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A 1959 Les Paul in need of TLC
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:31 am
by blazer
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:53 am
by charlyg
"try and fix it yourself."
I am not sure this qualifies as "fixing"!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:01 pm
by elysrand
THat is the most..... surprising ......method of reinforcing the neck to the body that I have EVER seen in all my years of avoiding guitar abuse. I cannot verify that there were no guitars harmed in the making of that movie.
In fact, this is the most cruelly butchered 59 LP that I could ever imagine there being. There isn't enough of it left to distantly interest me in trying last-minute life-saving heroic measures. But, from the bids, there are some who think they can save it.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:01 pm
by kcole4001
Looks like they're really just bidding on the pickups, etc.
That has to be the worst mess yet.
There's not much left to fix!
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:44 pm
by jingle_jangle
It is restorable, and if I was a GibbieGuy I'd bid on it in a heartbeat...That is the only year they made that model in a double-cut.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:51 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
A fresh can of spray paint and maybe polish up those clamps and you're good to go.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:02 pm
by doctorwho
Hey Paul, that turnbuckle neck-pocket-tensioning system was used on how many different guitars?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:21 pm
by wmthor
Anybody else notice this
LP that's probably worth a couple of bucks.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:43 pm
by sharkboy
At least fourteen.
About the first one:
I wonder how long it will take the external truss tensioning system to catch on.
That strikes me as a bad guitar to play nekkid.
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:01 pm
by beatlefreak
Well, those body-to-neck clamps give it a convenient way to hang it on the wall...
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:13 pm
by bassduke49
I think I've seen it all, now, Lord!
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:18 am
by jingle_jangle
It's merely a workmanlike approach to a knotty problem.
I really would like to meet the guy who did this and pick his miniscule brain.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:45 am
by peewee
HA! This same auction was posted on another forum that I'm a mod on. It's scary what some folks will do to "fix" an instrument....reminds me of the genius that cut off half the headstock of an ES-335 12 string because he wanted a 6 instead!
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:03 am
by charlyg
It may only take one pick, Paul!
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:13 am
by jingle_jangle
Think about it--dual truss rods are just internalized versions of dual turnbuckles.