Painful case of GAS from a Les Paul

[Aceman]

While shopping for alternatives to my potential $300 Iceman - I came across a few Schweet deals: A flame cherry burst Hamer Standard for $380. I was thinking a bout getting both!!! And then...

A 1973 Les Paul Standard. Tobacco Burst. Looks like a closet classic. Can still feel the nitro on the neck. $3000. I've got a few axes to trade...It's probably the axe that has action the most similar to my 79. Low wide frets and...Double cream pups!!! Of course an axe like that just screams SuperD. Help. Please....somebody stop me!!!

 

[jmh151]

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1973 isn't a good year for Les Pauls- most likely it's a multi layer pancake laminated body. I wouldn't pay more than $1800 for it, which is the going rate for a used Les Paul Standard

 

[Simon_F]

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'73 Tobacco Burst LP with double cream pups? :scratchch

And you expect us to stop you?

 

[jmh151]

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Double creams- could just be Dimarzio PAF's

 

[Voxman]

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Here`s a guitar for you

 

[WhoFan]

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1973 isn't a good year for Les Pauls- most likely it's a multi layer pancake laminated body. I wouldn't pay more than $1800 for it, which is the going rate for a used Les Paul Standard

I'm pretty sure the Pancake bodies didn't start until alittle later then 73.... but ya $3000 is quite high for what i'd be willing to pay for a 73.... unless it really is like new then maybe.. but in my case it would have to be a 73 Goldtop Deluxe in dead Mint condition

 

[Innocent_Bystander]

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Used Standard's aren't bringing that kind of money. Most go for about $1500-1800 and I can't think of anything signifigant from the 70's that would make that one more desirable. The last few on eBay went for just under $1800.

 

[The Golden Boy]

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I'm pretty sure the Pancake bodies didn't start until alittle later then 73.... but ya $3000 is quite high for what i'd be willing to pay for a 73.... unless it really is like new then maybe.. but in my case it would have to be a 73 Goldtop Deluxe in dead Mint condition

Pancakes would have started 71 or earlier. My 71 was a pancake.

 

[Jeff_H]

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Ace...we need pics. I am heavily gassing for a mid to late 70's Custom with either 2 or 3 pickups...like my buddy Mr. Frehley played. I don't care what anybody says about the quality...I want to try and own one, and decide for myself.

$3000 does seem to be a bit high though, unless it's just dead mint and a killer player...then only you can decide. Let us know!

 

[Aceman]

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Check this out Jeff. When I do up my "Ace" LP, it will be in a big way. Light, smoke, everything!

http://www.acelp.homestead.com/intro.html

And thanks for getting me sensible guys. It really is killer mint looking. I'd have to thoroughly check it out, of course. It is the pancake, but after the SuperD goes in, that won't matter much! Perhaps I'll use ebay to bargain...

 

[Jeff_H]

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That's what I'm talking about. You're right about the pancake...once you load that with Super D's, it won't make any difference. The most important thing is that it fits your hand like a glove, and feels like the first set of boobies you ever touched. If that's the case...drop the $$ and don't look back brutha.

 

[Boogie Bill]

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Personally, I can't see paying that much for a '73, when you could get a NEW '58 Historic LP for that much money. I you want a smaller neck, go for the Guitar Center 1960 Standard CA, and save $300. Or a NEW Custom or Supreme.

No way do I get the '73.

Bill

 

[JOLLY]

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Personally, I can't see paying that much for a '73, when you could get a NEW '58 Historic LP for that much money.

I'm with you on this one.

 

[WhoFan]

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Pancakes would have started 71 or earlier. My 71 was a pancake.

learn something new today.... i thought they started the pancaked bodies around 75 for some reason... looking at a poster/photo i have of a smashed Townshend 73 Deluxe it is a pancake...

My 76 LP with the pancake body sounds fine.... not bad sounding guitar now that it has had the neck repaired right... and it has duncans in it. Right now it has a JB and a mini... The neck is extremely fat.... baseball bat... thicker then a 59 contour...

 

[That90'sGuy]

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I'm with you on this one.

+3 here.

If you spend 3 grand on a 70s Les Paul with a pancake body, you deserve to lose your money and get ripped off :smack: There are gems in that era, but they don't widely call it the worst era for Gibson for no reason No sense in settling for an "alright" guitar when you can get a new high quality custom shop one for less than 3 grand.

 

[Aceman]

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That's what I'm talking about. You're right about the pancake...once you load that with Super D's, it won't make any difference. The most important thing is that it fits your hand like a glove, and feels like the first set of boobies you ever touched. If that's the case...drop the $$ and don't look back brutha.

LMAO - at Starbucks!!!! I 'd like to get up to get a npkin, but the mental/tactile flashback on that first set is chubbing me!!!!!!!

Jeff - you may have nailed it. I played a lot of guitars that day, including a Custom 68. But the thing I remember most is the way that one felt. It felt like home. Whenever I play in the store, I usually don't plug in. If it feels good, I'll play well. If the acoustic tone is there, it will sound good. And even if the acoustic tone is lacking, a killer pup and some volume will handle it - as long as I'm feeling it.

Bonus - the purchase is a bit of a spite purchase: Mrs. Aceman is a bit in the doghouse. When you mention the feel criteria, that also tells me the name of this guitar if it ends up with me. How did Terri Hatcher say it in Seinfeld - They're real and they're magnificent. That girlfriend was a bit b/witchy, but she had some big fat ....tone knobs.And the wife knows who she is so it would bug the *%^ out of her forever!

So to those of you who say don't - I hear you an understand. But sometimes it's about more than the money....

 

[Simon_F]

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The most important thing is that it fits your hand like a glove, and feels like the first set of boobies you ever touched.

:lmao:

* tumbleweed moment as forum brothers around the world are lost in reminiscence *

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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Dude, I played a'73 Cherry sunburst custom with three pickups at the now closed,
"Black market music" in Hollywood. I'm sure someone made it look like Ace Frehley's and changed the hardware to chrome and maybe added the third pickup. That thing rang like a bell. It was heavy as hell and it sounded amazing. My favorite LP I've ever played.

Do it man! Even Ace Frehley himself said the best Les Paul he's ever played is his original '73 sunburst custom. From the man himself.

 

[pzaxtl]

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Dude, I played a'73 Cherry sunburst custom with three pickups at the now closed,
"Black market music" in Hollywood. I'm sure someone made it look like Ace Frehley's and changed the hardware to chrome and maybe added the third pickup. That thing rang like a bell. It was heavy as hell and it sounded amazing. My favorite LP I've ever played.

Do it man! Even Ace Frehley himself said the best Les Paul he's ever played is his original '73 sunburst custom. From the man himself.

You do realize that this thread is almost two years old?

 

[uOpt]

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Forget about the Norliin.

Are you talking about a U.S. made Sunburst for $300? If you don't want it, make up your mind and pass it on to one of us.