The Goldtop has Landed!

Scott_F

Scott_F

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I met a dude in Seattle tongiht and picked up a 1998 56RI Goldtop Lester (P90s, what else!)

Well, it's 7 years old, has a small ding on the back and a little scratch on the back of the headstock. The top is absolutely perfect. The action is dead on. I've got some Antiquity P90s heading my way for it.

Best part, it's got the old brown Lifton case that I love, with the pink inside! Woohoo!

Best part, we met in a Guitar Center and the GC sales dude was hip to the transaction and he was dying. Nothing in his store looked this good. I took it into the private acoustic room and just played it unplugged for a while to check it out that way. Highly resonant, reasonable weight, not one of those 10 lb monsters.

Sorry to gush. Just a bit excited. :dance:
 
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You gonna keep it? :laugh2:

If you do decide it's a keeper try a lightweight aluminum tailpiece on it.

It'll open up the tone a little and make it seem a little more acoustic.

The Tone Pro's stuff is nice but makes for a tone that is denser and more solid and bassy...not a vintage 50's tone. More modern.

Lew
 
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It's a reissue, so it has the lightweight tail piece on it. I will be getting the locking studs at least, if not a Tonepros bridge as well. I like the tone better that way on my R8.
 
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Scott_F said:
It's a reissue, so it has the lightweight tail piece on it. I will be getting the locking studs at least, if not a Tonepros bridge as well. I like the tone better that way on my R8.
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I don't think so Scott. My Les Paul is a Historic that's more recent than yours and it did not have the aluminum tailpiece. Lew
 
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Lewguitar said:
I don't think so Scott. My Les Paul is a Historic that's more recent than yours and it did not have the aluminum tailpiece. Lew
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do you know how much of a weight difference there is between the regular tailpiece and the lightweight one? Also do the locking studs really make a difference in sound? And do you have to drill for them or do they fit in where the old ones were?
 
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ledzepp29 said:
do you know how much of a weight difference there is between the regular tailpiece and the lightweight one? Also do the locking studs really make a difference in sound? And do you have to drill for them or do they fit in where the old ones were?
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The aluminum tailpieces were used on Les Pauls and 335s until 1962. Then Gibson switched to zinc pot metal which weighs about three times as much and sounds more steely.

I'm not a TonePros user and don't use the locking studs. But I have installed them and yes: they work.

They give the guitar a little deeper, thicker & more solid tone.

But it's a less resonant and less "acoustic" tone.

It's all good! Just depends what you like.

Lew
 
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The title of this thread would soooo be the coolest code phrase for u, if u were special forces paratropper.
 
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Well, Lew, my 2002 model R8 had a lightweight tail piece on it when it arrived two years ago. I've not taken this one off yet, but I assumed they all shipped with the lightweight tail piece. that is supposed to be one of the specs on the reissues I thought.
 
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Nice weather we're having, eh? ;)

Oh, the guitar... yeah, well...that's nice too, I guess. :9: SCHAWING!
 
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