Original Owner Sells Me His Custom Color 80s Gibson! | 1984 Gibson Explorer Custom Color

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Usually, there is absolutely nothing worthwhile on my Facebook Marketplace, but I was surprised when I saw this custom-color Gibson Explorer from 1984 listed by its original owner show up. I drove up to Michigan to meet up with him and sealed the deal. I paid him more than a dealer was offering him and I'm happy to add it to my personal collection.
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@Trog Год назад

Merry Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful day and can sit down and relax while enjoying this tale 🟢My Website: www.troglysguitarshow.com 🔴Reverb: reverb.com/shop/troglys?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly ❓Private Help Sessions: troglysguitarshow.com/help-appraisals/

@Studio_940 Год назад

So much better a video than usual. Sure enjoyed the personal feel of this one. I do enjoy this channel though. Merry Christmas

@wriglarzzz Год назад

I wonder if the magnets aged because I've never heard such a good sounding ceramic pickup? What an awesome guitar. To be honest I think you heated up your pot too much and that's why the volume doesn't completely shut off. If it was a take off it increases your chance. I always throw out and solder new. Cleaning the tip, then pre soldering the tip, allowing the gun to heat up and prescratching the pot helps (if new) because it's prewaxed. It definitely seemed like you had a swimming pool of solder and that also increases your chances of a bad contact. Merry Christmas!

@mistreated Год назад

That’s was really neat! The wife and I loved the story. Merry Christmas to your family

@liamcolemanguitar Год назад

austin i have an 84 les paul which i believe to be all original and it also as the grind mark underneath the Tp in the exact pattern which is a perfect mach with the other chrome and has the right shape so i really don’t think it was swapped , just wanted to throw it out there 👍

@hoilst265 10 месяцев назад

Me: "How does Trogly afford all these axes?" Trogly: *buys 87 octane gas*

@gilwood7530 Год назад

Beautiful find ! That guy seems really cool . If you were his neighbor you'd never expect him to have that guitar.

@aziznsp Год назад

Learned something from this episode : always check your neighbor if he has a guitar.. Especially the senior one😆

@tommynyr Год назад

And a BC Rich with a Kiss graphic hanging on his wall, huh?

@abdullahmohammady7568 Год назад

He was a liar though

@flamingseven8447 Год назад

@@aziznsp Im 70 years old and my guitars rock.

@RokDAWG1 Год назад

I actually really like this guitar! The cleans surprised me.

@RokDAWG1 Год назад

@Topher Taylor Haha eye see what you did there!

@benallmark9671 Год назад

He seems like a great man. Kinda guy that you’d enjoy spending time with and listening to his stories. I bet he has some great ones. Merry Christmas y’all.

@The_Rude_French_Canadian Год назад

I like those videos with the person selling being included in the video and the stories it adds! Merry Christmas everyone!

@martinjames6148 Год назад

Me too, adds an extra element to the guitars.

@DoubleDguitar Год назад

This is great. Love that he is getting an HO set, always had friends that set them up at Christmas. Merry Merry, to all the Troglodytes.

@KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld Год назад

it's just nice to see trogly play with his children. i bet he is a cool dad

@sgt.grinch3299 Год назад

Merry Christmas to each of you. Happy birthday baby Trogly.

@hughjarrse Год назад

Happy Christmas🙂

@andye3684 Год назад

Same to yous

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

Right Back at You Sarge Thank You

@adrianr2312 Год назад

Likewise, Sgt!

@FrehleyBurst9-1878 Год назад

Austin, could that be the "Regal" Blue color that I asked you about? It was listed as a Gibson color option for the XPL series of Gibson guitars from 1984-87. I have not been able to find a color swatch/sample anywhere online or even most of the big vintage guitar shops across the US haven't been able to find an example to share with me. It appears to be a VERY RARE color option from that era. Let me know if you think that's the color as it's the only one I have never seen of the 8 color options for the XPL in 1984.

@iamtheotterofmeownfeet8334 Год назад

I was just checking out my old Union Jack Explorer that I sold a few years ago. Mine was from the same day but a few numbers after. My first impression was that was a designer series because of the configuration of the knobs. Might be able to help with your investigation. As for the tailpiece, mine had the same kind of marks on the bottom of it. That is original. They did not have the same fit and finish that more pricy explorers had or have. Just thought it was cool I happened on this video and got so close to the guitar I used to own just a few numbers off.

@dikinebaks Год назад

What a beautiful episode. Merry Christmas, Trog!

@chrisruef9221 Год назад

The distorted tone is one of the best I've heard on any of your demos! I want to play Bellz on this guitar.

@david25876 Год назад

That sound like gem. Really nice sustain and tones all around. Sweet!

@TheNewRevolution Год назад

I can't decide which I'd rather have more....the Explorer.....or that train set! I tell this tale quite often but the best guitar I had was an Explorer. I think it was a late 70s. All natural finish with all gold appointments. I loved that guitar. It was stolen from my house in 2004. I lost the notebook where wrote the serial number down. I checked every pawn shop in Lexington for months afterwards but it never turned up. I'd give almost anything to get her back. But after almost 20 years I know I'll never see her again. 😔

@chrisjohnson9300 Год назад

Happy birthday to your son and Merry Christmas to you and your family Trogly! As to the seller wanting to buy a train set, personally not a train guy but hey, whatever makes you happy, enjoy yourself!! Great episode!

@joermnyc Год назад

The vertical checking only on alder bodies could be from whatever they were using to seal the wood prior to finishing. Nitrocellulose lacquer reacts to everything in so many odd ways.

@supafrogg258 Год назад

Glad I checked this out! Your Explorer purchase reminds me of a guitar purchase of mine year's ago, on which I got a really nice deal. I didn't need it, but just liked the way it looked. It is the cheaper, econo-line, bolt-on neck, model of B.C. Rich's Explorer-inspired "splash"-shaped (can't recall name) 6-string electric. It has an almost identical metallic blue finish to that of yours. It has a Strat-style spring-loaded vibrato bridge, uncovered humbucking pickups, and heavy neck-dive (oh, well!). Normally, I'm not drawn to wild solid body guitar shapes. But, to me, there is something sexy about this model's shape, especially in photos I seen of this model finished in white. That's why someday I'd like to refinish it in white.

@DavidHBurkart Год назад

Probably my favorite video. Good to see your family interaction Austin, as well as such an entertaining seller. Great find and those pickups are outstanding. Awesome guitar.

@supersonicnomad8437 Год назад

Very interesting how you changed power chords with alternate fingers at 16:53. I heard chord changes but didn't see your hand move and I was like...hold up, rewind lol. A very cool and efficient way to do so! Right on!

@Trog Год назад

"Spider" Chords ala Mustaine

@supersonicnomad8437 Год назад

@@Trog NICE! Thanks Austin.

@scottcalloway4630 Год назад

I watched that part several times. I had mentioned in an earlier video that I was a bit "annoyed" with Trog because he was cutting away from showing his playing to overlaying reel shots of the guitar. This little playing trick is something that I would have missed out on if he would have done that in this video. I watch this channel for the guitars and the little riffs and runs that are played, this is a perfect example as to why. Thanks Trog for going away from the "cut away" editing!

@wendellwatson4464 Год назад

Love explorer's, and to find a blue one is awesome and in your area too . Merry Christmas

@markcampbell7554 Год назад

This is a very nice looking explorer. My absolute favorites are the more recent one's with the bound neck's but this is really nice.

@ahguitar9965 Год назад

Surprised it doesn’t have a kahler!

@yestoES355 Год назад

Merry Christmas Trogly. It’s nice to see you and your kids. I hope you and your family have a great holiday season

@jefffixesit60 Год назад

Nice piece, nice multiple birthday connection! I'd agree with your guess on the color, but not sure that it's originally meant to be a Union Jack, since the headstock isn't painted blue. A mystery for sure, thanks for showing us this one. Merry Christmas!

@aaronwebb1548 Год назад

Could be, do you know of any original runs with this blue colour? I'd have assumed that the headstock is completely painted blue and that black is overlaid.

@EvilHomer1973 Год назад

I had an black 86', same style, but mine had an ebony board and the finish was thin. You could see the grain through the paint.

@thatdrewrivers Год назад

It's the Union Flag. It's only called the Union Jack when flown at sea. Just a bit of trivia for you :)

@thedailyhate5214 Год назад

absolutely wishing nothing but the BEST for this fellow and his train set. right on buddy! follow your passion!

@tallpaul1020 Год назад

Merry Christmas Trog. You and your family have a great day 🎄🎸🎄

@hostilerampage Год назад

I have 3 explorers but did away with the pickguards and took the eddie van halen route so it was cool when they did away with the pickguard but then changed the toggle and knobs. so for me it was one step foward and two steps back and I never got one. if they just did like hamer and dean it would be very cool. but they most likely did that for time and ease so I get it...sort of. btw my profile pic is a hamer standard

@trevorbacon23 Год назад

I've had 2 separate New Gibson guitars from the 80s with the same tailpiece with the same grinder marks on the underside... I would say that is stock

@joepasco1420 Год назад

Reminds me of the time I was making $3.25 an HR. In 1980. I saw a 1978 Ibanez artist 2617 model in tobacco sunburst. I almost starved buying that guitar. Still got it too.

@jameshughes6049 Год назад

Merry Christmas all!!! Hope everyone enjoyed their day. Now a perfect way to end the day with a cool Gibson Explorer.

@alleycat4463 Год назад

I have a 2016 Explorer and the pickups aren't double slotted on the poles , but have the same reading when I ohm them out . They have a great , powerful sound . I'm wondering if they're Dirty Fingers ? My V says Dirty Fingers on the pickups and checks/sounds the same .

@musicauthority9939 Год назад

I was going to purchase an ES 335 that was all blue. in fact I believe it was the identical same shade of blue. it was double bound, and the blue looked really good with the white binding. but I got busy and sidetracked and it got away back into the wild. I still kick myself in the ass for that one.

@GreggRoberts Год назад

I came across a weird Explorer from the 80's today on Craigslist. A section down where the pots would be has been sawed off. It is a custom shop edition so Gibson cut that section off. It has the original dirty fingers. But it has a kahler tremolo. It's on the Detroit area craigslist.

@ryanfulldark2775 Год назад

Never did I ever think I'd see Trogly running in a video! More of these types of vids, please!

@AnniversaryEffect Год назад

Awesome guitar and episode! The color really reminds me of the blue that was later used on the 2011 Gibson Melody Maker series.

@fju1107 Год назад

An Explorer is on my wish list. This is a nice one and from a great year. Nice to get a glimpse of Trogly out and about with his Trogly babies!

@ernieb3626 Год назад

Merry Christmas Austin. I hope Those young ones had a wonderful day. Keep up the great work..

@dhannegan Год назад

My (almost) dream guitar. So many "plain jane" explorers out there. Would love to have this one.

@danielmargolis3210 Год назад

We think about trains a lot around here.

@leviathan_is_me Год назад

Thank you for doing an Explorer!! LOVE them so much.

@mjeh1 Год назад

That one sounds fabulous! Merry Christmas!

@Techead78 Год назад

Look out for toy train peeps. They have an insane passion for the hobby.

@cataclysmicconverter Год назад

They build houses just for them!

@clarkbabin9799 Год назад

In all my years of working in the telecommunications field I came across 2 customers that had HO scale trains at up . One was about the size of the one we just saw here. The other was in a building behind the guys house in a room that was about 16 x20 at least. It was wall to wall and you had to crawl under into the middle to see the whole thing .

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

Merry Christmas Clark 🎄🎅🏻🎁 Very cool, the detail they get into is amazing. When I was a kid our neighbor (a Lineman for Ma Bell) had a very large train set in the basement. The whole wall folded down to revel what had to be a very expensive setup. It was cool, Engine Headlights worked and some of them even made smoke (on purpose).

@clarkbabin9799 Год назад

@@hkguitar1984 Merry Christmas

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

@@clarkbabin9799 Thank You Clark I'm taking advantage of this holiday time off to work on my Son's '66 RI Jazzmaster (JMB). Fun and relaxing times for sure. Enjoy it while we can as 2023 is going to be a very rough year for many. (just my non-expert $.02 Cents) 😉 Be Well and Stay Safe Clark

@clarkbabin9799 Год назад

@@hkguitar1984 thank you my friend I hope the new year proves to be a better year for you.

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

@@clarkbabin9799 👍😉

@PetParadiseVB Год назад

I love this channel. My ladies and kids yell out ‘NERD’ when they hear the jingle lol. And then they watch it with me.

@monmixer Год назад

My Explorer has a few nicks in it. I played it a lot but I'm a light player. .09 gauge strings. ,10 sometimes but mostly .09. I did wear the switch out but I only played this guitar for about 12 years and since then it has mostly been in the case.EDIT: Bought in 1980.

@ericbgordon1575 Год назад

That blue finish is exactly the one I had in mind for a guitar model I would have had homemade but in a diamond shape. Concept for it is something I believe I have mentioned here before, made of polycarbonate instead of wood, chambered like a thin line model, including three P90 pickups and synonymous fingerboard scale and electronics with the guitars built by/for Brian May. Since I just purchased an electric guitar for myself to round out 2022, I have sidelined this idea indefinitely.

@Loki_FPV666 Год назад

Personally my favorite style of Explorer. Epiphone made a 1984 model Explorer a while back that was that style but came with EMGs.

@jasonwright7513 Год назад

Merry Christmas Austin glad you got another nice explorer I think it sounds great probably just needs a new bridge volume pot and it'll be 100%. Looks like somebody did some work on it that did not really know what they were doing. They might have needed to replace the input jack (tin can looking thing) because they are notorious for failing with the early 80s models.

@rider132 Год назад

Nice job on a very nice episode Trogs. I have a 1985 EXP 425 that I purchased new as a demo discount. Still have it. The quality control wasn’t the best, the volume knob on mine was supposed to be a coil split but acted like a kill switch. I used as a kill switch for years not knowing what it was really for. Oh well. Nice find. Cheers to you and your family.

@livelikeus4980 Год назад

Cool dude! I have an N scale myself.

@vincentrockel1149 Год назад

You need a pignose or some other battery powered amp for on site test purposes.

@Big_betty2 Год назад

You should do more vlog type videos. It’s cool seeing YOU in the videos a little more

@paulsadoff3661 Год назад

Great to put a face to the original owner of that guitar . Great story.

@vansongs Год назад

Great episode. Loved seeing you playing with your kids.

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

LOL 18:40 "We're just waiting for you to click"

@postaldelivery6867 Год назад

Happy birthday to your son Trogly. What an amazing Christmas episode

@leahcaudill6559 Год назад

Merry Christmas, to all!

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

Merry Christmas Leah 🎄🎅🏻🎁

@SH-fm5eu Год назад

I have an 81 Destroyer I bought in 82 in that color, Corvette Stingray Blue.

@buzzbomb67 8 дней назад

I used to have a 1984 Gibson Custom Shop Explorer, in Purple Burst, or whatever that was called. Lilac Burst? Anyway, man, what a fantastic guitar! Alas, it died in a house fire, in Jan 2017, but when I went to look up value, for insurance purposes, after quite some time, the ONLY one I found went for $7k. Wtf? I paid $1900 for mine, just a few years earlier. The market is a fickle place…!

@FenderMarko47 Год назад

Now that is a nice guitar!!! Love the bridge pickup, got a lovely squelchy tone to it

@Slovy_ Год назад

If u lower the pickups flush with the top of the pickup rings it helps tame them a little. Especially with hot pickups.

@sixstringer3783 Год назад

That is a sweet Explorer love the sound and color cool Christmas present 👍👏🤘🎸

@lgfbmusic1434 Год назад

Nice score, i had exactly the same scenario when i bought a 2001 Les Paul standard. The guy bought it in 2001 to learn on and never really used it....btw the 83 es 335 plays very well....Luke

@MrGavinspoppop Год назад

I very much enjoyed seeing you with your kids .... that is the real value in life ... being a good attentive father ..... Blessings to you my friend ... peace

@rikjones5924 Год назад

Back around 84 Gibson released the Mathias jabs explorer, should of gotten one!

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

Merry Christmas Everyone. Model Train sets are pretty cool, myself, I'm more of a Slot-Car guy. LOL, I remember when we used to race those slot-cars we would switch the rear tires to the wider white silicon type. Ahhh, the 1970s, it was such a great time to be a kid! Cool guitar Austin, great find Sir.

@adrianr2312 Год назад

Hey there HK, hope you have had a great holiday weekend!

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

@@adrianr2312 Thank You Adrian, same fort You.

@cataclysmicconverter Год назад

Likewise! My neighbor was an only child (who has the tool & die shop and restores tractors) and his living room was always PACKED on Christmas morning. He had a huge layout of slot car track on a full piece of plywood up in the attic. Loopty loops and all. We taped a penny on the top of the car to keep from flying off the track, but it didn't help much. Gotta finesse that controller 😄

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

@@cataclysmicconverter LOL, that was my main problem with slot-cars, the throttle control basically had two settings, 5% power and 100% power. The Penny trick does work, but only with mild turns in the track. Normally we assembled our tracks as crazy as possible. Somewhere, in my parents old house, if they ever clean the furnace duct work there should still be two slot cars that have not been seen since Christmas Morning 1972!

@cataclysmicconverter Год назад

@@hkguitar1984 🤣🤣

@Jdaylily Год назад

Loved this video and the story with it, cool video concept would love more like this. Meet up and story with the seller is cool

@dickersnoodle1025 Год назад

the pot not fully rolling off could be a bad solder joint just not grounding fully, just a re-solder on the original points would probably fix it

@AlanHamiltonAudio Год назад

Did you try reflowing the wires on the pot to make sure the problem was the pot versus just a cold solder? ...And also cleaning the pot with DeOxit before replacing it?

@stonebrakerstudio8238 Год назад

Merry Christmas and that guitar sounds real sweet

@timcole421 Год назад

That ground off tailpiece is the absolute identical to my white 84 ground tail piece and if I am not mistaken your union jack one as well which you called inauthentic. They are OG.

@cartoonsandcannabis Год назад

This rules! The USA that I love rock & roll solidarity I used to live in Troy

@cataclysmicconverter Год назад

Man, my friend has a red one of these and it's got kind of a mirrored plexiglass pickguard.

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

👍

@tykit9230 Год назад

Dang I'd had made that drive for it, my buddy had one of those in purple he bought new. He wore the paint off the neck in 3 years, no kidding

@bradj.2673 Год назад

In my neck of the woods...Hudson, MI cool to see hope it works out for ya...

@marcovillarreal3353 Год назад

Merry Christmas Austin, wishing the best of everything.

@b1gbo5s99 9 месяцев назад

Not sure if you'll see this, but if it's spent 30 odd years in one position on the pickup selector, it can push the leaf spring things out of contact.

@Dan.Solo.Chicago Год назад

6:14 I can’t stop watching this bit over and over. 6:09 Trogly in the wild.

@johndaugherty4127 Год назад

I have to say that I have enjoyed watching your progression as a player over the years.

@MechaSkingles Год назад

Bless up to this guy. Hope he enjoys his trains. He deserves the best.

@jimhicks8871 Год назад

This was a great video. I really love the color of this guitar since you don't see hardly any blue explorers around. Yes I think you got very lucky on this one. The owner was a nice guy who really had n't messed around with the guitar too much. I hope you continue to have such good luck

@TennisOnion Год назад

beautiful crunch sound

@reeling-in Год назад

This was a lovely episode. A really nice guitar that just looks and sounds great! Interesting to actually see what your part of the USA looks like! Regards from the other side of the pond!

@rabioli2002 Год назад

Merry Christmas Trogly!!

@Thehusband Год назад

These videos are so much fun, I also like the detective work in finding what is causing the problems!

@jeromestevenfaigin6059 Год назад

My dad repaired TVs South of Hollywood and close to Herb Albert's A & M records where he came during the Holidays to buy TVs from me. Needless to say I had no choice but to learn electronics too. Repairing the Gibson Explorer is nothing to repairing audio equipment and TVs. So fooling around with electric guitars unless it was a MIDI guitar like the PG-780 from a joint venture between Ibanez and Casio. That guitar once sold I stayed with using Roland's GK-3 and the GI-20 so I now can use any sound modules which I have 1 Edirol SD-80, 2 Roland's SC55 & SC88ST and 2 EMU Proteus 1 and the FX. I know this because I needed more space and rewired the equipment to another space within this house. Writing using MIDI can be tiresome! Changing a potentiometer is nothing compared to electrolytic compacitors.

@hivoltage-wk2fp Год назад

Merry Christmas everyone

@hughjarrse Год назад

Merry Christmas to you, it's Boxing day here (just 🙂)

@hkguitar1984 Год назад

Merry Christmas hivoltage1999 🎄🎅🏻🎁

@oatnoid Год назад

I've bought a guitar or two off of the back of a pickup truck. One is still my main practice guitar. Kid gets a plastic dinosaur, Dad gets a $2k guitar. Cool.