Show your LP Customs!

Tom M

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Anyone here have an LP Custom? I'd love to see them. Customs are my favorite Les Pauls, only Goldtops come close.

My next guitar will be a Custom, but that's probably a very long way off.
 
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It's only an Epiphone, but I don't have 3 grand kicking about. :p

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89 35th Anniversary Gibson Black Beauty 3 pickup 57 Custom. Approx $4K. Best playing guitar I own.
I installed gold covered Custom 5/59n/59n
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Works for me -- bring that thing over to North Hollywood, I wanna play it! (You can play my 355...)
 
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here ya go...the only one in the world like it (now with a letter stating that from Gibson!!)

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-Mike
 
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Mike - I've always loved that LP. Is it actually a Custom? It's got the binding and what looks like the ebony fretboard, but doesn't have the fancy headstock inlay. What's its story - how did it come to be, and come to be yours?
 
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The black one is my 75 custom. Had her since Oct 8,1982--my birthday. Drove about 20 miles to buy her used for ....... $415. Use her the next day the first time I ever played onstage and won a battle of the bands. I was 19.

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My old 74 20th Anniversary Custom.

Cool sounding guitar, but I don't miss it.

Note my old 81 Goldtop in the stand (one piece body, 3 piece top, 3 piece maple neck).

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I think that 'copper'? LP belonged to TatooedCarrot? I kinda remember drooling over it and thinking I'd trade all my guitars and then some for it...it's freakin' crazy kool!
I had a '70 Lp Custom I played for 10 years before I sold it and my blackface Deluxe Reverb...for 800 bucks.:smack: Yeah, it hurts to think about it, but it was used for part down payment on my house, which I've been living in the past 15 years...all good.
Got a sweet Epi LP Custom from Watts, MIJ, the build quality is as good as Gibby, and this one rocks!
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I think that 'copper'? LP belonged to TatooedCarrot? I kinda remember drooling over it and thinking I'd trade all my guitars and then some for it.

Yep, he did purchase it from TC. It's absolutely stunning!! I'd love for it to be a part of my collection. I believe Mike was gonna sell it about 6 or so months ago, but then he smacked himself in the head:smack: and realized that he shouldn't.
 
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i have a little blurb with info about it on my site with the pictures of it. yes i got it from TC a long time ago. it and 4 others were made by gibson in 2002 as complete 1 of a kind "test" guitars i guess you can call them. they are all based off customs with no inlays and special paint and no headstock diamond thing or trus rod engraving. it seems they did it just to try new things, one blue, one red one multi color and one copper (mine) they all went to one guitar shop and sold lightning fast. TC had this for a bit and it is THE COOLEST Les Paul EVER made and i had to have it so i dove at it. now ~2 years later or so i passed on an offer of over double what i paid for it from a dealer (so i know it's worth more than what the dealer wanted to pay me) sadly this means it has become an investment for me and hardly gets played :( that's why i keep thinking of selling it but part of me knows that it will just keep going up and up and up in price since it's the only one like it and i should wait a bit longer. oh and the other cool thing, it's a KILLER player too!

here is the headstock....clean and sexy!

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-Mike
 
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i find it funny that anyone should post a picture of their guitar after looking at xssive's. rather embarrassing, i think. anyway, would you like to see my epi?! no? ah well. one jealous welshman.
 
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