Another "prototype" has shown up that is a "studio" version of this guitar w/o inlays and binding. The serial dates it to 2013, so yes, this one most likely IS from 2013! 🟢My Website: www.troglysguitarshow.com 🔴Reverb: reverb.com/shop/troglys?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly 🐕 Private Help Sessions: troglysguitarshow.com/help-appraisals/
That guitar sounds amazing! Pickups changed or not. Austin, please consider joining a band. I know how hard it is, but call Robert Baker. Maybe one weekend a month like the Army Reserves... do a separate channel.
My American Special Telecaster has brass saddles and is typically acoustic. I do like the looks of and the sound of it . The song you opened with I've been trying to learn .
In world world we see everything before this is very class twist on Lp and its very nice stain job , its just shame Gibson what to much cash for there stuff with trying , think this would be cool product
I think they look good with the right appointments. The trans black would look good with blacked out hardware and SD blackouts or EMGs, this one looks pretty damned good too. The toggle moved to the upper bout, give it two volume controls, and I think Gibson should try an almost Kramer like slightly pointed hockey stick headstock or 6 inline anyway. They’ve got the Mustaine V… might look good on something like this too
it looks like shit and the bridge is garbage. They could use the back of the bridge to stabilize and not have only the front bolting it to the body. I hate that it makes the bridge tilt forward... I don't like the mating of the les paul headstock with anything other and this dc style body looks like a fat woman from the waist down only...oh man and I thought the majesty was a shit shape. It would be worse if gibson put this out.
I'm a big Les Paul fan, but that is a beautiful guitar...and the bridge does look nice...they shouldn't have discontinued neither the guitar nor the bridge.
Awesome! I have a non-prototype, 2013 CS serialed studio spec-ed version of this guitar. Regular ABR-1. 490/498. No fretboard inlays. No binding. Same headstock carve. Also obtained from an ex Gibson employee. I’ll need to check the scale length! I wouldn’t be surprised if those pickups are original.
I'll be durned. The CS serialed studio is also 25" scale. I never even thought to check that. PS - If you're looking to encase this beauty, an off the shelf PRS case for a McCarty, Custom 22/24 is an exact fit. Mine came in an even wacker gig bag, but now has a nice home in a halfway decent case.
Gibson finds themselves in a tough spot. People complain that they never do anything new, but when they do nobody wants it. I think the Modern Double Cut should have become a much more popular instrument than it did. I would love to have that blue sparkle semi-hollow one ... that's just so cool (not that this red one isn't). I also love the bridge design on these prototypes, but shame on Gibson for not going with it because it was "too expensive" ... you're going to ask multiple thousands of dollars for a guitar, a few bucks extra on the bridge should be a non issue. I also wonder if they just put an Explorer head-stock on these if they wouldn't have done better.
This was right after 2015 with all the brass and titanium nuts and bridge saddles in the HPs (and the Firebird). So maybe the nut was something weird and they removed it for something more traditional. Still, it’d be cool if that bridge had titanium saddles.
Salutations Austin! Nice guitar! Although it is similar in a few ways to some of the PRS guitars, and also to some Rickenbacher guitars, it is different enough to qualify as it’s own design, especially since it has the modified scale length and it’s proportions are different as well. It has beautiful wood grain and a great finish, and the comfort contour is a nice touch. I definitely prefer the production apex headstock, however, but it would very likely look better without the paint pen markings, which makes it look less finished. The new experimental bridge design is an interesting concept, and I like it better than some other bridge designs, and, I reckon it is easier to polish around. I actually prefer nibless frets, whether or not they are the original set or not. The instrument sounds decent and appears to be well balanced, although you didn’t mention it in this video, it didn’t seem to have any neck-dive characteristics. Thank you for sharing your experience with this guitar and posting this video! Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨🎸
I have this addiction to figuring out commercials and tv show background music while watching. My young daughter is really into Full House right now. The first three songs on my current setlist are Full House Intro, Beavis and Butthead Intro and Trogly's Intro.
Another one with that bridge and the PRS scale length?? I'd really love to own one of these prototypes with that bridge one day. I agree that it could have helped this model not flop so hard. The PRS stuff that's heavily Gibson inspired is amazing. Gibson really needs to try again to properly execute something PRS inspired. It really seems like they had a good idea going here but they fumbled it in the end.
Very cool guitar would take this over a regular Les Paul, sounds really good too. I am just surprised that it's possibly been tinkered with this much already. Why would it have been refretted already for example? Especially for being a relatively newer guitar.
I think it sounds really good and that bridge breathes new life into the well known Gibson sound. They should really take another look at producing guitars with that bridge again.
Gibson put this model out! Ad one more volume & DON’T move the toggle to the top. Leave the layout pretty much the same and & coil splitting for the pickups. Ad small locking tuners to it! That’s it! Don’t do stupid and unnecessary shit! Don’t do stupid limited runs! Make it a real model that we have access to! Maybe make a model with a Wilkinson. Keep it simple and classy!
I like the bridge on the proto type with a the gold saddles but that boner valute has to go, the other model with the raised wood and a valute on the back of it's headstock looks like a solid design,believe you called it a rino horn for the extra stability they provide, rosewood looked way too good for the fret job they did,neck looked nice and wide with quite a noticeably radius, I think your right about the whole back story, did a few different styles of guitar to check out the finish better to get the proto type finish to become a run,looks like they just used a black stain to accent the grain then sprayed some candy clear red nitro, looks great.
I'd buy one of these if Gibson re-released them. I'm not really into the whole 'vintage' thing, although I do have some pre-owned guitars (which are not collector's items). If they started making these though I'd definitely be interested.
I wouldn't be suprised to find out that Gibson didn't make this model because they were concerned that PRS Guitars would sue them. There WOULD seem to be a certain amount of PRS DNA in Prototype #6 -- and #2 also, since it too had the 25 inch scale length. That said, perhaps Gibson SHOULD consider introducing this model, especially if the bridge confers some benefit. The classic TOM bridge/stoptail is a hard act to follow.
@@cataclysmicconverter I'm diggin' what you're sayin'. Unless I miss my guess, though, Kiesel/Carvin isn't nearly as litigious as Gibson is -- and they who have lived by the lawsuit may be deathly afraid of dying by the lawsuit. If Gibson had, perhaps, stuck with their traditional scale length instead of going with the more PRS-like 25 inches even, they might have cited other guitars such as that Carvin you mentioned or Fender's Lead Series guitars, which looked just like "Fender-ized" PRS guitars, as alternative inspirations -- or at least been brave enough to try it. Of course, they might have had other good reasons as well. Maybe intellectual property wasn't really an issue. I just would not have been surprised if it was.
To the point that the 25" scale makes this a PRS knockoff, PRS didn't invent that scale length. They used it because it would possibly appeal to more players being between what scale lengths Gibson and Fender used. Gibson should continue this model. C'mon, Gibson, DO IT ALREADY!!! I LOVE THAT BRIDGE!!! Where can I get one?
I would have bought one of these double cuts if they didn't stamp a ridiculous price tag on them. At least the Standard DC, which I have, was priced accordingly. It's no mystery why some of these models never catch on. People won't ever give new models a chance when they are over priced like that.
About stainless, if not already commented...it is non-ferrous so a magnet should tell you right off the hop. Easy way to sort through misc. screws, bolts and washers too.
not all stainless is non-ferrous tho. 300 series stainless is non-ferrous and 316L is a common stainless But it's not anywhere close to ubiquitous and 400 series stainless is ferrous
Have you got a $ figure in mind if you do decide to sell it? The semi-hollow in blue pearl is my newest white whale if you know of any floating around out there...
Why would someone mod this 2013 Modern DC "Prototype", too bad. The re-fret has gigantic 6105 fretwire now, pretty well the opposite of 'modern'. Smaller 'medium jumbo' frets could be better on a 'modern' Gibson. Some L&M stores in Alberta still have one or two Modern DCs at $5500CAD. I guess if you're used to a PRS Core Standard 24 but want the Gibson pickup tone, this could be worth that. But I'll stick with my 24 fret Gibson SG.
I absolutely love my 2002 Les Paul, but i think that Gibson stopped trying to get any better a real long time ago. I mean, when i hear Paul Smith still get exited about new pickups, new process, etc, i can't help but wonder when was the last time they even tried to better themselves... This new bridge felt like something exciting...high-mass bridge/tailpiece...but no, not gonna happen. I don't know if it's because they try to cather to only ''purists'', or if they just don't know what to do with themselves. They could at leat try new pickups! And btw, bring the Marauder back, it was awesome!! 😉
If this one has a chambered body like one of the other prototypes you showed at the beginning of the video, why not also give it an additional middle pickup like the M-III?
