally open up this museum. Myself and two other guitar geeks will be certainly planning a road trip once it gets underway Trogmeister 🤙
This is a beautiful guitar that you can play and not worry about getting a little ding, with all the Murphy Labs fake aged guitars this is a real survivor, it is hard to understand why an apology for its condition is needed. I love the wood binding and added wood appointments, the less plastic the better.
I think the harmonica bridge (especially paired with a TP-6 tailpiece) looks awesome! That bridge design on maple neck black beauty with super 400 inlays, jumbo frets, T-top in the neck and Dirty fingers in the bridge and Les Paul Axcess back contours would be my perfect Les Paul
Hey Austin, congrats. My opinion, with some wear on the guitar it lends itself to be played! Not only as a collector piece. If you chased and lusted over this thing for years, I would agree the condition would be somewhat of a disappointment but now you can play the darn thing with out worrying a bout a ding or a small sctrach here and there. Enjoy it, my friend, as someone in the past has already!
My friend if I were you I would never get rid of that guitar but there is only one other above that one that you would probably want and it was in a music store in Gulfport, Mississippi many years ago, it was one of six Les Paul's that Les Paul himself had hand carved and put 24-karat gold pick up playted pickup covers on it, it had real mother of pearl in the neck and it was an extra thin Neck it was a very unique looking guitar and they turned down eleven thousand dollars, $11,000.00 for it . Mr Samuel Fitch on the Gulf Coast collected Gibson's and martins and he offered them $10,000 and they wouldn't take it I wish I could remember the name of the music shop I know where it was located in the Hardy Court shopping center I just can't think of the name of that music store, but yes they had an advertisement it was in a glass case nobody could touch it and they said it was only one of six Les Paul's like it in world, and that Les Paul himself hand carved this guitar it was very unique looking and if I ever meet anybody else that knows where that guitar ended up at I will let you know. Also right up the street from it pinkston's music store in Biloxi on the pass road had their music shop and their special guitar was a non-electric guitar and they wanted close to a million dollars for it, it had a picture of Glenn Armstrong inside a glass case and people can only see it they couldn't touch it and it had real moon dust enclosed with it they said that Mr pinkston was a personal friend of John Glenn Armstrong and that Armstrong took that guitar to the moon and brought it back with him. The people at the chancery vault in Biloxi, Mississippi could tell you who inherited his estste. Mr pinkston Died last year I believe, iand the store was closed, Christie's could probably auction that guitar and the picture and the moondust off for $100,000,000.00
Congrats, she's a beauty and soul ds amazing. I have to say as a long time subscriber ... your guitar playing has come a long way. You sound great, man!
I so enjoyed this episode! I am a Norlin lover, and have one, a 1979 Les Paul Custom, heritage cherryburst, in some kind of fantastic condition, purchased through Olivia's. I also have an amazing Riverside Red 97 LPC Catalina, purchased from CME, who get me the best guitars! I have mainly strats and at my age, I'm starting to think about what will become of my collection. I'm leaning toward a music school or something. Love ya Trogly - you are good for the instrument I love!
Any idea what model buzz osbourne of the Melvin’s plays. Black looks like a custom no coil split switch no harmonica bridge super 400 inlays and custom headstock inlay.
I choose to believe Les was smitten with this strawberry blonde beauty enough to leave it with some mild scarring. Perhaps wishful thinking, but, maybe not.
Said it before but do you wear UV safety glasses when using the blacklight? If not you might want to consider it and tell your viewers to do the same. Protect your eyes.
Probably just the camera used for the shot over exposed. It would've been "newer" at that time so the regular binding material/finish would've been less aged and he modded his to have cream/white plastics from the stock black.
Did Les Paul maybe play with high action on purpose cos that harmonica bridge situation is strange af. Trogly breaking so many of his own rules and then he mentions Les played it and it's like oh yeah he's gonna put up with a lot on that bad boy and still be super happy.
This guitar reminds me of an old Harley that was ridden hard and put away wet. All the luster of the sound when it was a newer guitar seems to have been worn away with age. I feel sorry for trogly if he paid 50 grand for this thing. I'm sure he can get his money back out of it from some collector that's not a player. But damn that's an expensive piece of kit.
I would've left the harmonica bridge on. Looks fantastic with it. Really don't think it would affect the sound. Love this unique burst, almost a tri-burst. Definitely would like to see Gibson start making LPs with wooden binding as an option.
The "reissue" maple body one is 10.5lbs - not too bad! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qGcDGu2przs.html&ab_channel=TheTrogly%27sGuitarShow
It's beautiful. I would never play it. That would be put in a place of honor on my wall. I would be worried id fuk up something lets owned. Plus the color omg so nice.pure eye candy.
The thing is back in the 70’s and 80’s those and the LP artisan are so heavy and cumbersome they weren’t that desirable. I passed on many of those special LP’s 25/50’s . The players always were the standards and customs. Cool to have sit around I guess but I would never take that on the road to play shows with. Just too heavy. Cool but not for me.
That is a fantastic looking guitar sadly out of reach for most of us peasants but who knows i haven't checked my lottery tickets yet......no, not this week.Damn.
