I think I'm going to hold onto this one for a while but you can find your own on Reverb! 🔴 Search Sunken Treasure: reverb.com/p/gibson-les-paul-standard-sunken-treasure-limited-run-natural-2016?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly
Theres plenty of sinker cypress in south Louisiana most of which is used for decorative purposes some used for furniture and other things. Its expensive because it has to be recovered usually by boat out of the swamps and bayous. Another thing with the sunken cypress is due to having been underwater the wood tends to darken the longer it is submerged. I've not seen anyone use it to make guitars. Also only way you can make use of cypress in Louisiana is if it has fallen and needs to be cleared. There is a state moratorium on cutting down a cypress and can be a very expensive endeavor if caught . I've also heard people confuse it for ash but they are not the same. At one time the majority of homes in south Louisiana were made from cypress but as the trees started to become scarce many people in my town that are carpenters and such reclaim wood from homes that are to be remodeled or demolished.
Henry Ford stashed wood on the bottom of lakes way back in the day. It was the premium stuff used on dashboards of high end cars. There are still lakes in the upper peninsula of Michigan that are rumored to have this wood laying on their bottoms. So the story goes.
My family owns a boatyard that was at one time was a mill in south Mississippi. We have almost infinite amounts of “sunken “ lumber. It’s amazing! We built our house mostly out of 150 year lumber. There is something special about wood.
I remember seeing these Sunken Treasure Les Pauls when I bought my first Gibson, a Les Paul Studio in Pelham Blue. I loved everything about them and but couldn’t afford it at the time. I would love to pick up one of these now that I’m more financially stable. Can we just say, “WOW” on how beautiful that neck is !
Hey Trogly! Love the show! You should consider addressing different headstock sizes in one of your videos. For some reason, all Gibson headstock look the same size to me.
Bullet wood. Neat. Very...very hard. It can be polished to a surprisingly reflective shine. As a matter of fact, it's so hard and strong, it's been used to make wagon wheels/wooden wheels.
What an amazing guitar! That wood could be hundreds of years old. I’ve always been a fan of 57 classics so that guitar checks all the boxes for me. Of all the guitars you’ve documented that’s hands down my favorite.
I have a 2020 Standard that had the static/popping issue when moving your hands up and down the neck. I shielded the switch and control cavities with copper shielding tape and it fixed it.
I know a guy who has a bunch of Brazilian rosewood that was at the bottom of a river in Brazil for about 200 years or so. The pieces that are salvageable are amazing. Problem is a lot of the lumber was chewed up by something in the water.
The dark mahogany almost reminds me of a faded wine red when they turn that brown color. That is one beautiful Les Paul, if I didn’t already have too many guitars and a broken finger I’d buy one even if it were an epiphone.
I remember seeing a documentary on this kind of sunken Riverwood and then Immediately started thinking that it would make great Guitar would, and well there it is. By the way, that’s a nice axe…. keep on rockin…
Im Canadian, what’s special about the made in Canada cases? And how can I find them? Are they worth looking for? Do an episode about cases, and do more fender basses 🤷🏻♂️😁
Happy to say I own one of these. In fact, I bought it from the Gibson Demo Shop and it's the same guitar from the Legacy website. So when Trogly cuts away to the photos, that's my baby onscreen. And the best part? Gibson incorrectly listed it as a walnut standard...for half the price that they should have! True story.
Wow. I believe that one just became my all-time favorite Les Paul. I'm sucker for natural finishes AND yellow maple necks like on Fender guitars. This is just beautiful and not overly fancy.
PRS’s “Standard” models (on all the price levels) are all mahogany bodies without the maple top/veneer. They do try to make them look as good as the “Custom” ones with the flame tops. (I have their all mahogany Tonore SE parlor sized acoustic, really nice warm tone, and it’s LOUD for the body size. )
If you want a good Lp on the cheap, and like the wood look. Find the Les Paul juniors from 2013 or 2014 they are basically a studio. The specs are the same, just with out the binding.
Trog I've never really heard you talk about Green Keys before. I find a huge difference even between the early 2000s tuning keys and the more modern ones. I find they are also much darker. From what I understand, Gibson did this to try and "pre-age" the tuning keys? I'd like to know more.
Hey Austin, I was the guy who emailed you an example of this model from my local Craigslist and you let me in on this upcoming episode! I've been waiting for this day! Such a cool example!
The channel DownieLive actually did a day on a river moving cut tree logs up in Canada, it’s still done, but now they tow the logs behind a tugboat in large bunches chained together, but they do sometimes lose something.
I’ve used iron wood many times on high end decks with a three season rooms and such. Instead of mahogany decking. I’ll tell ya. It’s super hard and very tough on the tools! I’ve got stacks of cutoffs. 5/4”x 3”x 3’,4’,5’. I’ve got 4 x4 cutoffs. But I’ve been wanting to use it for a guitar. But like I said. It’s extremely tough on the saws. If maple or ebony is a snappy fretboard. Then iron wood is probably like an aluminum fretboard. This stuff is really hard!
Iron wood is also known as Hack berry in the south, it is a low land swampy species. It is as hard as iron, I have seen sparks coming off the chain saw cutting it.
Apparently ebony is rated slightly higher than ironwood but not by much. Can you imagine planking a deck with ebony? Holy smokes your saws would throw in the proverbial towel.
@@frankwebster9110 Ahahahah good lord! I know right! Not only super expensive and probably great looking. But wow! Would it beat up my tools. But here in Newton, Wellesley, needham, south natick, brookline, Dover….ect Massachusetts. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
I'd personally go for the River Green, because the natural looks just like my Koa Wood guitar. I'd be hard pressed to tell them apart in just color alone. Good song choices tonight
Look up "Timeless Timber" ya'll. Hardwoods harvested from Lake Superior on the Wisconsin side. 300-700 year-old maple, redwood, _flamed_ birch among others.
wow i really like the vibe on this one. light fretboard is weird, but all the colors are nicely balanced, and it totally works. the story about the sunken wood is really interesting and i'm a sucker for anything using reclaimed wood.
Great show Austin, I've never been into the distortion business, just not my thing, but not to say I don't like some music with distortion, just don't prefer it, I prefer the clear and clean sounds for the most part. I absolutely love the look of that 2016 Les Paul, probably one of my favorite looks for a guitar. Thanks for the temporary escape from my nightmare life. Peace Austin.
They also made a Walnut. One on Reverb. Also, a Redwood. Redwoods seem very bright as does this ST, they share '57 Classics. My Hog Tops have BB Pros, less bright. Board on that ST looks cool in my book. Nice axe, arrrgh, another tankard of rum!! 🗣🕵
3:33 WOW this redwood top with ironwood fretboard is stunning!!! i hope you get your hands on one to document! (actually, i'd love if you could even do other guitar makers or custom shops that use alternate woods and review them. there's so much out there and some really wild looking guitars, not to mention what it changes in the tone or the feel/playing on the fretboard.) one of my coolest looking guitars is a Dean acoustic i found with an amazing KOA top. other acoustics with this, or guitars in general were waaaaaay higher and more boutique. i got this for under $400 and love this damn thing. best top i'd seen on reverb for KOA, too. man, if it were a person, you'd wanna kiss the hell out of it. that good. lol. (speaking of, i have another dean, strat model with a barbed wire inlay, and ALSO a super cool wood top that looks like wildcat spots. bought it mostly for the top. another reverb find. even had a case. but yeah!!! really nice tops or different types of wood is partly what i look for which really grabs me.) one of these days, i'd love to have a guitar with a zebrawood fretboard. hopefully it won't be that i have to build the stuff i want myself, as the skills take a bit to develop and of course the time involved lol. but i may find a kit guitar with it one day....
The wood sinks into mud and sand. Over the years it absorbs minerals and takes on various shades and colours. Usually used for bespoke furniture or trims etc. Very hard and durable.
Looking it up bulletwood (3130) is harder than Brazilian Rosewood (2790) but not quite as hard as Ebony (3220) assuming they still use Macassar Ebony). W-A-Y harder than hard Maple (1450). Seems like a very good wood for fretboards. And the back being a lighter color could be because quartersawn is generally lighter than flatsawn. I know they use quartersawn for the necks. I'm not sure about the bodies. But they do try and match color and grain on the back and neck. That seems to vary though with the price of the guitar. Custom Shop gets 1st dibs on wood, etc...
I never actually seen wood hardness ratings before. Super interesting. I learned on Maple but, I prefer ebony over all. Now I know why! Thanks for that bit of cool info!
My Gibson rep came in with one of these in green while I was working at Sam Ash and offered it to me at cost. I really didn't think it was that cool and passed on it but over the years it has kind of grown on me. They're cool but not that cool.
Admittedly I am a fan of a woody tone, but this guitar sounds fantastic with distortion. I love the textured finish of the mahogany top; just like a mahogany dining table I used to have. Not sure I would enjoy the weight, but thanks for documenting!
The reason you get that with that would after being sunk in water for 100 years is because minerals start replacing the wood which is also where you get all the extra weight
Nice looking Les. Ebony board would have really peaked its looks. Or a dark Indian rosewood. I’ve noticed you’ve been finding time to practice. Sounding smoother rock n roller.
I had one of these in river Green. Unfortunately the pickups really sucked. And it would never stay in tune. Just got a 50s Oxblood standard yesterday. Everything about that is sooooo much better than the limited Sunken Treasure. Just my experience.
I’m surprised dodge didn’t come up with an idea to partner with Gibson and make the jailbreak version and all the other models that they have at the last year significance 2:43
Eventually all the knobs split in half /broke on my (Gibson USA) 2012 Les Paul Billy Morrison model. Not that big of a deal because they were replaceable, still not great though. Terrible fret work too, even said it was "PLEK'd", yet needed a full fret job on day one. After all this, I only buy from the Gibson Custom Shop now. I still love the guitar but it needed a lot of work off the bat.
Playing some Megadeth there huh trogly lol. I love your videos. Watch them all the time usually in the morning while drinking coffee but other times too.
It's a very similar sound to the Koa models. Almost identical. That is also heavy AF. not my favorite sound (lacks that low end bass) but it's still a very beautiful furniture peice 😊
