So as the title says I just purchased an Orville By Gibson Standard.
I did research and these are suppose to have nitro finish. Is that right? I expect a guitar just as good as a Gibson standard from that time. It has the original 57 classics in it.
For what I payed for it, Gibson doesn't make a model that looks anywhere near to this. I'm always underwhelmed by Gibson standards, not their Historics however..... those are amazing.
So it was either this guitar or an ugly Gibson Studio..... sure with extra money I could have gotten a Standard but as I said they never inspire me for the money. For the money I'll rather have this guitar.
I also want to add that I looked for many Gibson Les Paul Standards, either at guitar center, ebay, or reverb.com and I've found that people are so overpricing these Gibson standards. I saw a guy asking $2000 for a plain jane ebony lp gibson standard. I don't think I saw one at at least $1500. I don't think most of these standards are worth more than $1500. I've had several over the years, and never paid over $1500, which is hard to find and takes a great deal of patience to wait for one. The prices I see do not match my desire for one.
So I thought screw it, this gives me everything a standard will give me and it actually has the pickups I like.
Here is a link to the pic:
http://imgur.com/fdeKSYL,0Z7lZmt,Nj0oJSl,WHC3eod,RVs5CSN,NldpJuw,POy3hXU,anJeYEA,TwPFpO8,Oi6lRxG,zkpg6xJ
I did research and these are suppose to have nitro finish. Is that right? I expect a guitar just as good as a Gibson standard from that time. It has the original 57 classics in it.
For what I payed for it, Gibson doesn't make a model that looks anywhere near to this. I'm always underwhelmed by Gibson standards, not their Historics however..... those are amazing.
So it was either this guitar or an ugly Gibson Studio..... sure with extra money I could have gotten a Standard but as I said they never inspire me for the money. For the money I'll rather have this guitar.
I also want to add that I looked for many Gibson Les Paul Standards, either at guitar center, ebay, or reverb.com and I've found that people are so overpricing these Gibson standards. I saw a guy asking $2000 for a plain jane ebony lp gibson standard. I don't think I saw one at at least $1500. I don't think most of these standards are worth more than $1500. I've had several over the years, and never paid over $1500, which is hard to find and takes a great deal of patience to wait for one. The prices I see do not match my desire for one.
So I thought screw it, this gives me everything a standard will give me and it actually has the pickups I like.
Here is a link to the pic:
http://imgur.com/fdeKSYL,0Z7lZmt,Nj0oJSl,WHC3eod,RVs5CSN,NldpJuw,POy3hXU,anJeYEA,TwPFpO8,Oi6lRxG,zkpg6xJ