A rolled piece of Duct Tape will easily lift those medallion switch control cover off. Or, you could use a Dental Pick to lift it through one of the screw holes. Trogly, you need a few more tools.
Thanks for letting the wider public education on these rare finish Gibson Les pauls. Your content is greatly appreciated. Us regular guys really appreciate the reviews of hard to find guitars.
I happened to pause at 6:44 and noticed the color can shift slightly into blue. Aside from the stingers not being leveled everything else is very tastefully done. you can't always pull off black sides, but with this combination it works nicely.
Yeah that thing is sweet. I knew that was the one you were gonna buy. A purple widow with matching headstock and double stingers? yep that’s Trogly’s wet dream guitar.
You never know how a kid might pickup an interest in an instrument. Taj Farrant was playing Pink Floyd solos by 7yrs of age on a Gibson Les Paul (check his youtube history). Maybe he's a rare exception but he shows what is possible for kids that are motivated and have great at home support. BTW, the Lilac Luster looks great on a strap, your buyer got a gorgeous guitar.
Anyone doing something impressive at 7 is a rare exception! I suspect it’s not as cool for the kid, or the parents of the kid, as it is for people who get to witness the prodigy perform when young; not as impressive when they get older and so hard for the prodigy to adjust to being a normal adult
When you put the covers over the rings it makes the rings look like binding. I like it with the covers installed. And the neck binding would have been tinted on the top until they scraped it level with the fretboard.
Purple = Awesome. I have just finished building an offset guitar and I painted it with a metallic chrome purple using anodised paints. Because I was painting wood it required using a special base coat but the results are magnificent.
Damn this is the most beautiful Les paul I’ve ever laid eyes on. I’m not even a Les paul guy but this is just magnificent. And it sounds great too. Perfect tone.
Man I’m so glad you grabbed that one. It’s not usually my style but there’s something about that makes it really awesome especially with that gold hardware and stinger. I Love it!!!
My first guitar was a used LP custom which I still have. It was around 1984 and people were selling them used for dirt cheap so they could buy a pointy guitar which were all the rage at the time. Luckily for me my guitar teacher knew the Fenders and Gibsons flooding the used market were the way to go for the money I had to spend and pushed me in that direction. He was disappointed I went LP though because he was a Strat guy but knew the LP was a steal for what I paid.
My first was a 72 standard I bought used, I had it my whole life until it burned up in a house fire 20 years ago, but I scrounged all the hardware for it including the pickups which were still in good shape, I took the covers off and cleaned out any smoke residue and bought another identical 72 and put the old pups in it so in a way it still lives on, I also lost a 62 strat in the same fire, I don’t know why but I just can’t fall in love with a strat the way I love Les Paul’s, I just bought a R0 which set me back but the next will be a custom
@@DoctorEnigma01 Wow, sorry to hear about the fire. I would be devastated if anything happened to my LP. Good you could salvage some parts and find one from the same year.
It is a serious condition, possibly genetic too as my adult Son is also afflicted with the same condition. I'm shameless though as I will purchase guitars and tell the wife they are really for our Son to inherit when I pass. Sooner or later she is gonna catch on though.
Very nice. Maybe not my favorite color there is no denying that is a beautiful Les Paul. Congrats. Wow, seeing how fancy this Purple Widow is I'm also starting to look at my old LP Custom as (dare I say) boring................... LOVE the STINGER(s)............
Austin, can you definitively answer an age old question for us? You've opened enough Gibson guitars to know. The new Gibson smell, how do they do it? It does smell like Benzoin and a lot of us on the forums have narrowed it down to the cases to mask the scent of glue. I have purchased Benzoin essential oil and that is indeed the scent used and Im sure it mixes with the mahogany. What you end up with is a scent that smells like chocolate-vanilla cupcakes. Can you get to the bottom of this and make a video? also, That Les Paul is spectacular!
im not a huge gibson fan or even vintage guitar fan (only one i have is a 1989 fender strat plus my granddad gave to me), but your videos are always entertaining and spark my excitement for guitar when motivation is running low
Excellent video/ review beautiful guitar though it was crying out for you to play Burn, Speed King, Black Night or Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple one of the Greatest Rock bands of all time 🎸
Some day I will own a Gibson Les Paul Standard. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your reviews in guitars that I will never see. Abrazo mexicano! 🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻
Trogly. What would be a good gibson LP to get into gibsons? I've always had fenders, but after playing epiphone LPS for about 4 years I've absolutely love them. And every givson lp I've played feels fantastic
