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This sale was great. Was able to pick up a very clean 89 Les Paul Custom for a good price during it. After some cleaning and a minor setup, it plays incredible.
I don't understand why people give the zoot suit Gibsons any value at all while literally every other plywood guitar made has been widely regarded as low end trash.
I bought that exact 60's tribute at the 15:51 marker. And it has the same production date stamp as my gold top tribute which is a year older. She needed a good setup but plays like a dream now and is my new pride and joy. Also came with some aggressive finish checking around the volume and tone knobs as well as the bridge saddles. Seems completely cosmetic and hopefully ages with me. I also found out after buying this guitar that the tributes are being discontinued which is sad but understandable.
I bought the 1980 SG Firebrand you mentioned. It is in stellar condition for a 43yr old guitar. I haven’t opened it but it appears to be all original but for the cavity cover and screws. T-Tops are so articulate, frets are fat, low and fast [just as I remember them], three of the pots are working perfectly, one is a tad sticky, the jack is nice and tight, tuners feel great. The body has some “glossing” from use especially at the lower upper out [right arm] and the back of the neck. The ebony fretboard is in really good shape. It came with a “period correct” case, the tolex/red liner shaped case which I believe now to be the original case as all the wear marks in it match up perfectly with the SG. I bought a chainsaw case, sans Gibson placard, unfortunately. This is the case that was included when my friend bought his first “real” electric guitar, a 1980 SG, back in the day. He doesn’t know it yet, but I plan on gifting this to him sometime in the future. But, for now, I get to enjoy this terrific guitar.
That carvin had a Shaller adjustable fine tuning stop tail bridge. I have one. Toni iommi had that bridge in many of his Jay dee custom SG style Guitars
Those pickups in the Carvin are M22 Humbuckers So named as each coil has 11 pole pieces for 22 per pickup. Basically they were like blade pickups, but with separate pole pieces bunched together
I'm the original owner of a Carvin DC160T, ordered it in late 1984, and received it first week of January 1985. Fantastic guitar, those 80's Carvins have, to my taste, the best neck/fretboards, so comfy. About 6 years ago I also picked up a weird Carvin from roughly 1986 or 1987 that might be a DC160 in koa, but it has chrome hardware and on the 2-piece body, the upper half is highly flamed and the lower half is plain koa. But it has the DC160 abalone headstock inlay... 🤔
The Carvin was what caught my attention. It's definitely a mid 80's Carvin DC160. I bought a white 1985 Carvin DC100 in 1985. The body was routed out the same as the DC150 and 160. So, I ordered the hardware and wired it up just like the 150 and 160. The mini toggles were for coil splitting and phase. It had two jacks. The bridge was actually made by Schaller and was awesome. It came stock with Grover tuners. The quilted maple on the DC160 was not just a cap. The whole thing was quilted maple. Hofner made Carvins at first, but by the time these came along, they were making them in Escondido, CA. I'm not impressed with Kiesel. I miss the old Carvin.
FOR SURE BRO!!!! Was gonna say the same exact thing the wine red with gold hardware is definitely the best combo IMHO. I have a Jerry Cantrell "wino" which I have tastefully modded with super quality hardware. Aged gold metal, all brass studs, posts and brass saddles. High quality bone nut and awesome open geared aged gold tuners. New aluminum Gotoh locking stop bar tail piece and locking tune-o-matic bridge with bell brass saddles, SwitchCraft toggle, 500k CTS pots, push/pull pots, high quality treble bleed and super nice Bare Knuckle capacitors. I'm done for now, and the only thing I could possibly do to make it any better is put a Fishman power bridge in, and 498t/490r pickups in the bridge and neck respectively. That would make this more closely related to Jerry's actual 1992 LP CUSTOM than even Gibson managed to do, and that Custom Shop artist signature is like 9,500k-11,000k so I think came out on top regardless of what ANYONE can say hahahaha😂😂😂😂. They are just salty, and feel guilty and stupid for spending that kind of bread when they could have just bought an actual 92' LP Custom for a fraction of the cost.... I gotta hand it to Gibson, they really do play on people's nostalgia and adolescence to sell over priced wall hangers😂😂😂.
Pretty sad that a big chain has mis-labeled guitars on the website....either the editor didn't catch it, or they really don't know a lot about guitars...or both.
I “won” something difficult to obtain (difficult to obtain in North America) from “Mega-Lo-Mart” because it was mislabeled-they didn’t know what it was & made a super-common, “can’t really blame ‘em for not knowing,” sort of mistake in labeling & categorizing it. This is not a “bank-robbing” sort of situation, and it was all very small money. What I’m saying is it can work out good to be more educated about a product than a nation-wide big-time seller of such things-
You should remember the zoot suit with the mosaic top. It was listed on Reverb a year ago for $10K, and slowly dropped to $2K a few months ago. They swapped out the pickups and knobs, making it almost worthless. It may be impossible to remove the mosaic cleanly.
That carvin guitar has a Schaller 456 bridge. Those things are going for about $400 these days. Hard to find since they were discontinued about a decade ago. I love those for wraptail guitars.
Wow. It has been too long since I've seen an L5 since Paul Simon used one in the late 70s to early 80s. Question: I thought that all Les Paul "studio" issues were in a flat finish. That first one shown is high gloss. Do you think that was a refinish?
I actually bought the first Blood Moon LP because it was the one that had all the case candy and its extremely clean. The $2499 one has a different case and paperwork for a different a different guitar. I was happy to get an extra 10% off
man you got a deal on the paul, I sure would hate to part it out. If I had seen it I would have got it. It can be repaired and.make a great player.I will keep an eye out for it when you sale it.I watch your videos daily, buf somehow I missed the previous video with the damaged paul. Thank you Trogly.
Hello and great show~! What would a set of Late seventies Patent # pickups from a les Paul custom be worth with gold covers,... neck cover is very clean, treble pickup has some wear to the cover on both normal sides. They sound amazing Thanks
Okay, I'm still looking at the thumbnail photo at this point, but I'm ready to hazard a guess. From the pickups with 22 individual pole pieces, I believe this to be a Carvin. Something about the fretboard reinforces the feeling, although I couldn't tell you what about the fretboard makes me feel this way. That's my best, though ... Guess what? Nailed it!🤯🥳
That "Mozaic" zoot suit is at Mayfield Guitar Center in the Cleveland area, I picked it up and played it when they hung it on the wall. It's heavy as hell, and the pieces of glass are kinda sharp -- you'd cut the hell out of your hand strumming too hard. Definitely something to pass on 😂😂😂
Reverend did a guitar called the Manta Ray that kind of has Johnny A vibes, but not that pricy. Came in a few variations, 2 humbuckers, 2 P-90, 3 P-90, sometimes with a Bigsby. I have a 2 P-90 in with a great flame top. Standard locking tuners, and the body and neck are Korina, while the top is maple.
some nice looking guitars, a few great Les Pauls, but prices were high. im not buying from guitar center, but musicians much nicer people and guitars. ive bought 10 from MF in last 20 year
GC's inattention to detail, paired with a model naming system by ibanez that is seemingly gibberish to people outside the know, has led to me getting guitars from them for fractions of what they should have cost. When I used to do this I would check their stock after/around 9:05am eastern time when it refreshed to try snd snake one of the deals, erroneous or not.
Trogly, you should check out a Gibson 2007 Firebird Guitar of the Week listed at Heyday Musical Instruments in Asheville, N.C. This might be something to add to your collection!!!
In the mid to late 90's I ordered through carvins' catalogue "which I miss tearedly" an mts3200 full stack....it was life changing and affordable....like paying off a Carolla ......I miss the days of 100 watt tube stacks for under 700$....and the smell of bible thick mail order catalogs.....
Trogly, maybe u or someone can help me out... I remember in an old video you mentioned an online guitar shop where you can get 360 degree views of instruments (you know, like u can spin them around to see all sides). Which site was that? I'd love to check it out
I simply do not understand why G.C., or anyone else for that matter, try to sell guitars on line with such ghastly photos. It's an automatic no sale for me.
Every time you make one of these videos I wonder if Guitar Center is trying not to sell used gear. Their used listings are so lazy in terms of details and photo quality, no excuse for either in this age.
This one was recorded a few weeks back so we get to see my purchase reviewed tomorrow! (spoiler alert... things didn't go well)
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Thankfully it's GC and you have 45 days to return it :D
2:33 is that set-neck or neck through
@@FortenurgMy bets on neck-thru, I've got an older Carvin DC and it's a neck-thru.
This sale was great. Was able to pick up a very clean 89 Les Paul Custom for a good price during it. After some cleaning and a minor setup, it plays incredible.
I don't understand why people give the zoot suit Gibsons any value at all while literally every other plywood guitar made has been widely regarded as low end trash.
That Carvin finish is the same as on my V220. The M22 pups are exceptional.
Early ‘90’s LP Studios. Ebony boards. Mark III electronics. Translucent colors. Daily driver hot rods.
I bought that exact 60's tribute at the 15:51 marker. And it has the same production date stamp as my gold top tribute which is a year older. She needed a good setup but plays like a dream now and is my new pride and joy. Also came with some aggressive finish checking around the volume and tone knobs as well as the bridge saddles. Seems completely cosmetic and hopefully ages with me. I also found out after buying this guitar that the tributes are being discontinued which is sad but understandable.
I bought the 1980 SG Firebrand you mentioned. It is in stellar condition for a 43yr old guitar. I haven’t opened it but it appears to be all original but for the cavity cover and screws. T-Tops are so articulate, frets are fat, low and fast [just as I remember them], three of the pots are working perfectly, one is a tad sticky, the jack is nice and tight, tuners feel great. The body has some “glossing” from use especially at the lower upper out [right arm] and the back of the neck. The ebony fretboard is in really good shape. It came with a “period correct” case, the tolex/red liner shaped case which I believe now to be the original case as all the wear marks in it match up perfectly with the SG. I bought a chainsaw case, sans Gibson placard, unfortunately. This is the case that was included when my friend bought his first “real” electric guitar, a 1980 SG, back in the day. He doesn’t know it yet, but I plan on gifting this to him sometime in the future. But, for now, I get to enjoy this terrific guitar.
Geez , so many good ones , I like the Blue R-7 LP , The Flying -V , the Natural Top LP , the Silver Burst L-5 S , and ,and ,and ...Thanks Trog !
That carvin had a Shaller adjustable fine tuning stop tail bridge. I have one. Toni iommi had that bridge in many of his Jay dee custom SG style Guitars
The Carvin has a Schaller 456 bridge which alone goes for as much as $500.
Those pickups in the Carvin are M22 Humbuckers
So named as each coil has 11 pole pieces for 22 per pickup.
Basically they were like blade pickups, but with separate pole pieces bunched together
I'm the original owner of a Carvin DC160T, ordered it in late 1984, and received it first week of January 1985. Fantastic guitar, those 80's Carvins have, to my taste, the best neck/fretboards, so comfy.
About 6 years ago I also picked up a weird Carvin from roughly 1986 or 1987 that might be a DC160 in koa, but it has chrome hardware and on the 2-piece body, the upper half is highly flamed and the lower half is plain koa. But it has the DC160 abalone headstock inlay... 🤔
Can't imagine a lime green Lucille.
and that's the beauty of it! haha
I love that HSH Flying V!!! Might have to build one like it.
The 1979 the Guitar Plyer add read "Own an "SG" for 1/2 a "G" - $499.00
The Carvin was what caught my attention. It's definitely a mid 80's Carvin DC160. I bought a white 1985 Carvin DC100 in 1985. The body was routed out the same as the DC150 and 160. So, I ordered the hardware and wired it up just like the 150 and 160. The mini toggles were for coil splitting and phase. It had two jacks. The bridge was actually made by Schaller and was awesome. It came stock with Grover tuners. The quilted maple on the DC160 was not just a cap. The whole thing was quilted maple. Hofner made Carvins at first, but by the time these came along, they were making them in Escondido, CA. I'm not impressed with Kiesel. I miss the old Carvin.
Carvin always wanted one when I first started playing.
The 91 studio looked nice
FOR SURE BRO!!!! Was gonna say the same exact thing the wine red with gold hardware is definitely the best combo IMHO. I have a Jerry Cantrell "wino" which I have tastefully modded with super quality hardware. Aged gold metal, all brass studs, posts and brass saddles. High quality bone nut and awesome open geared aged gold tuners. New aluminum Gotoh locking stop bar tail piece and locking tune-o-matic bridge with bell brass saddles, SwitchCraft toggle, 500k CTS pots, push/pull pots, high quality treble bleed and super nice Bare Knuckle capacitors. I'm done for now, and the only thing I could possibly do to make it any better is put a Fishman power bridge in, and 498t/490r pickups in the bridge and neck respectively. That would make this more closely related to Jerry's actual 1992 LP CUSTOM than even Gibson managed to do, and that Custom Shop artist signature is like 9,500k-11,000k so I think came out on top regardless of what ANYONE can say hahahaha😂😂😂😂. They are just salty, and feel guilty and stupid for spending that kind of bread when they could have just bought an actual 92' LP Custom for a fraction of the cost.... I gotta hand it to Gibson, they really do play on people's nostalgia and adolescence to sell over priced wall hangers😂😂😂.
Saw My Morning Jacket last week. The guitar player was sporting a zoot-suit SG
Candy Apple Red with GOLD Covers even, isn't that just amazingly beautiful ladies and gentlemen.
Humm I think I'll take the Dirty Fingers out my RD silverburst and put EMG,s in it NOT IN MY LIFETIME !! 😂
The bridge on the Carvin DC 160 is the now-discontinued Schaller 456, which was also used by Tony Iommi on his SGs and Jaydee "Old Boy".
Surprised you haven’t mentioned the 15% off discount on Gibson Demo shop store. I have a LP Classic en route to me now. Couldn’t pass up that price!
I talk about the MOD/Demo shop on Sundays
Pretty sad that a big chain has mis-labeled guitars on the website....either the editor didn't catch it, or they really don't know a lot about guitars...or both.
I “won” something difficult to obtain (difficult to obtain in North America) from “Mega-Lo-Mart” because it was mislabeled-they didn’t know what it was & made a super-common, “can’t really blame ‘em for not knowing,” sort of mistake in labeling & categorizing it. This is not a “bank-robbing” sort of situation, and it was all very small money. What I’m saying is it can work out good to be more educated about a product than a nation-wide big-time seller of such things-
It happens sometimes when uploading photos
It doesn't really matter though. Try garlic tablets.
You should remember the zoot suit with the mosaic top. It was listed on Reverb a year ago for $10K, and slowly dropped to $2K a few months ago. They swapped out the pickups and knobs, making it almost worthless. It may be impossible to remove the mosaic cleanly.
Hey, are you able to do a review of a Yamaha SG-3000 by any chance? Or a Ibanez Artist AR-300! Would love to see that!
That carvin guitar has a Schaller 456 bridge. Those things are going for about $400 these days. Hard to find since they were discontinued about a decade ago. I love those for wraptail guitars.
I'ld like that Firebrand husk!!
Balsa?? I used to build things with balsa as a kid, and it's too soft to be very resonant.
Greater than fresh air though.
I thought about going in guitar center and trading in a guitar but i know they will make me angry lol
Never seen an MIII Flying V. I guess that's not a factory original like those MIII Studios.
It's different, that's for sure.
“Guitar Center sent me the wrong guitar” would have been an awesome video if you had bought that Carvin and if they sent you an SG.
Wow. It has been too long since I've seen an L5 since Paul Simon used one in the late 70s to early 80s. Question: I thought that all Les Paul "studio" issues were in a flat finish. That first one shown is high gloss. Do you think that was a refinish?
I actually bought the first Blood Moon LP because it was the one that had all the case candy and its extremely clean. The $2499 one has a different case and paperwork for a different a different guitar. I was happy to get an extra 10% off
Can you please do a vid on the 83 Kramer reissue when it is available.
man you got a deal on the paul, I sure would hate to part it out. If I had seen it I would have got it. It can be repaired and.make a great player.I will keep an eye out for it when you sale it.I watch your videos daily, buf somehow I missed the previous video with the damaged paul. Thank you Trogly.
I bought a discounted Richie Kotzen tele with this sale from GC. Pretty good deals at the time. I had options which is rare.
Hello and great show~! What would a set of Late seventies Patent # pickups from a les Paul custom be worth with gold covers,... neck cover is very clean, treble pickup has some wear to the cover on both normal sides. They sound amazing
Thanks
That Flying V looks like Scott Grove creation, mirror guard, hsh guard with coil splits and a strat input Jack. Has to be something he sold.
I stared at the red ES-339 on the Mod Shop for 2 weeks, then I bought it this morning.
SG Dark had my attention.
did you say BLUCILLE!!!
That Blue Classic LP with P90s is really tempting at 1600usd. Nice!!
That 330, it looks like someone put in Gretsch controls (two switches, and a master volume), but upside down?
Okay, I'm still looking at the thumbnail photo at this point, but I'm ready to hazard a guess. From the pickups with 22 individual pole pieces, I believe this to be a Carvin. Something about the fretboard reinforces the feeling, although I couldn't tell you what about the fretboard makes me feel this way. That's my best, though ...
Guess what? Nailed it!🤯🥳
Trogly that double cut away was pretty sharp did you notice the horns?
I always thought Carvin guitars from the 70s were really nice.
That "Mozaic" zoot suit is at Mayfield Guitar Center in the Cleveland area, I picked it up and played it when they hung it on the wall. It's heavy as hell, and the pieces of glass are kinda sharp -- you'd cut the hell out of your hand strumming too hard.
Definitely something to pass on 😂😂😂
Not really. Excalibur Music sell a chain mail glove for this situation.
Rock on.
8:09 I always found these johnny a so cool! It would be nice to see a review of one!
Reverend did a guitar called the Manta Ray that kind of has Johnny A vibes, but not that pricy. Came in a few variations, 2 humbuckers, 2 P-90, 3 P-90, sometimes with a Bigsby. I have a 2 P-90 in with a great flame top. Standard locking tuners, and the body and neck are Korina, while the top is maple.
@@joermnyc I guess I've seen that, Joe! In general I think Reverend are great guitars!
some nice looking guitars, a few great Les Pauls, but prices were high. im not buying from guitar center, but musicians much nicer people and guitars. ive bought 10 from MF in last 20 year
You are the best advertisement for Gibson. Since they don't do squat themselves.they should be paying you.
Lmao they jacked the price of the Carvin to 2,200 bucks and changed the condition to good
GC's inattention to detail, paired with a model naming system by ibanez that is seemingly gibberish to people outside the know, has led to me getting guitars from them for fractions of what they should have cost. When I used to do this I would check their stock after/around 9:05am eastern time when it refreshed to try snd snake one of the deals, erroneous or not.
It's got this, it's got that,...Its Got CROOKED TUNERS...!?!? Typical Gibson Q.C.👎
The newer RD is shorter scale than the vintage RD’s.
I have 5 RD's, believe me, you can't tell the difference.
Howdy everyone!!!
Calling a studio dc a vintage 58’ vos reissue jr is pretty big mess up on their part
Give me that carvin, please..... ?
Trogly, you should check out a Gibson 2007 Firebird Guitar of the Week listed at Heyday Musical Instruments in Asheville, N.C. This might be something to add to your collection!!!
The only thing i got from this is Gibsons a really overpriced.
Rosewood vs Pau Ferro> richlite
In the mid to late 90's I ordered through carvins' catalogue "which I miss tearedly" an mts3200 full stack....it was life changing and affordable....like paying off a Carolla ......I miss the days of 100 watt tube stacks for under 700$....and the smell of bible thick mail order catalogs.....
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And the phone book?
Trogly, maybe u or someone can help me out... I remember in an old video you mentioned an online guitar shop where you can get 360 degree views of instruments (you know, like u can spin them around to see all sides). Which site was that? I'd love to check it out
@@ERiCtheBuLL awesome! Thank you 🙏 😁
@@SeanDS1989you're welcome. Your comment made me go visit it again after some time. Great site.
Wondering why you never do a Lee Roy Parnell Les Paul, are they just that rare, or not interesting enough? Thanks for the good laughs anyway.
The gold top is cool
@@Trog I'm thinking of the "one-way fade" one with slightly modified body shape!
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I simply do not understand why G.C., or anyone else for that matter, try to sell guitars on line with such ghastly photos. It's an automatic no sale for me.
Every time you make one of these videos I wonder if Guitar Center is trying not to sell used gear. Their used listings are so lazy in terms of details and photo quality, no excuse for either in this age.
Marketing strategy.
Whoosh.