The Dali
MeltedClockologist
This thing is beat. I'm not even sure how the guy knows it is a Gibson...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170585454550
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170585454550
Gibson ES 150 on ebay... wow...
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Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Gibson ES 150 on ebay... wow...
it could well be a horribly badly repainted es150. or it could be an es125 (which is more or less the same but with a laminate top). Or it could be an L50 with a pickup installed (essentially becoming the same as an es150) or it could be an L48 which is the same as the L50 with a laminate top.
I have an L50 and it looks pretty similar (except mine has been completely restored). So yeah it definitely looks like and old gibson, but whatever it is ill bet it sounds cool!
you juts gotta weigh up how much you are prepared to spend on it if the neck is warped or if it needs a fret job or perhaps even a complete refinish.
it could well be a horribly badly repainted es150. or it could be an es125 (which is more or less the same but with a laminate top). Or it could be an L50 with a pickup installed (essentially becoming the same as an es150) or it could be an L48 which is the same as the L50 with a laminate top.
I have an L50 and it looks pretty similar (except mine has been completely restored). So yeah it definitely looks like and old gibson, but whatever it is ill bet it sounds cool!
you juts gotta weigh up how much you are prepared to spend on it if the neck is warped or if it needs a fret job or perhaps even a complete refinish.
J
Jessie's ghost
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Re: Gibson ES 150 on ebay... wow...
Train wreck.
Train wreck.
F
Funkfingers
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Re: Gibson ES 150 on ebay... wow...
A friend of mine has an all-original mid-Sixties ES-125CD. Many of the woodworking details and shrinkage artefacts on his guitar resemble those on the eBay listing.
Looking at the eBay photographs, the neck profile looks correct for a Sixties taper. The fingerboard wear is either superbly relic-ed or it is the real thing. The headstock looks terrible. Not only has it been badly painted, it appears to have been brutally sanded first. (The "moustache" end shape is well ****ed.)
IMO, the eBay vendor is telling it like it is. P R O J E C T. Only you can decide whether the financial outlay of a full restoration is justified.
Getting back to my friend's ES-125CD, it made superb mildly overdriven jazzy Blues sounds - especially on the neck position P90. (One P90 would be enough!) Just to put things into perspective, my friend paid the equivalent of over $2500 for his guitar.
A friend of mine has an all-original mid-Sixties ES-125CD. Many of the woodworking details and shrinkage artefacts on his guitar resemble those on the eBay listing.
Looking at the eBay photographs, the neck profile looks correct for a Sixties taper. The fingerboard wear is either superbly relic-ed or it is the real thing. The headstock looks terrible. Not only has it been badly painted, it appears to have been brutally sanded first. (The "moustache" end shape is well ****ed.)
IMO, the eBay vendor is telling it like it is. P R O J E C T. Only you can decide whether the financial outlay of a full restoration is justified.
Getting back to my friend's ES-125CD, it made superb mildly overdriven jazzy Blues sounds - especially on the neck position P90. (One P90 would be enough!) Just to put things into perspective, my friend paid the equivalent of over $2500 for his guitar.
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drew_half_empty
Looking for Real Life
Re: Gibson ES 150 on ebay... wow...
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit
