Restoring a CLASSIC Gibson Les Paul 

This video was a fun watch. Plus your vocal and guitar work are just fantastic! Thanks

Had to go back and check the thumbnail. Didn’t even notice the knobs, it’s just midnight now and I felt like watching a restoration video. Thanks for sharing.

i love what you turned this gibson into sounds awesome

Sounds great, Loved the restore. The sound though exactly like a Gibson love it.

Love that one-piece plain top. Sounds awesome too!

I like them thick!!! I just about died laughing.

Cool song and fantastic lead break! I'm not sure how these 87' Sunset Blvd pickups slipped by my Planet Tone radar.

You can really make that guitar sing! Great job, Great video!

Guitar sounds fantastic! And lucas your a damn good guitar player! Congrats brother!

Love videos like these, great job.

It turned out perfectly. I enjoy seeing restoration projects like this. That’s a really nice looking guitar, and sounds awesome too.

Came out very nice! Another killer vid Lucas. Nice addition to your arsenal.

Congratulations 👏! Awesome job😮

A testimony to the quality drop-off over the years!.my 80 custom has many more hours of play and works just fine..did a re fret 7 years ago.

neck pick up for sure sounds the best

Terrific. Starman Jeff Bridges.

Hello there! I have this same exact model, year, and finish LP Classic. Very similar top, This was like watching you work on my guitar! Picked it up used and I also replaced the pickups and tuners. Great guitar and cool video, thanks for posting! Cheers!

I can't believe you haven't blown up yet. Awesome work man, keep it up

Wow you really tear it up on that guitar I can listen to you play for hours

Very satisfying video. I feel like I've done a ton of work while eating breakfast. 🤗🤔😉

Great job well done I really enjoyed this video sounds great good luck

Nice work.. those planet Tones sound great!!!

Hahaha you totally got me.. I was like.. ugh wait, wait what’s he doing with those knobs!?? Nooooooo. Good one!

The middle position is King!!

Those old LP Classics are great guitars.

Love the Blug amp 1 with the Les Paul, I have 2 of the original amp 1 love them both.

I have a 2003 Classic 1960 plain top in Honey Burst (I think that is the color) .... This reminds of that a lot.... I like Grovers feel and quality but normally change out the Kidney buttons for Tombstone... Not a Kidney lover .... Nice work, love the guitar

Very nice, she’s cook’in now !

Glad you kept it pretty much the same

Great tone! And I really like the whole look. Good job!

Yep. Sounds like a Paul :). Great job and fun to watch. Thanks for letting us peek over your shoulder. Best Regards and Best Wishes!

I would keep all the original parts in a bag and put the in the case. Looks awesome brother. I hope you enjoy it.

I havent been able to find a set of planet tone pickups that i really liked until i heard the pickups in this guitar. Wish i could hear them without the compression b4 buying them. Great video, Lucas!

Nothing like a good Les Paul. Beautiful work my friend.

I have often wondered what kinds of humidity related problems guitars have that spend decades in hot, muggy places like Florida. I live a few KMs off of the Atlantic ocean in Canada, and every time the season changes or the humidity drastically rises, I have to do a complete setup to keep things how I want them. Probably 4 times a a year. I always know that humidity is starting to be an issue when I pick up a guitar in the morning after putting it away and in tune at night...only to find every string has gone sharpe do to the wood swelling. I'm sure this is a much, much bigger issue in super humid places like Florida. I went to Florida for 2 weeks about 5 years ago...and I remember that for those 2 weeks, I was never dry. I'd shower as soon as I got up...and I would never dry. haha.

man my brigde was colapsed the same way... i just sand the saddles with a file to correct the heights and did the top wrap to leave the preassure under the brigde

GREAT VIDEO, FAST SMOOTH WORK TOO BROTHER.

Great video. Wanted more Xanadu :) It really hits home to see how much money can be saved on guitars like this when you’re so capable at the work bench. Probably paid for those new pickups by doing the work yourself.

I had one of those. But a 2004. Same color and all. Loved everything about it except the stock 496R/500T hot ceramic pickups. Swapped them out for a set of Bare Knuckle Mule PAFs and it changed it for the better! Eventually traded it for something and regret it every day. Mine also had the bridge collapse.

You got me with those strat knobs 🤣🤣

What a beut of a player. Love the colour. Edited to add: You had to remove a lot of fret wire... you have created a wonderul fretless wonder! Careful, you might get used to that slinky feel :)

Great job! Sounds great!

I'd be curious to see the price breakdown, if you're willing to share

My first real LP was a 01' Classic in lightburst finish, just like yours. What a great guitar! resonant, toneful, easy to play. With a pickup upgrade of your choice (SD Antiquity, Burstbuckers, Classic 57, Thornbuckers) you got a R0/G0 for 1/3 of the price. I wish the neck was a lil bit thicker but love the vintage feeling of these old Classic. Loved the vid, a delight to watch. Keep it up!.

Well done…your playing was quite the kick ass👍

A lot of Gibson fans go on about how amazing the 90s Les Paul classics are, but I think this era with the “snot green” inlays were still really good as well. I know many of the guitar players from my favorite bands of the 2000s used Les Paul classics. They are pretty diverse in the range of music they play well. Just recently did a comparison test between a new 2023 SG standard I got compared to 2007 les Paul classic, and I had to admit that I thought the classic was just much better. Better feeling neck, better crisp sound with clarity, better bite to it. The SG is not bad at all; I just didn’t realize how much better my Classic was lol.

That's a keeper now. Love your videos like this. For ultimate trolling, you could have photoshopped a Fender headstock along with a Tele neck pickup to go with the mismatched knobs in the thumbnail. I do feel strongly drawn to Stanley tumblers now for some unknown reason 🤣 God bless and rock on 🎸👍

I need to start wearing gloves when I level, crown and polish. My fingers are always destroyed afterward. Nice work as always sir!

Nice! I like the finish on her. I have always preferred lighter hued tops on Les Pauls personally. Sounds good too. I once owned a Hamer STD and rocked white Strat knobs on it for a while. People definitely made remarks about it, so I kept them on. The electronics were also from a G&L guitar and had the PTB circuit. Yes, I had G&L and Fender parts on and in a Hamer that was a copy of a Gibson. Painted with bass boat metalflake paint ala Dick Dale. I would tell the average Gibson owner to sue me if they don't like it but they either can actually afford to or they run the law firm themselves 🤣😭

uff that track was really killer

Looks beyond just a level and re-crown.

still have the Splawn? i have a Quickrod 100 early early model

You got me:)

Jake lived in Bolingbrook last year bought a few guitars from him

nice job, I have a 1990 Classic, a very early example, they are great guitars but those stock pickups are not very good. Mine has Dimarzio PAFs and PIO caps. You gave the guitar a new life!

I have one that is this one's sister, same year, same color, she is perfect. The bridge is collapsed just like yours, how did you manage to get it straight? I have tried it several times but it bends again, is it reversible? Great video. Thank you🙂

Lucas this was a good job on this restore. You should reward yourself and buy one of those new Ibanez Iceman 420s...

I keep forgetting I’m old. It seems so weird that 2002 was *checks notes* 22 years ago. Nice job on the restoration. “Gibson fans don’t really care about tradition” 😂

Nice work! Very cool. (Good idea to time lapse the detail work. T/Y.) I would have done the same.

Was that you on vocals? The song sounded like Alter Bridge and the singer like Myles Kennedy

Great video and great guitar playing !!!! Would you say that the Seymour Duncan "Saturday Night" pickups are better ? Thank you and keep posting great videos and your guitar playing.

It would have been a good video to see the guitar restoration pictured on the card. Fool me once...

Sick guitar! Looks like slash's "Jessica"...

White shag guitars used to be based 30 minutes from me in the suburbs of Chicago.

Came out very nice. Is it just me or are the 1987 Sunset Boulevards not listed on their website? Any specs on these?

Go to l p standard 89 an of course snapped off head stock at one time but had it repaired by professional in Orlando FL. I luvthis guitar but the Verner on the front of guitar is cracking an I just want the front of guitar refinished to the tobacco light it original came as COULD YOU RECOMMEND SOMEBODY AROUND CENTRAL FL

Nice video! Would you comment on this Gibson vs your Greco? I find the MIJ Les Pauls nice , but the mids are higher voiced vs a good Gibson. Might have been the particular guitar I had , an old Tokai LS50. Kind regards!

The bridge collapsing is because of top wrapping the strings. Did the store mention all these issues bro? Esp the pickup issue and work Fred? If not I hope they gave you some money back

Is that your band playing in this? Not my kinda thing but very well done, you got a hell of a set of pipes on you man

Looks great. It appears the new bridge is aged.. did you do this or did it come that way?

Last week I put Jaguar knobs on my Jazzmaster. Is that allowed??

Sorry, one more question. We're you using alcohol on the fretboard after you pulled the tape off from the level and crowning? Couldn't tell from the video, buy that bottle looks like one for isopropyl alcohol.

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I'm dying to find one in this condition at a reasonable price.

Don’t need the music score! Otherwise Great!

Looks like orangal slash

It’s a 2007

You lost me when the christian rock started playing.

Blah, blah, ...

Soooo, NOT a restoration then. You cleaned it, rewired it, and did fret-work.

Clever ruse with the knobs....