7k reissue LP. Is it real rust?

[Top-L]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...tar-murphy-lab-ultra-light-aged-factory-burst

I wonder what makes it worth seven thousand. Then i see rust in the tailpiece screws.

You think that is real rust, or paint?

 

[beaubrummels]

Real. You can oxidize metal parts by suspending them over some chemical solution overnight. $7K because a dude with a known name has to spend the time individually aging parts and elements of the instrument. They also tap test the woods and select certain woods for grain for these type of builds.

 

[larryguitar]

Real. You can oxidize metal parts by suspending them over some chemical solution overnight. $7K because a dude with a known name has to spend the time individually aging parts and elements of the instrument. They also tap test the woods and select certain woods for grain for these type of builds.

No, that's not a Murphy guitar, it's a 'Murphy LAB' guitar; basically Gibson employees doing the aging after some Murphy-led training.

The 'better guitars' bit has been disproven, including official statements by Gibson, many times. It's a Gibson LP, fake-aged by Gibson at their factory.

Larry

 

[Aceman]

I was just gonna chime in on that.

My Aged Budokan - THAT was aged by Murphy.
Murphy Lab is Gibson's bastardization of how he does his thing. And, apparently there are some *ahem* issues with the work they do.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

Most importantly, was that rust made in the US?

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Dean has a Rusty guitar too :9:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Real. You can oxidize metal parts by suspending them over some chemical solution overnight. $7K because a dude with a known name has to spend the time individually aging parts and elements of the instrument. They also tap test the woods and select certain woods for grain for these type of builds.

It's an almost new looking guitar with rusty screws/kinda cruddy tuners. Why 7k?

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I'd love to get one of those ones in one of the bursts that don't look ridiculous like that, and swap out the pickups for active and add black hardware to it just so that people go nuts over that, LOL.

Seriously, though, have you seen those in person? They do look pretty cool, and they more than usually play and sound great. The prices are retarded, but they're good guitars.

However... is this supposed to be like this?



Mine isn't like that, but it's not a historic reissue either and the outline of the headstock does slightly look different than that.

 

[beaubrummels]

However... is this supposed to be like this?



Mine isn't like that, but it's not a historic reissue either and the outline of the headstock does slightly look different than that.

My historic is like that. The A is a little bit more in than that, but it's very close to the picture.

 

[beaubrummels]

No, that's not a Murphy guitar, it's a 'Murphy LAB' guitar; basically Gibson employees doing the aging after some Murphy-led training.

The 'better guitars' bit has been disproven, including official statements by Gibson, many times. It's a Gibson LP, fake-aged by Gibson at their factory.

Larry

Because an expert training someone else would never work, would it.

(Seymour >> Maricela)

Guess it depends on the company.

 

[Top-L]

In Gibson's favor, these are much more tasteful than the way Fender takes a belt sander to their relic guitars.

 

[jeremy]

its $7k cause someone will pay that. not me, but they are out there in bigger numbers than wed expect

 

[GuitarStv]

It's important to have someone damage a guitar for you if you play guitar so rarely that you're not able to put your own wear into the instrument. I mean, how else would you do it . . . practice with the damned thing????

 

[JMP/HBE]

Before Murphy aged there was Gus Chiggins aged. Gus used muriatic acid just like in 1959.

 

[Securb]

I have a Murphy LAB guitar and love the looks of it. You would think the guitar was decades old without the wear, tear, and failing parts. It has a lot of mojo.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

My historic is like that. The A is a little bit more in than that, but it's very close to the picture.

I just checked. Mine is close, but the A string doesn't touch the wraps around the E string tuner. Does yours?

Mine is no historic, but I can only see that causing problems, TBH. Do you not find that to be the case?

 

[Chistopher]

I feel if you are charging $7k for a guitar that looks like it's been played for a few months, it's going to go straight on the wall behind a frame in some venture capitalists house, never to be touched again.

 

[Top-L]

I feel if you are charging $7k for a guitar that looks like it's been played for a few months, it's going to go straight on the wall behind a frame in some venture capitalists house, never to be touched again.

Just a typical boomer who rode the market for 40 years and whose kids are out of the house can buy these, no problem.

But honestly for that price I'd rather have a full size pinball machine in the rec room.

 

[JMP/HBE]

Well ive known about the Murph age thing since it began. Never thought too much except someone was dumb enough to score 3800 lines w/a razor.
Some of it was cool and some way overdone.
What i can tell you about natural finish checking is that its asymetrical and most the MA stuff tries to be symetrical to a point.
Can also tell you the the natural checking is more longitudinal [north & south] rather than side to side [east west] which most Murphy razor cut seems to be.
I would not have known that had i not bought a 30 yr old Custom Shop LP. [non MA]

 

[solspirit]

Just a typical boomer who rode the market for 40 years and whose kids are out of the house can buy these, no problem.

But honestly for that price I'd rather have a full size pinball machine in the rec room.

That would be cool, I haven't played in decades.