Recent content by fatherjones

SOLD

Oh, I don't get this one from Japan. I got it from outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Somebody got it from Japan, clearly. But I don't know who or when.

There's a ton more picks on the Vintage forum. It weighs what a solid Les Paul should weigh -- not to be glib. I don't have a scale. But it weighs more than the new chambered Standard and less than the heavy 1970s Norlin era Gibson monsters. Neck is between 60s and 50s. I'd call it full but...

I would love to sell this to the right collector, but am not sure if there are any in the United States. Am happy to sell to Europe, except I think shipping is just too absurdly difficult from here. Apparently it is easier to ship a guitar from Japan then the U.S.? Anyhow. Here it is. Offers...

I am offering it up mainly for the money. Plus I'm compulsive and like to get new stuff and I have my eye on something.

Thinking about selling it. Offers? 1,600.

I now have SD Antiquities in my LS80. Very very nice. Clear. Not too trebly. Not too woofy. Very glassy and smooth cleans. Perhaps -- perfect.

Holy ****. That guitar is stunning. It's weird about pickups and how they work with each individual Les Paul. At different times I've sworn that Fralins, Dimarzio 36th Anniversary, Antiquity, Bareknuckles and '57 Classics were each my favorite pickups. It has depended on the Paul they were...

Gorgeous. I spent a week in Bath last June and a week in London. I wish I knew there were so many sweet Tokais around.

So I added these Duncan Antiquities -- they sound fantastic. [/img]

Thanks for the intel. I suppose the strange pricing is no different than Gibson CS which charges twice the price of an R8 for an R9.

Incredible. Question: Why do folks think this quitar would have cost 200,000 Yen in the first place? As far as I know, the only real difference between the LS200 and the LS80 was the grade of the top, the pickups, (and 120,000 YEN).

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Well I'll be damned. A Mancusian doppleganger!

My tech put a set of Duncan '59s in there with nickel covers -- kept the original wiring otherwise. Sounds great. Much better than the original pickups.