Look what followed me home from Chicago Music Exchange --

hydro

hydro

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A '79 Les Paul Custom.

Yes, I know it's not "the" era for Les Pauls and all that, but it played great and sounded great. And looked great. Immediately after I picked it up I knew I was going to buy it, I played half a dozen more after this one and really only one even came close. Big, flat frets, ebony fretboard, a few dings and cigarette burns. This is the one with the Burstbucker Pros in it, and they actually sounded pretty good to me. I may end up keeping them, the only thing I would swap them for would be WLH.

It has a funny little hole in it above the knobs, where someone had put a coil tap switch or something. May add Out-of-Phase at some point.

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Sweet! Kind of GASsing for a black one from that era...
 
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They had a couple of black Customs from the 70s; they are stunning looking guitars. I played one of them and it didn't play quite as nice, and it was more $$; so I went with this one. Kind of an unusual butter color. You can see a little bit of the wood grain underneath it.
 
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hydro said:
A '79 Les Paul Custom.

Yes, I know it's not "the" era for Les Pauls and all that, but it played great and sounded great. And looked great. Immediately after I picked it up I knew I was going to buy it, I played half a dozen more after this one and really only one even came close. Big, flat frets, ebony fretboard, a few dings and cigarette burns. This is the one with the Burstbucker Pros in it, and they actually sounded pretty good to me. I may end up keeping them, the only thing I would swap them for would be WLH.

It has a funny little hole in it above the knobs, where someone had put a coil tap switch or something. May add Out-of-Phase at some point.

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I think I am in love! That's the most beautiful guitar I have ever seen.
 
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I used to have a '76 Custom that looked a lot like that. Great guitar, never should've sold it.
Enjoy that beauty!
 
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That store is incredible. I'm glad I don't live near it because stuff would probably start following me home too.
 
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I hope this is the first thing you played on it!!

 
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hydro said:
A '79 Les Paul Custom.
This is the one with the Burstbucker Pros in it, and they actually sounded pretty good to me.
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Did someone swap pickups for a set of BB Pros? AFAIK a stock '79 LPC would have T-Tops since Shaws weren't introduced until later. I owned a '77 LPC for a few years that had a set of T-Tops (with no ground wire!), but I ended up selling it because I needed the $$$ and I played my LP Standard far more often. Either way yours looks pretty sweet and I hope you enjoy it more than I did mine.

Happy NGD!

:D
 
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dystrust said:
Did someone swap pickups for a set of BB Pros? AFAIK a stock '79 LPC would have T-Tops since Shaws weren't introduced until later. I owned a '77 LPC for a few years that had a set of T-Tops (with no ground wire!), but I ended up selling it because I needed the $$$ and I played my LP Standard far more often. Either way yours looks pretty sweet and I hope you enjoy it more than I did mine.

Happy NGD!

:D
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Thanks!!
Yeah the pickups are not original. From what I understand they were probably T tops originally and then swapped out for BB pros.

The guitar sounds amazing. It's brighter than I thought it would be, almost shimmery, but not harsh. Low end tighter than my other Gibsons.

Best setting so far is middle position with just a hair rolled off the neck volume.
 
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I love CME

I don't even bring my wallet when I go
 
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Oh baby. I would be happy with that as my only instrument.
 
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Awesome, that looks the dogs danglies.... Congrats.
 
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Wow, cool! How much does it weigh? Some LPs in that era were over 11 lbs!
 
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