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Yamano didn't send many guitars "back", they had a full repair shop to take care of any issues. They would repair and send invoices back to Gibson for the work. I remember them charging me $2 to replace a broken high E string. Also, shipping a guitar back to Nashville was not cheap, we liked to keep things out in the field. There was a time where, if we needed to scrap a guitar that they had, I had them saw off the top of the headstock with the logo and serial number and send it back before we credited the guitar back to them.
Trogly, I just bought something I'd been searching for too using some of your tips. An Ibanez RG770DX in laser blue. It was one of my grails, and every example would be too beaten or with non original parts. Finally I found and original in decent shape for a good price.
I own a Les Paul voodoo and love it. The look is unique (especially the body) and it has a lot of bite. However, the explorer is rumored to be the best of the line up. I could not find one even in 2003 :(
Earlier this year I went to a guitar show, not planning on buying anything more than a pedal but I spotted a Voodoo V with a headstock repair and some buckle rash going for a reasonable price. I tried it out for the hell of it and just had to buy it. I don’t know what it was about it, I mostly play sitting down and I don’t like attracting attention so logically a flashy V is totally the wrong thing for me! Also I was too scared to leave it my car so I carried it around all day in its attention-grabbing snakeskin case 😳
Hey! Owner of a 2003 Voodoo LP here...ours has the red Gibson logo, but ours doesn't have the fret markers like your x-plorer, only the red skull...which we love! Traded out the Black Magic pickups though, too hard to get a decent clean tone..but wicked metal tone! They have gone way up in value in recent years too...would love to collect the whole lot! Congrats on the score!
Hey Mr. Trogly as always, you are a plethora and wealth of knowledge with Gibsons. I have to tell you I can’t stand the color red, but this guitar speaks to me I didn’t know it existed explorers of one of my favorite guitars ever. How cool would that be if it had binding with a glossy finish and block inlays on the neck
Voodoo LP or Explorer is one of those Gibson's I would LOVE to own one day. They have a really unique vibe going on. Sadly I'm not seeing Gibson bringing them back any time soon.
that was eerie and intense when the first thing you played was sanitarium. GOOD JOB, my bro. that was fantastic. just really hit hard, and especially on this awesome dark guitar.
I love that series, almost bought one of those three that Trogly is talking about at the beggining of this episode. I own SG Voodoo and it's a beast, one of best metal guitar series Gibson ever made, perfect for recordings, sits in mix like hand in a glove. I always wonder, how Firebird would look like if Voodoo'fy it?
I have a sunburst '82 "The V" Flying V. My first guitar, and I got it brand new. There is no pickguard on those models, but the plastic is still on the plastic electronics cover on the back! :D
Great video! I have one of these, and I love it. It's my only "premium" guitar, and probably the only one I'll ever have. If I had the means, I would have gotten the V as well, but alas... I love mine so much I had a custom truss rod cover made from Ebony with a matching voodoo skull inlay as on the 5th fret.
I just got a Squier Affinity stratocaster and a little 10 watt guitar amp. It's not a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender stratocaster but it will do. Have a good day. PS. I can leave the Broom 🧹 alone now.
Ugh, in 2002 I had the opportunity to buy the VooDoo set at a "special" price. Whilst thinking about it, life got in the way and, well, the deal didn´t happen 😞 Absolutely love the VooDoo Gibsons! These days I think they are way out of my price league 😞 This one looks like a beauty!
I remember those! Never had one I did buy a Gibson SG gothic II in 2007. I did eventually rip out the emg curcuits and replaced with 50’nwiring new pick guard. and bkp pockups. It’s outstanding and is one of my guitars I’ve kept and use today. Gibson themselves posted my customised guitar on their Facebook in 2015
Finish under the pickups so you don’t see tan wood through the space between the rings and the bobbins. These would be cool if it had a smoky transparent pickguard so you can kind of see the red grain fill under it.
I grew up in the 1980's playing an Ibanez V from 82, still have it in fact, I use to call it a Flying V till one day I was in a Guitar shop asking to play a Flying V seeing a few on the wall, the owner of the store said he didn't have any flying V's but he could order me one,,,, I kinda giggled and pointed to the displays he had. He said Oh you mean the V's, in my confusion I asked what do you mean, he explained A flying V has a V on both ends and usually wings, then there is a V body, and then a half V... So my 82 Ibanez was considered a half V.... So I have stuck to that for decades. Unfortunately I have never been able to confirm that,,, What are you r thoughts?
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar How could Randy's V be a half V when it had wings and a V at both ends? mine is more like a check mark and it is a half V isn't it? I mean it is not even a V but is called one.
The old Gothic series (BEST Explorers EVER!....fight me) also had an ES335 and ES135! That is one odd Jazz guitar and F-holed LP lol. A gothic ES335...man.
Swamp ash has always made me think of basswood. Their main use was, firewood. (Basswood was used for whittling/carving too.) We'd start the fire with basswood then add swamp ash for fuel. Swamp ash birns hot & long. I'd never want a guitar made from either one.
these came out right when i started getting interested in guitars so they have stuck in my mind all these years. same as the epiphone SG with the cross carved into it.
Loving the various Explorers, Austin - sheer torture for my "missing" Korina Epi lol. Although that natural swamp ash one that you briefly showed has me thinking now....hmmm
Pretty cool guitar , I love the wood grain , and it sounds great ....but..but I do think the skull inlay is goofy , Ide rather see some sacred geometry inlays, also it would look cool with some black pickup covers...Thanks Trogo !
I think this looks sick!!! The skull ruins it though...not a fan. But this body shape really works. I don't think it works for any of the other body shapes aside from this one. Well, in my opinion.
By far one of my favorite series Gibson has ever done! I had a Les Paul Menace and loved everything about it except the "I love Mom" tattoo logo & the muddy 490R neck pickup. Unfortunately, I had to sell it to put a down payment on my car! Imagine, I only paid $650 for it and sold it to Music Go Round in Columbus, Ohio for $500. Boy, how the market has BLOWN UP since then! 😬
I’ll tell you what I would love to see a comparison between the 2023 SG special and the custom shop 63’ SG special the only difference I can see is the capacitors and I don’t know if that commands a 2thousand dollar difference. You can even go further to the white 63’ SG special that’s 4K more it has the different capacitors and and and wait for it… it’s white. Someone really needs to do a comparison of these 3 models because their price differences are so ridiculously outlandish it’s on par with blatant price gauging .
I don't think I ever caught sight of a Voodoo Explorer in my own comings and goings. I did spot the Gothic line at Guitar Center during the 2000s. Those models struck me as being to the standard Les Paul, SG, Explorer and V what the Polymoog Keyboard was to its earlier synthesizer edition, just a slimmed-down version meant to export the brand.
From the pov of the sound, I don't understand the combination of ash with ebony fretboard. That extra harshness could be softened with a rosewood fb; and the bite would remain, with probably a better enhancement inside a mix These are the guitars that, when the drummer comes in, they get lost in the mix.
I swapped my ceramic Gibson pickups from my SG and added BB1 and BB2 and it absolutely changed the guitar! I sold the original pickups to fund the burstbuckers..
If you happen to see this comment and you get a chance to answer, I would love to know what amp and or distortion pedal you were using for that. I love the middle tones on that I like using middle tones a lot
Gibson axed the case locks because people kept accidentally locking themselves out of their own case. They were useless unless trying to keep your kids out. I’m sure some of it was due to cost cutting measures as well. Around 2005 ish- they start to go away
I have an idea! What if the new locks on Gibson cases have a sensor, and there’s a bracelet or ring with a microchip in it, and the lock’s sensor scans the bracelet or ring’s microchip and the case opens! Kinda reminiscent of Tesla’s 3rd party key accessories
Hey bro would you be interested in a custom shop with headstock logo j -45 banner with vos Madagascar rw board bridge red spruce top and hot Hyde glue. I think it's a 2012, it's pretty much showroom new with one scratch I can think of. If your interested or know anyone that might be let me know. It's so rare I can't even find a comparable example to make an offering.
Gibsons Explorer options are a joke in the UK, the occasional wood finish for sale or a discontinued Lzzy Explorerbird if you find one, and mine needed a fret dress straight out of the box..
I'm neither a Gibson collector nor an SG fan but I have managed to add both the Voodoo and Menace versions to my collection. I was visiting a friend who worked at a Guitar Center about an hour from home one weekend several years back (I think around 2015) and they had both. I was buying an amp but he offered the SGs to me for $900 so I took them. It was so unexpected that I didn't even notice the "tilt-back" neck... which I hate. I play them occasionally (the Menace sounds better for some reason) but mostly they look good on the wall in my den.
