1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)

[sloop_john_b]

How many Bigsbys is too many?

http://toledo.craigslist.org/msg/3195291091.html

[jingle_jangle]

Yep it's catching on!!!





The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...

[cjj]

I'd think one would have to spend a LOT more time learning what all the switches and knobs do than they did learning to play...

[jps]

All the extra holes were drilled with a CNC machine, so they are straight.

Well, that's good to know!

[Benjamin]

The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...

Yes, but this one is actually a Godwin Organ Guitar, so it is completely justified in having so many controls. The others are hideous.

[jingle_jangle]

Completely justified?

In the sense that every knob or switch does something, yes.

Still, patently ridiculous. Oh, and ugly, to boot.

[Benjamin]

Completely justified?

In the sense that every knob or switch does something, yes.

Still, patently ridiculous. Oh, and ugly, to boot.

Not gonna disagree at the end of the day

Some elements of style are there. I am sure you could work some of those into submission.

[doctorwho]

Shades of the 1960s Vox Guitar Organ!

http://www.voxshowroom.com/us/guitar/guitar_organ.html

[collin]

Shades of the 1960s Vox Guitar Organ!

VoxGuitarOrgan.jpg

http://www.voxshowroom.com/us/guitar/guitar_organ.html

I had one of those a couple years ago. What a miserable pile of rubbish. Very cool though!

[JakeK]

I had one of those a couple years ago. What a miserable pile of rubbish. Very cool though!

Yep.



It sounds like you ran it through a Maestro Fuzz Tone on some of the lower notes, that was probably the "rubbish" part of it, how notes distorted and weren't clear.

[collin]

Nope. The rubbish part is how it had a 20' wide metal neck with tiny notched frets. It weighed a metric ton and had so many switches and knobs that half of them didn't work. The high action, non-adjustable neck, background noise...The tone wasn't even cool.

Honestly, the only reason these get more attention than the MCI Guitorgan is because of the Vox name and cool shape.

Very cool wall art...that's about it.

[doctorwho]

The embedded video at the Vox Showroom link in my post is a demo of the prototype back in the 1960s.