Awesome review! 0:56 that's my specific warranty card to my Harvest Gold! I posted that pic of it in the Les Paul forum when I purchased the guitar forever ago. I still have it. 2:55 that's my '83 silverburst with my '81 Harvest Gold. My wife can't believe she's seeing them in the video. Too 😎🤘
I think there would definitely be a market for a reissue of that color with modern paint technology. That's a fantastic instrument Austin. God bless and rock on 🎸😎👍
Your historical knowledge is impressive these days. Thanks for informing us about these awesome guitars. Can’t wait for your museum to come into existence.
This is right. It was TV white because it looked white on TV. An actual white Gibson would have washed out everything around it, you wouldn't even be able to see knobs or pickups on a pre white guitar on black and white tv.
This is a classic example of Gibson's fine craftsmanship. Making the front of the headstock match would top everything off perfectly. I love gold tops and this gold burst is a keeper!...Great demo, Austin!
Beautiful guitar...I had a harvest gold Les Paul back in 88...bought it at Mr Music back in Allston, Mass, when I was a student at Berklee...still have the store branded guitar strap they gave me as a gift with the purchase .
I came here to say this. BUT I saw a documentary with Les and Mary, his black Tuxedo Les Paul disappeared in the black Tuxedo he was wearing and that’s why TV yellow was made. True or not? I don’t know, but it makes sense.
Shoutout to my harvest Goldburst neck at 2:21! It’s my favourite guitar by far and was a cool thing to see it in one of Troglys videos. This guitar was purchased in 2011 in Sydney,Australia by me as id never seen that colour before and I was really curious about it. Mine has flip out tuners and came with posi locks too.
I just bought my first Gibson Les Paul , it’s a 2017 Tribute , only gave $500 for it and it’s in awesome shape. Didn’t have the original soft case they came with but it did come with a Gator hardshell case with pink on the inside along with the silk cover. I’m satisfied with it. But I thought I was coming up with something new , because I was gonna try to get a gold burst custom Les Paul until I googled it and seen they’re a rare color but had already been made. I had seen silver burst but this was the first time I saw gold burst better known as harvest gold. Beautiful guitar in my opinion. 👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️
Hello Austin. You are wrong about the initials being from who did the fret work, Since the 60's Gibson has always made complete fretboards and then glued them on later in the process. You can watch a Gibson made documentry for 1967 that will show this process on youtube.
I have a friend who owns a 1983 Gold Les Paul Custom. He bought it new and it’s finish turned green years ago. He played it for years but retired it 20 years ago. He had it routed out for a Kahler tremolo but now wants it restored. Any suggestions as to who could do the work? 🎸🇺🇸
What's the 411 on maintaining Gibson Vintage Gold Hardware? - What do you use to clean Gold HW without removing the plating? Jewelry Cleaner - Is there a good shop in the US to restore and electroplate Vintage Gold Guitar HW? Electroplating at home is a pretty easy DIY. Maybe a local Jewelry Repair Shop can do it.
i have an original 81 les paul custom cherry burst. i bought it used in 91 i replaced all the black plastics with blonde gibson parts i got from gruhn guitars, and put the gold knobs on it. replaced the gibson pickups with dimarzios paf and super distortion. ace frehley style. better guitar looks and sound all round. course i still have all the original parts. mine has the flip out winders as well. love them.
I like my Les Pauls with cream colored plastics but black plastic looks killer on these.. lol I'm commenting on the Trog's guitar (Gibson) channel of which I've finally become a fan.. got over my jealousy issues on wanting all dudes guitfiddles..
😊 ❤ Almost as nice sounding as my 1981 Kalamazoo Standard Tobacco Burst Tim Shaw work of art & sound I'll never find another one like it again. It's been in a few Vevo videos & OTHERS. I will Never get rid of it!!! I've had many offers but it's all mine. I will pass it down to my youngest son. It has one of a kind tone. Thanks for this excellent video.
I know I'm really critical about hoarders and everything but I gotta tell you something buddy you are fascinating to listen to because it's cool to listen to somebody that knows all the stuff about these things keep up the great work
Would be great if Gibson could figure out a way of getting really close to the same finish and do a new Harvest burst line. That metal tin on my Studio won't come out on its own. I loosened the screws and using the actual screws I pulled it out by the holes so I don't do any damage to the surrounding areas.Getting it back in is trickier since it is so tight . And then there is blindly getting the screws where they belong.
Seeing as you brought up Bill Kelliher I was hoping to hear you bust out some Blood And Thunder. It's also almost the same color as the color Les Paul he's playing in his pictire on Wikipedia.
I know the orange peel is a flaw, and it's unfortunate that it can't really be played But I really love the way it looks. I wish they could fix it while keeping the color the same.
So, in many forms, Gibson has a long history of quality control issues since its inception. What was the biggest issues with the paint jobs? Experimentation with paint, bad preparation, bad nitro? Seems that after many years they’d get better results.
George Gruhn told me that in the 1990s he took in a fake Les Paul. At that point he had been selling guitars in Nashville for almost 30 years. If he can take in a fake LP, I think I can safely point out that none of us know everything!
I think one of these just hit marketplace in my area, I’d love to send you a pic of it to verify. Also a 84 Explorer designer series white with the gold ribbon and early 80s all white V. I need answers trogs how do I send you pics?
I was about to say the same thing. On a black and white TV white guitars tended to produce an unpleasant contrast glare, the simple solution to this was to use non-white light colours, such as yellow, pale blue, etc., however on the TV these colours appear white, hence the term TV yellow or TV blue.
A sister of mine - but with much better preserved color. The finish is super fragile - the back of the neck is flaky as hell. But the greenish relic on the top looks super cool on mine. Yours doesn't seem to have the cool flip out tuners but that's about the only difference.
That is a beautiful Les Paul and I really like tue finish! A rare piece to be in that kind of shape. You'll be hard pressed to find a nicer example I'm sure. This one sounded great btw!
"TV Yellow" has absolutely nothing to do with the color of television cabinets. It was an attempt to make a guitar appear white on a black and white television orf the era.
Paint technology was changing rapidly in the late 70's and early 80's, and going from solvent based to acrylics caused headaches not only for guitars, but especially automobiles. Think of how badly and quickly the clear coats disintegrated. Not enough research to begin with, I'd proffer.
It is Harvest Gold. My buddy Stanley bought one new from Rhythm City in Atlanta when it was bran new. I drove him there to get it. I bet he still has it but it is right handed so who cares.
TV yellow is because of black and white tv's. White appeared on the television like you couldn't see it it's hard to explain. They made them TV yellow so you could see them when the player was on television
