daan
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Man I REALLY gotta stop looking at Ebay... I was looking for parts for my 543534 other projects, and happened upon this one.
It's a '91 LP Studio "Lite", meaning it's hollowed out and filled with "Chromyte" (balsa) A guy I know has a pile-0-LPs and his LPSL was the one I liked best, so I had been kinda searching for one for a while. This one popped up, it's stripped and has a neck break, so I could afford it. The Lites usually came with Black hardware, and super hot Ceramic pups so I would have wanted to change all that anyway... Just what I needed, another project (eye roll, "Didn't you need the $ to complete HOW MANY other guitars?")
Anyway this was something I'd always wanted, and I had enough dough, so I grabbed it. If it really isn't what I need, it's not my usual bottom-0-the-barrel stuff, so I SHOULD be able to pass it along...
A lot of these came in strange colors, like all black back with a brown tinted top, or "clown burst", I'm glad I found a normal-ish burst one.
I read that they used up the last of their "good" light Mahog. on these, so the back is probably 3-5 pieces, hence the opaque paint.
I'm very OK with multi-piece bodies, if the nicest sounding guitar I have is made out of Masonite, this should be fine.
I also have some of the hardware this needs (Tone Pros bridge/tail) and if any of my crap sells I'll get the rest.
What size tuners did these usually come with, were they 10mm ones, or is there some other size Gibson used? And the big question, should I get the Slash set, or the WLH pups? (grin)
I'm at work right now, and this should be at my door when I get home tomorrow, I'm actually really stoked about it. I've always wanted a "real" LP, I know all the arguments for getting any number of copies instead, but I wanted to have a proper one at least once. Just not the same cherry sunburst, tiger striped 59 style one everybody else has, as nice as those are. One of the Drs I work with has a R9 or R0 (can't remember now what it is) and a super fancy PRS of some sort, I think I'm the only one here who plays so he sometimes brings in his new "toys" so I can ooh and aaah over them. This will be fun, to bring mine in later this week, I'm pretty sure he paid more for the CASE for his than this thing just cost me.
Of course, more pix when I have it in hand.
It's a '91 LP Studio "Lite", meaning it's hollowed out and filled with "Chromyte" (balsa) A guy I know has a pile-0-LPs and his LPSL was the one I liked best, so I had been kinda searching for one for a while. This one popped up, it's stripped and has a neck break, so I could afford it. The Lites usually came with Black hardware, and super hot Ceramic pups so I would have wanted to change all that anyway... Just what I needed, another project (eye roll, "Didn't you need the $ to complete HOW MANY other guitars?")
Anyway this was something I'd always wanted, and I had enough dough, so I grabbed it. If it really isn't what I need, it's not my usual bottom-0-the-barrel stuff, so I SHOULD be able to pass it along...
A lot of these came in strange colors, like all black back with a brown tinted top, or "clown burst", I'm glad I found a normal-ish burst one.
I read that they used up the last of their "good" light Mahog. on these, so the back is probably 3-5 pieces, hence the opaque paint.
I'm very OK with multi-piece bodies, if the nicest sounding guitar I have is made out of Masonite, this should be fine.
I also have some of the hardware this needs (Tone Pros bridge/tail) and if any of my crap sells I'll get the rest.
What size tuners did these usually come with, were they 10mm ones, or is there some other size Gibson used? And the big question, should I get the Slash set, or the WLH pups? (grin)
I'm at work right now, and this should be at my door when I get home tomorrow, I'm actually really stoked about it. I've always wanted a "real" LP, I know all the arguments for getting any number of copies instead, but I wanted to have a proper one at least once. Just not the same cherry sunburst, tiger striped 59 style one everybody else has, as nice as those are. One of the Drs I work with has a R9 or R0 (can't remember now what it is) and a super fancy PRS of some sort, I think I'm the only one here who plays so he sometimes brings in his new "toys" so I can ooh and aaah over them. This will be fun, to bring mine in later this week, I'm pretty sure he paid more for the CASE for his than this thing just cost me.
Of course, more pix when I have it in hand.
