If there was such a thing as a guitar license, whoever did that to this Gibson would probably have lost it for cruelty to guitars. Great job bringing it back!
I'm so glad you did the transparent dark brown on the back - it would have been a crime to cover up that beautiful mahogany grain. That's exactly what I hoped you'd do once I saw what was under the paint. And the Pelham blue metallic top was a nice choice as well.
I like both sides of this restoration. I loved the original paint job. This guitar has been to see the elephant and it has earned every one of its scars. Love it. Glad to see it get a new lease on life, but I'd also love to hear the stories from its early days.
Its what i always say, being a musician, using drugs and think you can paint, it aint working!! Glad you restored this guitar. Personaly i think more time spend on the routered inlays, sanding etc, then it would have been almost perfect. But, 110% better then it was! Well done!
@@rpaasse6453 But did he do a great job? There are a few in here that say they also restore guitars, they say he isn't that good. He looks very talented to me but I defer to the experts.
@@Ellis-zh3uv Yeah I feel you ;) I saw the title then the opening shot and my first thought was 'why?' I hate it when people think they have it over others. News flash - they don't.
I don't know why I like watching this - I also sometimes buy instruments in this condition at big garage sales - it's a kind of meditation to save musical instruments
I'd love to find cheap guitars like this in garage sales - unfortunately over here, in Europe, these instruments cost FAR too much to be so careless with 😜🤣🤣 Apparently some people just have money to burn....
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire she is1st Sunday, every Month ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69?
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69? and just bought an Epiphone for restoration for 170 on ebay
I actually think the original finish looked really cool. its too bad it wasn't executed and finished off a little better. your routing and plug work was a little excessive and could use some refinement but seems functionally OK. overall a nice looking resto-mod.
My first thought was “maybe this was a cheap knockoff of a Les Paul.” Then I saw the serial number and was pretty convinced that it was real. I’m still flabbergasted.
@@Schmigly_Beanpole pretty sure it is a Gibson Henry Juszkiewicz era “LPJ” which stands for Les Paul Juszkiewicz, not Les Paul Junior, believe it or not! They cost $1099 new with Gibson branded gig bag. They came in satin “rubbed” finishes and had painted over unexposed body binding. They were sold in 2013 and 2014. Came in Cherry, Chocolate, Goldtop, Rubbed Trans White and Rubbed Vintage Burst. They are one of the few Gibson guitars that have not gained in value and usually sell for $800 to $900 used.
Also, personally, if I was OP I would be conflicted… do I give it the original cherry finish, replace the wood and route it for humbuckers like it was from the factory or do I do what OP did and make it my own and damn the collector value? I guess if I wanted to sell it and get to make a profit at some point I would try to get it as close as possible to original… but if I was gonna keep it and play it I would have made it a gold top, kept the P90s and make it as close to a 1956 Les Paul standard as I could. The reason being that any buyer is gonna try to deduct value based on the dad that it is not original.
I saw some questionable methods in the process of this video. I was hoping you'd restore it back to factory specs but it's nice just the way it is. If you want you can alway route it for the dogeared p90s later but the result is beautiful all the same. Great job.
The original "Worn Cherry" finish on these LPJs was a really attractive finish, but was easy to damage. That's probably what caused someone to go nuts and refinish it, in the first place.
I'm on my second project bass just like that, haha...they are fun to do because you know you cannot go wrong, will always be better than they were. I relic them too, is more forgiving than bringing them back to new. Nico work and video 👍🏼 !
My God whoever did that to the guitar committed a heinous crime against the instrument, it was nothing short of a Travesty! What a great video, you did a great job........she came out beautiful. 🎸♥️
Interesting enough, back in the 70s while working the fair circuit ran into a band who had incredible playing instruments painted the most gawd awful things you could envision. They got tired of getting their equipment stolen, so made the stuff look so hideous no one wanted it. Worked.
I get that who ever painted that guitar before you got hold of i twas going for a Jackson Pollock type thing but wow did they make a bad job of it, well done on rescuing it.
Здравствуйте ! С интересом и с удовольствием просмотрел ВАШЕ видео . Работа и конечный результат очень впечатляют . ВАМ как Мастеру , респект ! Гитара получилась , просто загляденье , шикарная красавица с прекрасным звучанием . И играете ВЫ великолепно , браво ! 🎸🎵🎶👍👍👍
Glad you document the original conditions too - I actually thought that paint job was kind of cool... Hopefully it served the previous owner well with that design... but your updates are amazing too !
Because of damage in a house fire I completely removed the finish from a friends blonde Stratocaster down to the raw wood. Including the maple neck. Had intentions of applying new finish but we played it for quite a while and decided that we liked it that way. It's been nearly 50 years and it is still pretty much our favorite guitar. The wood has years of sweat and dirty hands and is very smooth. We like it.
Feel sorry for the pickup cavity🤣. So many ways to restore that cavity but he choose the worst way. Paint job looks good though but still preferred if it was restored to the original state
There is something mesmerizing and calming in watching you turn lost causes into real instruments again. It's so sad that you couldn't show the mahogany wood grain on the face of the instrument, but you made a great alternative choice. Great work!
I love these videos. Your level of craftsmanship and attention to detail is off the planet. Since watching your channel, I have been more attentive when cleaning and maintaining my guitars. Keep the awesome videos coming.
Great job bringing that abused LPJ back to life. I think you installed the bridge backwards, the screws usually are accessed from the tailpiece side of the bridge.
excellent job! it almost looks like they painted it with melted crayons. lol Thats alot of work for an $800 guitar, but id rather see them restored than junked. At least now it may be worth more than $800.
You hear how his gloves are sticking to the paint so it was just was just painted before the video. Gloves don't make that sound on paint if it's older and had months to dry.
I wish I had the chance to do this. Well done. Thank you for restoring these instruments, for giving them a new life. I actually think the orgonite resin "paint job" is visually appealing, but hard to say sonically, and how much market appeal it might have had. And to think that guitar has not got a broken headstock!! May be that's the most incredible part of its story yet.
nice job! you refinished it and brought it back to OG. cool that you went with P90s, what type of P90s did you end up putting in there? they sound badass, sort of a honky midrange tone
To my taste the guitar turned from "beautiful-color-badly-painted" to "regular-color-better-painted". But overall it become definitely better than it was
I absolutely love watching someone take something that someone made their own and bringing it back to corporate standards. I mean, who wants a guitar that's unique? No one. You stripped the paint and gave it the face of a teenage girl. Excellent work.
While typically I am not a fan of a painted body on a guitar the front was too far gone on this one to do anything else. I was glad to see you do a natural wood finish clear on the sides and back it really is a fantastic improvement what you've done to the guitar over what it looked like before you started
A valiant effort but, that paint and wood repair have issues. You can see the wood repair under the paint from across the street. Still a hundred times better than it was, so there's that.
@@horusluprecal1144 A little gain, treble on 10 bass on 4 mids at 4 and reverb on 3 at the amp, and tone on 4/5 at the guitar blended between the two. Crank that amp up and when it starts to wheeze roll back the gain a little. That's how i set up my sound with the P90's.
I often wonder about what a temptation it would be to manufacture pieces to restore... Despite that suspicion, this is a repair job that would make most luthiers cry. It's terrible.
The front paint job could be much better, it's pretty easy to see the square outlines around the pickup cavity. This happens because the wood itself was not prepared well before painting, more sanding was needed to make it as even as possible (between the body wood and the wood inserted, then grain filler sound be applied, at least 2 coats with sanding between them, the goal here is to make both types of wood as close as possible with no noticeable transition between them. Also the primer and paint seem to need some more coats
My dream guitar is a Gibson hummingbird left handed. That was always my dad's dream also but he never even had a last handed guitar, just a right handed with the strings upside down. He died before I could get him one myself.
You didn’t rebuild that guitar, you resurrected it! Great job
Honestly the paint job isn't as bad as the atrocity committed against the pickup cavity.
Nail biting moment for sure...
Sort of james Tyler style
+1000
Just looking at that made me produce a diamond in my butthole.
If there was such a thing as a guitar license, whoever did that to this Gibson would probably have lost it for cruelty to guitars. Great job bringing it back!
I'm so glad you did the transparent dark brown on the back - it would have been a crime to cover up that beautiful mahogany grain. That's exactly what I hoped you'd do once I saw what was under the paint. And the Pelham blue metallic top was a nice choice as well.
I like both sides of this restoration. I loved the original paint job. This guitar has been to see the elephant and it has earned every one of its scars. Love it. Glad to see it get a new lease on life, but I'd also love to hear the stories from its early days.
Nice job. It would have been interesting to hear the tone of the instrument before you remade it. Thanks and take care.
What was done to that guitar was reprehensible. What you did for that guitar was remarkable. Outstanding effort!
The state in which the former owner left this guitar was heartbreaking. It's so satisfying to see you bringing it to life again !
Its what i always say, being a musician, using drugs and think you can paint, it aint working!!
Glad you restored this guitar.
Personaly i think more time spend on the routered inlays, sanding etc, then it would have been almost perfect.
But, 110% better then it was! Well done!
Ah, a critic. I always like a good critic. 😀
@@Ellis-zh3uv Critic, maybe, woodworker...yes.
But, like i said, he did a great job.
@@rpaasse6453 But did he do a great job? There are a few in here that say they also restore guitars, they say he isn't that good. He looks very talented to me but I defer to the experts.
@@Ellis-zh3uv Yeah I feel you ;) I saw the title then the opening shot and my first thought was 'why?' I hate it when people think they have it over others. News flash - they don't.
Essa cor azul não gostei mas ficou muito bom a reconstrução
It never ceases to amaze me how you bring these horribly treated instruments back to life
first of all he took a normal instrument anf make it look like this to make a video content for simpletons
@@sergeyv4908 I don't think so. Where do you get your info from?
I don't know why I like watching this - I also sometimes buy instruments in this condition at big garage sales - it's a kind of meditation to save musical instruments
I'd love to find cheap guitars like this in garage sales - unfortunately over here, in Europe, these instruments cost FAR too much to be so careless with 😜🤣🤣
Apparently some people just have money to burn....
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire she is1st Sunday, every Month ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69?
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69? and just bought an Epiphone for restoration for 170 on ebay
@@claudevieaul1465 TH-cam bans my messages when I write where there are such guitars - already banned three messages
Very well done, I would never guess they were the same guitar if I was shown 2 photos side by side. Excellent work!
見ていて気持ちの良い再生でした！ザグリの修正を木で埋めてしまうとは、、脱帽です👍
you took what looked like a "meteor marble" guitar finish and made it into a work of art, amazing work.
I actually think the original finish looked really cool. its too bad it wasn't executed and finished off a little better. your routing and plug work was a little excessive and could use some refinement but seems functionally OK. overall a nice looking resto-mod.
I like the P90's, they always give a Les Paul a terrific sound. Dig the knobbly knees you should go in for contests.
Love that He's playing Toe to demo the guitar. great!
Thank you for bringing this beautiful guitar back to life.
Man, some people do really stupid stuff to their guitars.
My first thought was “maybe this was a cheap knockoff of a Les Paul.” Then I saw the serial number and was pretty convinced that it was real. I’m still flabbergasted.
@@Schmigly_Beanpole oh it’s real, 100%
@@danielktdoranie it makes the crazy epoxy coating much worse in context now lol
@@Schmigly_Beanpole pretty sure it is a Gibson Henry Juszkiewicz era “LPJ” which stands for Les Paul Juszkiewicz, not Les Paul Junior, believe it or not! They cost $1099 new with Gibson branded gig bag. They came in satin “rubbed” finishes and had painted over unexposed body binding. They were sold in 2013 and 2014. Came in Cherry, Chocolate, Goldtop, Rubbed Trans White and Rubbed Vintage Burst.
They are one of the few Gibson guitars that have not gained in value and usually sell for $800 to $900 used.
Also, personally, if I was OP I would be conflicted… do I give it the original cherry finish, replace the wood and route it for humbuckers like it was from the factory or do I do what OP did and make it my own and damn the collector value?
I guess if I wanted to sell it and get to make a profit at some point I would try to get it as close as possible to original… but if I was gonna keep it and play it I would have made it a gold top, kept the P90s and make it as close to a 1956 Les Paul standard as I could.
The reason being that any buyer is gonna try to deduct value based on the dad that it is not original.
I saw some questionable methods in the process of this video. I was hoping you'd restore it back to factory specs but it's nice just the way it is. If you want you can alway route it for the dogeared p90s later but the result is beautiful all the same. Great job.
The original "Worn Cherry" finish on these LPJs was a really attractive finish, but was easy to damage. That's probably what caused someone to go nuts and refinish it, in the first place.
Love the blue and wood look. Another very nicely restored guitar. I'd buy that one!
I'm on my second project bass just like that, haha...they are fun to do because you know you cannot go wrong, will always be better than they were. I relic them too, is more forgiving than bringing them back to new.
Nico work and video 👍🏼 !
My God whoever did that to the guitar committed a heinous crime against the instrument, it was nothing short of a Travesty! What a great video, you did a great job........she came out beautiful. 🎸♥️
Interesting enough, back in the 70s while working the fair circuit ran into a band who had incredible playing instruments painted the most gawd awful things you could envision. They got tired of getting their equipment stolen, so made the stuff look so hideous no one wanted it. Worked.
I like the way you eliminated that broken circuit board
I get that who ever painted that guitar before you got hold of i twas going for a Jackson Pollock type thing but wow did they make a bad job of it, well done on rescuing it.
Здравствуйте ! С интересом и с удовольствием просмотрел ВАШЕ видео . Работа и конечный результат очень впечатляют . ВАМ как Мастеру , респект ! Гитара получилась , просто загляденье , шикарная красавица с прекрасным звучанием . И играете ВЫ великолепно , браво ! 🎸🎵🎶👍👍👍
Big improvement over the train wreck of a paint/hacking that poor guitar had undergone
Glad you document the original conditions too - I actually thought that paint job was kind of cool... Hopefully it served the previous owner well with that design... but your updates are amazing too !
Because of damage in a house fire I completely removed the finish from a friends blonde Stratocaster down to the raw wood. Including the maple neck. Had intentions of applying new finish but we played it for quite a while and decided that we liked it that way. It's been nearly 50 years and it is still pretty much our favorite guitar. The wood has years of sweat and dirty hands and is very smooth. We like it.
Feel sorry for the pickup cavity🤣. So many ways to restore that cavity but he choose the worst way. Paint job looks good though but still preferred if it was restored to the original state
Great work - you have given that poor old, neglected and abused instrument a new lease of life, and it looks absolute gorgeous!
There is something mesmerizing and calming in watching you turn lost causes into real instruments again. It's so sad that you couldn't show the mahogany wood grain on the face of the instrument, but you made a great alternative choice. Great work!
Jesus... that nearly qualifies as a crime against humanity itself. Good job with the restoration!
Oh man, that is so nice. What it looked like before was atrocious. Great job.
You did an AMAZING job on this beautiful guitar. I was sad in the begging to see how the previous owner destroyed it. Awesome job :)
お疲れ様でした😅
なかなか良いブルーですね。
今回もありがとうございました🎉
I love these videos. Your level of craftsmanship and attention to detail is off the planet. Since watching your channel, I have been more attentive when cleaning and maintaining my guitars. Keep the awesome videos coming.
It looks good and it has some character to it. I like the slight imperfections. It's a great player guitar.
Thanks for giving this guitar a second chance
You turned a piece of junk and turned it into something beautiful really impressed with your work sir thank you for sharing
Great job bringing that abused LPJ back to life. I think you installed the bridge backwards, the screws usually are accessed from the tailpiece side of the bridge.
excellent job! it almost looks like they painted it with melted crayons. lol Thats alot of work for an $800 guitar, but id rather see them restored than junked. At least now it may be worth more than $800.
Great job, congratulation, this is the state in wich we want to see a Les Paul...
You hear how his gloves are sticking to the paint so it was just was just painted before the video. Gloves don't make that sound on paint if it's older and had months to dry.
Absolutely brilliant work on that poor abused guitar! Now see if you can do the same for those pants. : D You rock, dude!
I wish I had the chance to do this. Well done. Thank you for restoring these instruments, for giving them a new life.
I actually think the orgonite resin "paint job" is visually appealing, but hard to say sonically, and how much market appeal it might have had. And to think that guitar has not got a broken headstock!! May be that's the most incredible part of its story yet.
The matte pelham blue is so pretty, one of my favorite colors
I tuoi video sono rilassanti, ma ti faccio i complimenti per la cura che hai per tutte le tue opere.
この塗装が逆に好き
俺も思った。
直す前の塗装。後ろは流石に酷いけど、塗り（塗装の方向性）は面白い
（カッコいい）とは素直に思ったね。
何かアンコウかオコゼの側みたいだけど・・・ｗ
うわ、これギブソンなんだ。ギブソンでやっちゃ駄目だな～。
この手の事はエピフォンかバーニーかラブロックでやらないと！ｗ
最後まで見ました。
凄いですね。素直にお店におけますね。
余計な事ですが・・・、ズボンもリペアーした方がいいかも・・・ｗ
わかる普通にボディはかっこいい
nice job! you refinished it and brought it back to OG. cool that you went with P90s, what type of P90s did you end up putting in there? they sound badass, sort of a honky midrange tone
毒毒しい色から綺麗なボディーのギターになってギターも喜んでいるみたいですね。
お疲れ様でした。
Wowwwe!!! Wonderful!!! Grandissimo lavoro!! Un artista!!🔝🔝
To my taste the guitar turned from "beautiful-color-badly-painted" to "regular-color-better-painted". But overall it become definitely better than it was
Very good work man, kaizen, only things I d do different would be black reflector knobs and no pickguard, otherwise it's perfect
You can still see the square outlines around the pickup cavity.
They are called witness lines and unfortunately there really isn’t much he could do to eliminate them completely. That was a lot of hole to plug.
@@SwingingCreeper That's what she said
I absolutely love watching someone take something that someone made their own and bringing it back to corporate standards. I mean, who wants a guitar that's unique? No one. You stripped the paint and gave it the face of a teenage girl. Excellent work.
While typically I am not a fan of a painted body on a guitar the front was too far gone on this one to do anything else. I was glad to see you do a natural wood finish clear on the sides and back it really is a fantastic improvement what you've done to the guitar over what it looked like before you started
Real nice job. Not crazy about the color(think you should have made a ‘burst’. But BRAVO,
Great vid. I think i'd have filled the pickup holes first then cut the holes, but it turned out fab thanks!
What a mess. Nice restoration, some people have more money than sense 😊
An astonishing job all over. My personal issue is with the new paint pick, but there are alway differing tastes.
これまたヒドイ目にあったギターを見事に綺麗にしていただきありがとうございます！
should have spent more time blending in the wood patches, they look really rough .
Ah, another critic. I see I can't go into this business with you guys watching. 😀
@@Ellis-zh3uv but hes right, you can still see the seams after paint too
A valiant effort but, that paint and wood repair have issues. You can see the wood repair under the paint from across the street. Still a hundred times better than it was, so there's that.
Well, after the third criticism of this restore, I have to assume this guy could have done better. But it looks really good to us lookie loos.
Great restoration however leaving that cracked rear plate killed me... after you did so much to only leave that one tiny little detail
Non riesco a credere che qualcuno abbia maltrattato una Gibson in quella maniera. Complimenti per il tuo ottimo lavoro di restauro 😊
Fantastic job!!
Dear god!!! I feel so bad for this guitar and im a drum player. No instrument in all creations should be treated like this.
You Sir are a great artist! ❤❤❤ The Magnificent Guitar Doctor! 🫡🫡🫡🦸🦸🦸
On a low budget too, the fact that you kept pretty much everything and re used it was impressive, great job.
IMHO I wished he would have replaced those pickups.
I've got nothing against P-90s but those ones sound terrible, especially distorted.
@@horusluprecal1144 A little gain, treble on 10 bass on 4 mids at 4 and reverb on 3 at the amp, and tone on 4/5 at the guitar blended between the two. Crank that amp up and when it starts to wheeze roll back the gain a little. That's how i set up my sound with the P90's.
@@manofthewest67 OK. That might work for YOUR P-90s and amp combo but i wasn't talking about YOUR set up. I was talking about the ones in the video.
Great job saving that one!! At first it looked like you were gonna have permanent pick up rings .made of wood!!
Well done! It started out as a high priced piece of junk and now the guitar looks awesome. Thanks for the video.
really nice color. I love this blue! Well done Mate
It's fantastic! Very good job, nice sound.👍
Honestly, I think I enjoyed your play testing as much as the restoration! I like your unique musical ideas.
Its At The Drive In. Listen to more music
Nice recovering ❤️🩹, I would have done another color, but that’s personal preference. Nice job ya did there. Now work on your playing.
That's probably the most beautiful Les Paul I've ever seen. Great job, bud.
You do somethings in an unconventional way which makes what you do an art form In itself. You sir are a master!!!!
演奏されてるの、孤独の発明 leave word ...
toeですね！！！
Holyshit bro you killed it!!! Didnt look like much hope for that guitar, but not its just beautiful . Great job!!
Much prefer the modified look at the very start.
Nice, but the inserts are not blended fully into the body. Should use filler and more sanding to remove those lines.
Nice job man. Looks really nice!
so punk rock. Great craftsmanship.
Amazing work as usual brother!!!
Personally, I would have gone for gold top and cream humbuckers ( the original routs were for humbuckers).
Outstanding work! Rescueing music instruments is on the same level as rescueing animals in need in my book. Well done and thank you.
Nice job, now get the sewing machine out and start working on your pants 😅
Nice work beautiful choice of colour👌
I often wonder about what a temptation it would be to manufacture pieces to restore... Despite that suspicion, this is a repair job that would make most luthiers cry. It's terrible.
The front paint job could be much better, it's pretty easy to see the square outlines around the pickup cavity. This happens because the wood itself was not prepared well before painting, more sanding was needed to make it as even as possible (between the body wood and the wood inserted, then grain filler sound be applied, at least 2 coats with sanding between them, the goal here is to make both types of wood as close as possible with no noticeable transition between them. Also the primer and paint seem to need some more coats
Looks like a 2014 Gibson LPJ (junior). They only made that style for a couple of years, I think
My dream guitar is a Gibson hummingbird left handed. That was always my dad's dream also but he never even had a last handed guitar, just a right handed with the strings upside down. He died before I could get him one myself.
19:37 looking at the gap in the filled in pickup route wondering why it's not getting filled before paint smh....
Helluva job! Beautiful!
Aye that's what I call a transformation and the colour choice spot on
Restoration 70% playing 40%👍🏼😂😂😂
That was quite the transformation! This has been my favorite episode so far! Excellent effort, skill and craftsmanship! Good work! 👍🏾🤘🏾
That’s why you shouldn’t do drugs, your brain looks exactly like that guitar.
元のグレードよりも上位モデルみたいな仕上がり
ロゴがプリントの時点でそれはないだろ。。
このままの見た目で新品でいくらでも売ってるぞ。
@@かきぴ-u6l 確かにそうなんですが、色がキレイって言いたかっただけです。すみません。
@@pipe_koma
凄くなったと言うよりは、元々綺麗だったやつがひどい状態になって、元に戻したって感じかな。
パッと見綺麗だけど、ところどころ荒れてるよ塗装も。
@@かきぴ-u6lライブで遠目で見たらばれん。
なんでわざわざ褒めてるのを落とそうとするん？？