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What a Frankenstein of modifications to this Les Paul! Would've loved to see you dissect and play this one Trogly! If this guitar could talk, I'm sure it would have some stories to tell!
The serial # looks more like 735306. The straight sides on the zero can be seen more clearly by adjusting contrast on the image. Thanks for bringing this one into the light!
You probably missed this but it has the holes for double sided pickguard. Essentially 2 les paul custom 3 pickup variant on both sides of the pickups. Bonamassa owns some models with this feature. As for the 2 screwed near the knobs my bet is their was a custom cover that protected the controls from accidental adjustment during sessions
Trogly, you have to remember, back in the day, you used what you could get your hands on. You couldn’t go online and buy 90s or buy pickups at all. they were scooped out of other guitars or you just saw what was under glass at your local shop. So people experimented with what they could find. My fav and best guitar is a monstrosity vintage with absurd mods. Which,,, weren’t absurd at all once you play it and everything just flows. Everyone that touches it agrees, it’s a gift from god. And I got it cheap because its not proper.
I gotta tell ya, Austin, that guitar reminds me of something I wanted desperately last year, only to have that desire rudely curtailed. I wrote here to you about maybe checking that guitar out, and you never did. That might mean you're smart. The guitar in question was a Sawtooth, and I think they called it a Hybrid ES. This guitar sported 3 single coil Strat-type pickups and two full-sized Les-Paul-type humbucking pickups. The humbuckers were arranged between the three single coils, and the bridge single coil didn't tilt -- it was straightened to make room for the bridge-most humbucker. I virtually drooled over the thought of the versatility that pickups array seemed to promise -- but then I thought of an article I'd read in Guitar Player magazine that said that Leo Fender insisted that only 3 pickups go into the Stratocaster, even though session guitar player Bill Carson (who Leo Fender listened to) asked for 4 or 5 pickups. I began to want to hear the guitar before any thought of purchasing. Eventually, I found a video only, which video had Michael Angelo Batio demonstrating the guitar. I'm sure glad I found that video, because that guitar sounded ATROCIOUS! I think the humbuckers were the worst, but I don't remember one good sound out of that guitar. That guitar you told us about doesn't look to me like it could POSSIBLY have sounded good from the assemblage of pickup it sports, but I think that I like the placement of the bridge and neck pickups. The other two, though, look mondo dicey to me.
I dont think many would but there are people with INSANE amounts of money who just want say THE ORIGINAL or ONLY of of something... The fact that it became a meme is weirdly why someone WILL pay that for it
@@Gene_Cali Funny enough, that’s basically how Morley got its name. They made a Leslie speaker that did more, thus Morley was born. Love their Wah pedals.
my 1976 Les Paul Standard tobacco burst was made in Kalamazoo and it has the pancake body and the three piece mahogany neck. beautiful guitar. ive had it 47 years now since new. ive always thought the wood gave it character
Madness!! I had a bad case of G.A.S. this week, glad I didn't see this. Opted for the LP Studio Lite MIII, all the tones. Maybe the guy would do a live stream and Trog could talk him through the bench work. Ü ♫
I wouldn't have paid that kind of money for a ruined guitar, if I wanted one of those so badly I would have done it myself or commissioned someone to do it, saying that Trogly hasn't failed well with luthiers, the last one robbed him
OH man Austin, I was hoping you were buying it!!! Make him an offer....a Trade......Both.......Something!!!!! That would be the Guitar at the entrance of the Museum for sure. Go fore it
the case your said was 90s. my Ebony Les Paul Standard 1989 came in the brown case with pink lining and baby blanket also so made in the 80s too thats a fact
Im thinking its a 72 kalamazoo made LPC for two reasons. The serial number does look similar to a 72 I use to have (that really doesnt mean much though) and the neck pup wiring looks to be straight across from the bass side of the bridge pup instead of it going diagonally. Im prolly wrong on both but the neck pup does look original to the guitar but not the position
I have a lace sensor piezo pickup with a switch that I so want to install in one of my Strat Pluses…after this video I am going to do it. This LP reminds me of Townshends famous 3/6/9 LP deluxes-(2 mini HB plus D’Darrio super distortion…
I would have bet those 2 screws by the control knobs were for grounding purposes...but then there is the 2 by the base of the neck....dunno WTF is going on.
I'd always heard the payola schemes had to do do with the record companies paying DJs to spin selected records to create popularity of the songs they chose to promote. Maybe you should've held this episode back for October since someone do a horrific job at modding this Les Paul. Is that 18 guage speaker wire i see in that ate up cavity? Personally i wouldn't entertain half whst that guy wants for the guitar even with the display case. Did anyone get a look at the three neck guitar thats been on the internet? Well actually it is three necks from what i understand used to make an extra extra long neck.
A piece of internet history! Cool to see it in detail
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This is a true Les Paul inspiration. Les did crazy stuff like this.
Good thought you would think someone would have info. Who ever used it was a monster.
Les' creativity knew no bounds, and neither did his drill, router, saw, or chisels
What a Frankenstein of modifications to this Les Paul! Would've loved to see you dissect and play this one Trogly! If this guitar could talk, I'm sure it would have some stories to tell!
I'm so bummed you don't own this even at that crazy price. I wanted to hear it!
The OCD LP.
The Swiss army Les Paul.
@@b00ts4ndc4ts LOL.
Junk
The serial # looks more like 735306. The straight sides on the zero can be seen more clearly by adjusting contrast on the image. Thanks for bringing this one into the light!
I’m thinking 735506
735336, is my guess.
I'm seeing 735366 or possibly 735566 🤷🏼♂️
You probably missed this but it has the holes for double sided pickguard. Essentially 2 les paul custom 3 pickup variant on both sides of the pickups. Bonamassa owns some models with this feature.
As for the 2 screwed near the knobs my bet is their was a custom cover that protected the controls from accidental adjustment during sessions
LINK ..... LOL
@@timeWaster76 You can't add links YT blocks them
There were actually two pickguards in some instance. You can the a screwhole on the top side of the guitar
Trogly, you have to remember, back in the day, you used what you could get your hands on. You couldn’t go online and buy 90s or buy pickups at all. they were scooped out of other guitars or you just saw what was under glass at your local shop. So people experimented with what they could find. My fav and best guitar is a monstrosity vintage with absurd mods. Which,,, weren’t absurd at all once you play it and everything just flows. Everyone that touches it agrees, it’s a gift from god. And I got it cheap because its not proper.
6:29 - can't always go by nut. Bone nut could be a replacement nut. I do a lot of them for people who don't want nylon/plastic that is usually stock.
I gotta tell ya, Austin, that guitar reminds me of something I wanted desperately last year, only to have that desire rudely curtailed. I wrote here to you about maybe checking that guitar out, and you never did. That might mean you're smart. The guitar in question was a Sawtooth, and I think they called it a Hybrid ES. This guitar sported 3 single coil Strat-type pickups and two full-sized Les-Paul-type humbucking pickups. The humbuckers were arranged between the three single coils, and the bridge single coil didn't tilt -- it was straightened to make room for the bridge-most humbucker. I virtually drooled over the thought of the versatility that pickups array seemed to promise -- but then I thought of an article I'd read in Guitar Player magazine that said that Leo Fender insisted that only 3 pickups go into the Stratocaster, even though session guitar player Bill Carson (who Leo Fender listened to) asked for 4 or 5 pickups. I began to want to hear the guitar before any thought of purchasing. Eventually, I found a video only, which video had Michael Angelo Batio demonstrating the guitar. I'm sure glad I found that video, because that guitar sounded ATROCIOUS! I think the humbuckers were the worst, but I don't remember one good sound out of that guitar. That guitar you told us about doesn't look to me like it could POSSIBLY have sounded good from the assemblage of pickup it sports, but I think that I like the placement of the bridge and neck pickups. The other two, though, look mondo dicey to me.
Yeah, they sell them on Amazon
I wouldn’t give him 1 k for that les paul custom.
It is to meme lords what 59 bursts are to poor people
for 7500 you could buy 2 or 3 guitars that do all those tones and modded better than what was done to this guitar
@@Saori-chan74 lmao I was thinking the same thing. Guitar players are so weird and I’m definitely not the exception.
I dont think many would but there are people with INSANE amounts of money who just want say THE ORIGINAL or ONLY of of something... The fact that it became a meme is weirdly why someone WILL pay that for it
It looks goofy as hell, but I imagine that’s quite a versatile axe.
Instead of Les Paul it's the more paul. 😂😁
@@Gene_Cali Funny enough, that’s basically how Morley got its name. They made a Leslie speaker that did more, thus Morley was born. Love their Wah pedals.
I would have left the knob cavity alone and used double decker pots to provide for the control of the pickups.
At 7:56 in your video, notice the hole on the left side near the binding seam, just where a lefty pick guard would attach
The "Boat Paddle Deluxe" is my second fave to the "Hornless SG"
my 1976 Les Paul Standard tobacco burst was made in Kalamazoo and it has the pancake body and the three piece mahogany neck. beautiful guitar. ive had it 47 years now since new. ive always thought the wood gave it character
This same guitar is now being listed in Reverb for $5,999. You should get it!!!
Still there at that price, and they now say it’s a 1973. Maybe they watched this video?
That cluster of knobs really kicks in my trypophobia. Freaks me out.
Right ? Disgusting
Madness!! I had a bad case of G.A.S. this week, glad I didn't see this. Opted for the LP Studio Lite MIII, all the tones. Maybe the guy would do a live stream and Trog could talk him through the bench work. Ü ♫
Look into the 59 Les Paul named Bad Coconuts.
How much you wanna bet it plays amazing?
The Nashville plant was being built in '74' , it opened in June '75' buiding the Mark series acoustic guitars.
I wouldn't have paid that kind of money for a ruined guitar, if I wanted one of those so badly I would have done it myself or commissioned someone to do it, saying that Trogly hasn't failed well with luthiers, the last one robbed him
Makes me think that maybe the original customizer was going for a poor mans version of Pete Townsends 70's #5 Les Paul.
My adhd would be so happy with the versatility
OH man Austin, I was hoping you were buying it!!! Make him an offer....a Trade......Both.......Something!!!!! That would be the Guitar at the entrance of the Museum for sure. Go fore it
Wow, the Stereo Les Paul, volume/tone each master volume, what do the switches do?🤓. Is there a link to that one?
7:55 you can se here that it definetly had a pickguard at the lefty position at one point
the case your said was 90s. my Ebony Les Paul Standard 1989 came in the brown case with pink lining and baby blanket also so made in the 80s too thats a fact
Modded my SG for stereo. Used it that way - once.
Im thinking its a 72 kalamazoo made LPC for two reasons. The serial number does look similar to a 72 I use to have (that really doesnt mean much though) and the neck pup wiring looks to be straight across from the bass side of the bridge pup instead of it going diagonally. Im prolly wrong on both but the neck pup does look original to the guitar but not the position
The 'I have got it all' Les Paul
Some will definitely have nightmares tonight!!
You have to figure who ever used this guitar the tracks we have heard. The studio session angle rings true ... someone has to know who used it.
thank You for that great episode of ttgs!
It’s 5000 something now you might want to revisit that
Did they use a beaver to do the extra routing.
It is worth the price cause it will be a mark in history both for the internet and guitars.
I hope whoever buys it is a viewer and is willing to send it to you for documentation.
Airplane Glue...It's a hell of a drug.
Rick’o’Sound imitation ! 😊
Now I’m sad it’s not a lefty
The strat PU looks real, staggered poles, hard to be sure
I would have had the pickups from bridge to neck: paf, p90, strat, mini hb
Les would love this thing
Is the P-90 slightly wider than normal, or is it just a camera angle?
This is the original prototype for the Variax !!!
THAT'S what Gerry Cott must have been looking for ...
wtf I saw the Chibson post before work today and thought that actually looks real... and hours later here we are.
They should have let the mouse they used finish the rest of this thing.
Apparently, some sort of a mouse, made me LMFAO. Great job! I needed to laugh today.
Heres one for you in Australia...
This one, you should've bought and documented.
There was a Strat at my old local shop that had a toilet seat for a body. That one would have been good for a laugh.
A mute? A screw on either side of the neck?
Definitely a pickguard on each side, you can see the screwhole in the top body edge where the bracket would have been
Interesting Les Paul
Have you ever seen the Les Paul on the headstock of a Les Paul put on upside down. Just curious.
Wasn't there one of those in the demo shop once? I vaguely remember Trogly commenting on that for some guitar quite a while ago.
@@tei1337 I saw one on a forum video. I don't know if it was real , so I was wondering if Trogly has ever seen one.
Trogly talking for fifteen minutes about a meme guitar? I’m in
I have a lace sensor piezo pickup with a switch that I so want to install in one of my Strat Pluses…after this video I am going to do it. This LP reminds me of Townshends famous 3/6/9 LP deluxes-(2 mini HB plus D’Darrio super distortion…
keep it as is ..its the John Marric of Les Pauls!
Gives me the same kind of creepy feeling as looking at an image of a 3 eyed person 😳
Mess Paul
12:13 - 😵💫That would prove you’re more insane than this guitar.
It's a Swiss Army guitar!
Let us hope the Swiss army never has to go to war ...
I'm gonna call it Walleye
I would have bet those 2 screws by the control knobs were for grounding purposes...but then there is the 2 by the base of the neck....dunno WTF is going on.
Ah that’s nothing I just made one with 5 magnetic pickups and 2 piezos 🤣
What kind of pickups do you like?…..Yes.
Nice black beauty caps in there
It strikes me as an alcohol-fueled tribute of sorts to Steve Morse's (in)famous Frankenstein Telecaster
Trogly, try this: The next to last digit looks like a 3 to me.
This is nothing against the Spinal Tap 8 pickup LP....😂😂😂
When life imitates art imitates life.
Hey at least now you can calculate a solid guess at a meme markup %.
Did it have two pick guards on it at one time Bee Gees style?
A thousand bucks kept you from buying this guitar?
Damn...lol
Still waiting for you to do the Wangcaster lolol
Damn you didn’t buy it! You could make the money back off views on TH-cam. That was a tease
i should buy it and string it up backards
Elementary my dear Watson!
looks like it was a session player's guitar
Just saw this on Facebook and came here lol
Maybe it was "upgraded" in 1978.
that les paul was shown on MLP years ago
Some sorta of nasty thing!
Covering All Base....LP
Ouch.
lol,,yoou have buyed a false headless..the one on the first pic was more to the side..the head..pluss more,what did you pay?
Just file it😂🎉in the mussel file
Brings Toy Story to mind with the kid butchering he’s toys…
No demo. Bummer. Pete Townsend Gold Top number 3 concept gone mad.
and now it’s being listed as a 73
I'd always heard the payola schemes had to do do with the record companies paying DJs to spin selected records to create popularity of the songs they chose to promote. Maybe you should've held this episode back for October since someone do a horrific job at modding this Les Paul. Is that 18 guage speaker wire i see in that ate up cavity? Personally i wouldn't entertain half whst that guy wants for the guitar even with the display case. Did anyone get a look at the three neck guitar thats been on the internet? Well actually it is three necks from what i understand used to make an extra extra long neck.
That’s horrific 😮
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn you're really not gonna buy it?
The every pickup Les Paul was a righty the whole time, this is ths worst day of my life.
You forgot an apostrophe in your thumbnail
Maybe owned by a Studio Musician?
Wallmart
🥞
$1200 is too much fror that monster lol!
I'm waiting for single coils with only a single coil.
Mouse Routes😂
Yes