The US-1 is my favorite looking Gibson "Super Strat" - the MIII is a better guitar though - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NUNjZCHBJL4.html 🟢My Website: www.troglysguitarshow.com ❓Private Help Sessions: troglysguitarshow.com/help-appraisals/ 👕 Merch: teespring.com/basic-logo-4245?pid=211 🎸New Guitar Day Program: troglysguitarshow.com/ngd/
Austin, now that you’ve reviewed a Gibson Fender style guitar why don’t you review a Fender Gibson style guitar! The Fender Robben Ford Signature Model from the early 1990s is very much constructed like a Gibson Les Paul Standard (double cut). Mahogany body/neck, carved flame maple top and a set neck with a 3x3 headstock w/Holly overlay and MOP inlay! BTW, As pointed out in another comment, at the 11:08 mark you can see the damaged ground shield of your middle pickup. Restoring that broken ground may fix the middle pickup’s output problem. Gibson calls those inlays “split-diamond”. Great review, thank you
I had a M-III that I bought for about $550 (best as I can remember) at an invitation only sale at a local music store in 1993. Sold it in 1998. Checked prices on Reverb after watching your video--if the guy who bought it still has it, he made a good investment.
Dude, You are such a wealth of knowledge and history. Gibson should be honoring and supporting your effort....but given their past...they'll probably just sue for image copyright. I'm impressed that a company can make almost every wrong decision and somehow manage to stay alive. I own one myslf....I love them and hate them. Gibson should always offer their proven design with modern designs. Cheers Trogly....Thanks for what you do.
This made me seriously laugh out loud. Having owned and sunk a ton of cash into fixing Les paul's to be right I will never own one again. 3 weeks ago I was at a GC, picked up a pretty Les Paul to give it a whirl. Was instantly reminded why never Gibson again. Completely missing the binding on the treble side of the neck. How it left the factory, I will never know.
Trogly, on some of your tone demos it seems like you're overloading the mic that's on your amp, so we can't actually tell what things sounds like, we just hear the mic clipping. I know you aren't an audio guy, but you've got these amazing guitars that you take so much time and care filming and we don't get a good idea what they sound like. Maybe consider reaching out to some of your RU-vid buddies like Robert Baker for help? It could even be a mini series, I'm sure Sweetwater would be keen to help out.
@@cooperdavis6606 most likely that. its unlikely the mic itself would distort unless he was diming his amp and using a super sensitive condenser or something, which i highly doubt
Just cut it in half and see what's inside......it's not difficult. Very cool and unique guitar. Headstock looks awesome and makes the guitar even cooler.
Ah yes, I do remember when these were first released. To be honest we didn't know what to think of them. EDIT, after watching the whole video. A pretty cool guitar, but like back in the 1980s I'm still not sure what to think about it! It looks nice and sounds OK.
One thing about these 'superstrats' from Gibson is that they always stay true to the set-neck, which is super-rare for this type of guitar. Most are either bolt-on or neck-through. The M-III is really nice because of this, with a really deep cutaway and no heel. It gives you great access to the upper frets that very few guitars can offer.
I have built a LOT of guitars and think you should appreciate the switch layout a little more. Although the public doesn't appreciate such things as a guitarist you should really appreciate the flexibility. ANY combo of pickups? That's pretty powerful
I have an '87 Black US-1.Push-pull pot is gone and a standard pot is in it's place.The knobs have been changed also ,almost like small "tophat"type.The BIG modification to this particular guitar is both single coils have been replaced with Seymor Duncan split rails! A really fun guitar
Never ceases to amaze me how he can be so influential for the Gibson community and considered a knowledgeable guy when he says the most absurd cringey nonsense in pretty much EVERY upload - each one of his videos features at least a few instant migraine / face-palm 🤦🏻 moments and when you consider he has a very real and very strong influence on the prices of vintage and used Gibson instruments, it's a downright tragedy for the players who might have had access to a certain model that was priced appropriately letting the market determine the best value when this goofy derp-alert comes waltzing up into the conversation with a bunch of "these are just soooo underpriced and Gibson really needs to be selling these for much more.." or other such Judas behavior, like a traitor or turncoat who uses his clout to eff some of us out of any chance of ever owning a dream guitar or a chance to play a decent obscure model.. Sorry for the diatribe but man it really is a catastrophe letting this guy have such a loud voice in the used Gibson market and the fact that he has the ears of the suits and ties is infuriating because he NEVER uses that for the benefit of the consumer - it's always to chastise the execs for pricing too low 😡
Did Gibson EVER use cavity shielding of any kind- whether nice copper or even PAINT? I'm curious. I SO LOVE that you're featuring Gibson's wild 80's years! Some wild stuff!!
I currently own one. I owned a Kahler version in the late 80's. Sold it regretted it. I bought another Kahler equipped version 20 years ago, but found the one I currently own in a pawn shop. It has the ABR bridge. Even though, it too, was a great playing sounding instrument, I sold the Kahler version, and kept the ABR.
My advice to anyone wanting to work on or fix pickups...... Start buying non-working examples (cheap) and take them apart. Many times the main winding wire is broken and can be repaired. Its not rocket science, a person just needs experience taking them apart to see how they are made. Pickups are just one very long wire and a magnet(s). Good luck and may the Force be with you.
Man, how ya been! I hope you're doing well, ole' buddy! 😁👍 And yes, you're right..thats what I did when I first got into fiddlin' 'round with building and fixing electric guitars, I bought like 3 cheap ones at one time at a pawn shop, he gave me an awesome deal for buying 3 at one time, so I jumped on it, and I played with that stuff for a week or so and with the help of RU-vid videos, I learned so much! You be safe, my brutha!🤟
Trog the expert couldn't even identify the wiring looking like it's holding on by a few strands, so asking him to do any work on his "workbench" (or expensive instrument autopsy table) is perhaps too high of an expectation..
I love the HSS style guitars. I have a Jackson DK3M Pro flat blk and its diversity is awesome with some Duncans. But I would love to be able to afford that Gibson. I love that headstock on that model.
@@mikexxx11 I'm reluctant to call Gibson shite, but since they charge so much for such notoriously sloppy QC... The nitro cellulose thing is bollocks and is often feels too thick on a few LP's ive tried - if Paul Reed Smith says a thin poly finish is good... A real step up from the DK3 would be a used USA Dinky/Soloist or a tidy Chushin Gakki built Soloist Pro. I have a 91 Soloist Pro and the neck profile is exactly the same as my USA SL2H, it even has the mother of pearl headstock logo and inlays. A Gakki built neck through Charvel isn't to be sniffed at either.
I'd be calling those fretboard inlays "Split Diamonds". I was thinking that he wires coming out of that middle pickup were looking too great when you had shown us the back of it. Wasn't surprised that it didn't work. Great looking Quilt top!
the middle pickup has a short, likely right where the wires come out from the back of the pickup, the insulation looked damaged. sometimes it isn't like a full on short but one strain of the multi strain wire is touching the ground. another issue could be the wiring.
US-1 video is how I got onto your channel. It's amazing that not only you got it from my home country, but also my home town :D I should've been paying better attention :D
@@bikerjon8934 to be fair, Jerry has always been a huge advocate and unofficial poster boy for G&L so to see him abandon his actual gear for a corporate sponsorship feels disingenuous at least.. It's as if he one day suddenly announced his signature Marshall instead of Freidman, ya know?
Crazy how much this resembles my Jackson strat [cheddar shredder] originated from same era. Same pickup config however my middle pickup still working. The shape, style, headstock all very Jacksonest. Still prefer Gibson traditionals but very interesting find from a lost era in Gibson history.
You might be able to get that middle pickup working by seperating the 2 conductors with something pointy (it looks like they're shorting) and slip a little piece of shrink wrap or electrical tape between them to seperate them.
I loved the US-1 super strats. A friend of mine's sister won one in a radio contest. I think it was from an Ozzy tour. I tried to buy it from her, but she wouldn't sell it. A few years later I heard she pawned it when she was short on cash. Pity. She really didn't know what she had.
I just wanted to say that I love your channel. I've learned so much from you. You seem like a stand-up guy and I follow your Reverb feed. I will definitely buy a guitar from you one day with full confidence. Keep up the great work!
I can hear that balsa wood body in the clean sounds which is very similar to my pre-production Parker Fly, which I've played for 26 years. It is interesting to see that Gibson pre-dated Parker in the creation of a sandwiched body composite guitar!
I had a guitar with the 3 separate pickup switches (the humbucker having a 3 way switch for on-off-split). I got good at using my thumb and 2 fingers to make quick changes, and I liked being able to turn on neck and bridge only for a tele-like tone.
I need you to review the Jerry Cantrell Gibson les paul Custom. My biggest wish is to get any sorth of cantrell's guitars, so if you could do that video ill be very very happy man
I had a tobacco (cherry?) burst banded/bound one one in 1998 (same as one in this video) but I am not a guitar player, so I sold it after having a local luthier, CJ Civitano go over it, after I cleaned it to perfection. Had a Kramer case that came with it. Sold it to a guitar shop and reseller for the same price I bought it for. He used to work in the NJ Kramer factory.
Man sucks for the middle pickup because that is a truly lovely guitar. On a different note, please do ol' Jerry's 'Wino' Paul. I don't know if Mr Cantrell is that popular among the Trogly's universe, but that would be a lovely guitar to review and demo.
Hey trogly! I know this vid is a year old now, but have you ever checked out the Epiphone FAT models? They’re practically exact strat copies but with bat wing headstocks and look SICK. Gibson made them through epi, thought you’d like to check it out
The switching is like a USA made 80’s BC Rich ST III Superstrat which began production around 1985ish. Starting off with Khaler bridges & then Floyd Rose’s. Bolt on 25.5 scale length (BC Rich neck through designs for non-strat bodies were 24.75) My 1986 ST III weighed 7lbs 9ozs Alder Body, Maple neck and rosewood Fretboard.
Amazing Axe, gotta love that Quilt Maple...I am a luthier and player, after many years I ended up with a solid body Korina guitar, with Schaller 456 and string lock on the neck, and old skool Dimarzio PAFs from the 70's with direct body mount. I have 2 V's with the same layout, I play hard rock...if you play 80s metal I guess you go for Floyd for sure. I also have a mahogany solid body with Maple neck and floyd guitar to do that 80s thing
Really cool guitar!!!! Almost wish they went for the 24 3/4 scale to make it more "traditional" but man what a screamer!! Even with the bunged middle pickup.
Neat guitar. I remember these in the guitar magazine ads, but I don't recall seeing one in a store. I'd actually be more interested in the Kahler version to add to my Kahler collection. But not for the $2849 price the one currently on Reverb has.
The lead coming from the middle pickup looked a bit rough, like I could see more copper than I'd like to and I noticed that even before some trouble with that pickup was mentioned in the video, so that might be the problem I think the lead is about to come lose from the bobin
I had a 1990 Fire red Gibson SG, with a Floyd rose., with no pick guard. The guitar played awsum. The action and sound was perfect. The floyd rose was installed so nice. I wish I still had that Guitar. Little did I know, that you cannot even get something like that today. what I had before.
The M-III also. They refuse to bring back but some version were just incredible. Have an Epiphone version which is bolt-on neck and that is incredible too...
Nice guitar! I absolutely agree, the gloss black back body is very meh, with an almost certainly sticky neck finish. The Balsa wood in the body definitely reduces weight (mass), but is not a wood species I would think would be a good choice for a guitar build. I can't see it being suitable for the neck, just due to the softness, and especially due to the lack of rigidity. Still looks good.
Maple neck. My concern would be the tailpiece bolts being pulled out. I've seen a few cheap basswood superstrats with the Floyd posts leaning forwards.
For soft dents like those in this finish you can use an iron or soldering iron over a damp cloth to re-swell the wood fibers that have compressed. Not a big operation but gratifying
Great looking guitar and such a refreshing take on a Gibson. Unfortunately, the creative juices from the current team has just dried up. Haven't seen any new bodies from Gibson for a long time. Just a rehash of the same old same old with different finishes but no real innovation and no new body style. so many iconic models came from early gibsons. SG's, 335, V, Explorers, Victory, Chet Atkins, M3 and of course, the Les Paul. What new body style did Gibson brought out in the last 20 years?
I just realized from watching this, I think they styled one of my guitars after this one. I've got an LTD m403 ht. It's got a flamed maple top with a mahogany body. It's the exact same shape, but with a reversed headstock. If they didn't model it after this Gibson, then it just so happens to look a lot like it. Mine is satin finished though. I'm thinking about polishing it to be shiny. I have my strat as my #1 right now, so it might be a fun, low risk project.
