This episode was recorded a few days ago so many of these guitars have since sold - but the Feed Delay is still going on... Now you know my secret! 💰New to Reverb? Get $10 on Me - reverb.grsm.io/earn10 🔴Reverb: reverb.com/item/28370988-gibson-les-paul-studio-1983-1989?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly
You got to be careful here man you don't want to give your secret to everybody you might hurt your own personal business. It could be like a firecracker going off in your hand. It's nice to tell people about it, but people might start snatching them up before even you can get to them?
I have a 2003 Les Paul Classic, so I was excited at first when I thought you would cover this guitar, but then it was short lived when I saw it was the Classic “rock” version. I’d like to know the value and your opinion of these guitars.
Haha - I kept seeing it as the inverse image where the orange was the subject of the piece and the dark portion didn't matter. I didn't even catch it while editing either!
The Trogly's Guitar Show I went back & looked after reading this comment, I see what you mean, I’ve never looked at it like that, my brain just automatically sees Batman lol
@@Trog yeah yeah sure sure... Lol. At first I thought he just sanded off the black finish and left the black to make the bat, but the access cover is that tan color as well so it must either be painted on or a sticker.
I have one of those SG baritones you mentioned. The oversized body and the slightly thicker neck make it such an incredibly comfortable guitar to play. No SG neck dive either!
22401 could very well be a typo. I'm in Fredericksburg VA (probably near that guy who posted an insane shipping cost) and that's my (and probably his) ZIP code.
I like that we can see you react and comment on these now, despite your standard casual outfits 🤣 But there’s a new level of authenticity when you show up on camera. I’m always grateful for your knowledge and opinions. I REALLY want that pinstripe Explorer, speaking as a child of the ‘70’s that thing should hang out with me for a few years. 🙏
I ran into an old elementary school friend about 20 years ago. He was and is a hell of a nice guy, following rant will explain. We are hanging out, havent seen each other in years, having a beer or 2 and catching up. When I tell him I play guitar he says, " check this out. Give it a spin". His father had died and left him a Gibson es semi hollow, with a vintage fender amp. As I lit up playing it, and kept telling him how awesome his gear is he says " geeze man, I would really like to give this to you, but my dad left it to me..." What!? Stop! Do not give this to anyone, you have an absolute special find with the guitar and amp. Some people have no idea the nature of their items . That old Gibson was not only expensive and collectible, but had huge sentimental value. And the guy still wanted to give it to me. I hope he still has it.
Thank God for this channel. After the corona virus, there are videos of people in Asia, eating anything that slithers, crawls, swims, walks, runs, flies and anything else that I missed. Ahhh... guitars, carry on.
Hey Trogly, thank you very much for the Reverb pro tip! I was able to get myself a Bareknuckle Juggernaut set for $180USD while a single piece is listed around that price. Cheers mate
I just had a good week on Reverb... Thursday night I picked up a beautiful 2011 Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded with active EMG 81/85 for less than $600 + shipping. And tonight snagged a vintage Marshall Valvestate VS100RH head for $200 shipped offer, and it only needs an input jack replaced (supposedly...We'll see once it gets here). I know, I know... Folks hate on the Valvestates because they're hybrid amps, but for an iconic 90's heavy metal/hard rock sound, the Marshall 8100/VS100RH heads are right up there with the Peavey 5150 tube heads. Wayne Static (Static-X) almost exclusively used the Marshall 8100/VS100 heads. So did TONS of other famous bands of the 90's. Plus, for nostalgia, my first "real" amp was a new in '95 Valvestate VS100R 1x12 combo. Still have it. Still sounds amazing. And I bet this new VS100RH will sound amazing through my Blackstar S1 412 Pro cab w/ custom-voiced Celestion V30's. 👍🏻
@@12south31 Yeah, I got my first Valvestate VS100R 1x12 combo back in '97 or so, when I was a kid. Still got that amp, and it's in mint condition. So, I have a bit of a sentimental connection to the Valvestate amps. Plus, most haters are people who have never used one, or have no idea how to dial one in. Once you get it dialed in, it's probably the nicest sounding solid-state amp you've ever heard, thanks to that single 12ax7 preamp tube. Swapping out the original Marshall tube for a high-quality Tung-Sol, Genelax, or Mullard makes a difference, too. 🤘🏻
@@12south31 If you check out my channel, I've got a video playing through my Valvestate amp's Warm Clean channel with my LP 1960 Tribute Plus. Excuse the shitty playing, I'm just demoing equipment and sounds in this one, testing it out after swapping the tube and doing some cleanup and stuff. 👍🏻 th-cam.com/video/KwsL3nDZn6Y/w-d-xo.html
I love the pattern on that designer Explorer, but I think that's mostly because I started playing in '85 and it looks like something I would have seen in a local music store back than so it's feels very nostalgic to me.
That 1953 Les Paul Custom had the 22nd fret ripped right out of the fretboard in your video. The ebony looked badly chipped from that too, repairable but the price would come down for that.
My cousins have a band and their lead guitarist had one of the Rock Les Paul's, and you were right, it looks just like a kitchen counter top. His was the white/light grey/dark grey swirl, like it's supposed to be quartz granite or something. I had never heard of them and at first I thought it was some Chibson import fake. Nope. He turned it for about $3k and I was stunned. He ended up buying a Helix with it and some cash left over. The build quality was very poor and he was the first/original owner, so nothing had been done to it.
I have a lake placid blue les paul gothic. It had a break at the neckjoint and is repaired. The frets have been leveled crowned and polished. It's a great guitar. It's actually the one I played tonight. I can let you have this one for 600 shipped if you want it. Locking tuners, roller bridge, and duncans.
I had the pickguard on a '97 Limited Edition Les Paul Jr TVDC do the off-gassing thing about three years after I bought it. A what? They were a Japanese market special run with historic specs and a faux tortoiseshell pickguard. The guard on mine went weird and oily in a "I don't remember it looking like that a few months ago" way. I changed the strings on it and put it on a stand, then went on vacation for a week. When I got back the off-gassing had corroded the strings so much that the E & B had snapped. Suffice it to say that the guitar has had a back guard made by a local repair guy on it for the last fifteen years. My other off-gassing horror story concerns a mid 90's CIJ Jazzmaster in Fotoflame. I case queened it for about a year and "something" off-gassed, resulting in the pickup covers and whammy bar tip getting very yellowed, and all the finish on the guitar had started to crack up and peel off. The thing has looked like it has a nasty skin disease ever since, and like my other 90's Fotoflame Fender is in serious need of a re-finish.
The ABR-1 on the '50s Black Beauty is a no-wire one ... easily worth over $1,000 by itself in even in okay condition (not bent!) BUT the saddles were very likely replaced (you can tell because of the beveled screws, on '50s ones the screws didn't have bevels but by the early '60s they added them to prevent strings from contacting them. Plus the saddles were sharp as knives, I once found one that was new old stock and the saddles weren't any sharper than that so for a guitar with as much playwear as this, that seems "off". That's what's tricky about these really old guitars, I only know this tiny detail because I researched it heavily (because I owned one) and every part on a guitar of this vintage guitar also can be dated by minute detail that most people won't know about. And it does effect value if parts are not right, even parts of parts, so be careful.
These videos are interesting to me cause I have never been a Gibson fan and never understood peoples obsession for Gibson. After watching many of Trogly's videos I still don't get it. The Norlin era, they seem to try anything they could to build the guitars cheap and in the last 30 years the only thing to justify the high prices is the name Gibson. They also have the worst aging finishes of any guitar company. Don't get me wrong. they do make good guitars but no better than any other top tier guitar brands and in my opinion not as good as some. I guess it just comes down to tradition why people love the old brands like Gibson and Fender.
You are 100% correct sir. It pains me that they do some awesome paint jobs like the swirl les paul in this video, or any really nice burst with a flame top and cover it all with a crappy nitro finnish. It should not be used in anything ever if you want it to stay pristine. I get it if someone wants their guitar to relic faster then sure yeah. You don't see the finnish crapping out on even the cheapest guitars like they do on Gibsons.
interesting that you would watch them? i dont peruse Yoko Ono forums because she sounds like a seagull who ate a porcupine then was shot with a rocket launcher so i wouldnt be interested,see my point? play a gibson,even norlin era and you might find you are not right but read too many opinions and think opinion=fact which it absolutely doesn't.any comment that starts with "im not a fan of"= douchebag or idiot imo
Stand rash is bad but keeping a guitar in the case is a good reason not to play it. I keep mine hanging on the wall with a guitar wall hangers. What's your opinion about long term stress on the head and neck?
How would you recommend shopping for random and obscure guitars that arent fenders or gibsons? I like to collect a lot of strange off branded stuff from the 60s and 70s and early 80s
I know you know everything Gibson, and this video is old, BUT in case you didn’t know, Gibson sales were so so poor in 2015 that by the end of the year they released some Special Runs with no weight relief, no robot tuners, traditional neck, etc… they only kept the logo in the back and the brass nut. Bought a Studio Les Paul like that, still have it
I owned a dot neck Les Paul back in the 80s when I could hardly play. It was a beautiful red kind of a sparkly finish. There was no designated name on it and it came in a Chain saw case. I traded it for something else. It was I think earlier then 85.
@@218maryland really is a horrible idea. Too many fat lazy people these days. One of my local music stores just had to close down and they sold a brand new Mexican strat for $320. Yes... A brand new Mexican strat for 320. A telecaster as well. Tough market lol as many people are also cheapskates
I've been doing it for 20 years. Very little money for the work put in. Now I just pick and choose certain Charvels or Fenders I get for a good price and then flip them. Don't expect to make a living at it.
LP Baritone is high. sold are 1300-1600 ish. a pewter one, also intn'l, for higher in "good" condition. the Agile w/ Fishmans is peaking my curiosity. this epi was a blast- who cares if you don't know Batman- you know a shrinking pick guard. Ü ♫
Austin: Thanks for discussing the ES Artist pickguard. I have a 1980 model and love the thing but that guard had to go; all was good until about two years ago when I found the pups turning green. I took the guard off, removed it's metal parts and stored them separately in baggies and fortunately the guitar finish polished up ok. Do you have any idea why this specific pickguard is so bad? It's such a fancy thing compared to the ones on my other Gibsons; beautiful to look at and with binding too, but useless. One more watch-out for these guitars is that the black foam rubber, used to protect the circuit board from the 9V battery, disintegrates at around 35 years +/-. Mine was just fine one year and then when I changed the battery the following year, the cavity was full of black powder. I just carefully vacuumed it out and there is now a piece of soft cloth doing the job. The guitar is exceptionally well made and plays really well. The Moog electronics are a little odd and really superfluous but do produce some really interesting tones.
Just a little side note regarding the LP Gothic with a chip in the finish, as Austin said it can indeed be fixed, a mate of mine has a Fender that its neck finish cracked all along the skunk stripe from the truss rod being over tightened. Structural issues aside, it was VERY uncomfortable to play. He took it to my luthier of trust and it was all glued up and sanded smooth, even without having to refill the crack with finish, it became imperceptible - the key here is leaving something as delicate as the finish to someone who knows their craft.
yes please, everybody sticks their neck out for vintage Gibsons and Fenders, but I rarely hear people talk about the 70s and 80s Yamaha designs. Their new SGs are the best double cut guitars you can buy today, in my opinion.
I tried hunting for classic Gibsons in my country. Gave up when the best deal I could find was a headstock repaired Firebrand Les Paul with replaced pickups and a worn off finish at $1800
One of the reasons I don't particularly like Gibsons and Les Paup in particular if the somewhat fragility of the finish ans the neck in particular. I like the Pickup and electronics control scheme.
Wesley alan He commented: The Trogly's Guitar Show - 12 hours ago Haha - I kept seeing it as the inverse image where the orange was the subject of the piece and the dark portion didn't matter. I didn't even catch it while editing either! I think he was serious
I love this channel...but I never knew Dwight Schrute had a guitar TH-cam channel! Great information...I have contemplated buying some collector guitars but the potential for rip-off scares me.
I might actually know who owns that flames top natural Les Paul Studio. Pretty sure it belonged to another MyLesPaul forum member. That place became a cesspool. The original Les Paul Custom with the staple pickup is my number one dream guitar.
Lot of infighting, self righteous mods with God complexes and an owner who refused to get their attitudes under control until one of them burned him, silly crap like that. I had been there from almost the very beginning, I was member number 14.
i wish reverb would recommend more strongly to sellers to post picture of the serial number. You can screw up your description, get date and specs wrong, but if you post the serial the potential buyers will know exactly what you're selling, even if you don't.
My dads got a 53 custom like the one in the video, the only thing replaced is the pots because they wore out but he still has the original ones, it's a rad guitar.
You are just convincing yourself that you are finding a bargain. They are still showing up in the new listings section, just not in individual feeds. The prices are not reduced, they are the sellers full asking prices. And finally, if anyone has made a mistake, they can easily cancel the sale.
What the hell are those shrinking pick guards gassing off? Hydrogen gas? I have only seen that type of corrosion once and it was to a car battery charger that sat too close to charging batteries, the venting hydrogen gas from the battery causes that type of corrosion. That guitars corrosion on the metal parts are consistent with hydrogen gases being vented from the pick guard. And now you know why you never charge a car battery in your house, especially if you smoke in your house.
A lot of stuff comes up rather pricey to ship if you live on the coast. I always have to assume my buyer is going to make me ship clear across the country to CA. If you live in Ohio or something than yeah $60 will cover it but if you live on the East Coast it can get stupid expensive to ship to the West Coast.
I have the 2000 Goth LP and Explorer, awesome axes, HOT PU's, love ebony fretboards, my fav. I think they have 58 specs. I've gigged and played mine alot. If yhou want to do a review on it maybe we can get together.
Hey any tips on buying a good strat (pref seafoam green or sonic blue) for 500 - 800? Like which you would recommend most? I am currently looking at a 1997 strat (mim) deluxe plus in good condition. and theres plenty of the 2015-2017 50s ones... anyways just wanted your quick advice! thanks !
Being in Australia, the local mark up is a rip off. Reverb is the way to go for us because even with shipping, it's still cheaper than getting it locally.
I suppose there are hardcore collectors out there that buy and trade or sell old Gibsons - the problem is that for actually playing many of these Gibsons - it would take some TLC to restore most and likely would not sound that much different from the new 2020 Epiphones at $500 - $700 that have been made with the latest equipment and techniques overseas. I have seen fairly high-quality no-name brands of Les Pauls that go for under $200. And just like Squire to Fender Strats - a lot of folks love the sound of the cheaper versions. None of the guitars I own - I bought - were over $150 - so all of these Gibson's simply give me sticker shock. The biggest difference I have found between low and high cost involves the material that the nut and saddle on the instruments are made of - which I replace myself with bone. I have friends with enormously expensive guitars that tell me that they like the sound of my guitars better than their main favorite. 10 to 20 years of aging also seems to bring out top of the line tones - with no scratches, dents, dings, chips or cracks happening like in those pictures of Gibsons. So - why do these high-end instruments have all these little issues? I own Epiphone, Squire, Ibanez, Rhapsody( over 40 years old ), and a new Orangewood acoustic( got it sounding like a Martin.) I also bought a low-cost Rogue 4 string bass - that I tweaked until it sounded like Lemmy from Motorhead. 3 guitars cost $99, 1 guitar cost $40, 1 guitar cost $111, and 1 cost $150. Total cost: $598 for 6 instruments. Beat that all you cheapskates out there! All were bought new except for the Rhapsody, which now has a little fretboard wear. I can live with that. And in the end for me - it's more about learning and playing guitar than collecting. I also - for some strange reason - never bothered to notice what guitar my favorite musicians played - which I think is why the Gibson brand holds little mystic or cache'. Value is in the eye of the beholder, though. If you got the cash and you love the instrument - go for it.
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 I bought a hundred dollar guitar that is now worth $350 on the open market today - and poverty isn't a crime - it's a condition of opportunity and health. I am retired and on a fixed income and my health isn't great. If you want to send me a very expensive guitar as a present - I would not turn it down, only to say that it is the person playing the guitar that matters more than the guitar. Thank you for your advice, though. I sound like me on ANY guitar I play - but if you are happy playing expensive guitars and can afford it be my guest. That was the whole purpose of what I was saying anyway. You don't need an expensive guitar to sound like a million bucks.
That's the beauty of living in the UK, courier charges are not that expensive. For a good well protected cased guitar in an outter cardboard box wouldn't cost much more than £30 nationwide. Might be the land of oportunity but it's also the land of extortionate couriers.
What do you suggest to use to clean the fretboard? I find most of my gear off of facebook and craigslist and usually just wipe the frets down with a dry rag.
This episode was recorded a few days ago so many of these guitars have since sold - but the Feed Delay is still going on... Now you know my secret!
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Pronouncing it as "Vib-ro-mate" instead od "Vibe-ro-mate" sounds better. "Vibe-ro-mate" sounds like a 1950's marital aid... 🤣
You got to be careful here man you don't want to give your secret to everybody you might hurt your own personal business. It could be like a firecracker going off in your hand. It's nice to tell people about it, but people might start snatching them up before even you can get to them?
Holy shit Batman!!
@@TroyPosey ..haha,yeah!
I have a 2003 Les Paul Classic, so I was excited at first when I thought you would cover this guitar, but then it was short lived when I saw it was the Classic “rock” version. I’d like to know the value and your opinion of these guitars.
Did you just call the batman logo "butterfly"???
yes, yes he did... lol
Oh dear...
Haha - I kept seeing it as the inverse image where the orange was the subject of the piece and the dark portion didn't matter. I didn't even catch it while editing either!
The Trogly's Guitar Show I went back & looked after reading this comment, I see what you mean, I’ve never looked at it like that, my brain just automatically sees Batman lol
Me, scrolling through the comments searching for this comment...🤣
Lol Butterfly? Austin!! That's the Batman logo!
look at it only seeing the orange and not pay attention to the black portion and you'll see what I saw haha
@@Trog yeah yeah sure sure... Lol. At first I thought he just sanded off the black finish and left the black to make the bat, but the access cover is that tan color as well so it must either be painted on or a sticker.
@@Trog trog you should have just told everybody you were trolling
Lmao
Butterfly 🤦🏻♂️
On Reverb you get killer deals
On Craiglist you get killers
LMAO funny. I know you're joking but I scored two Kiesels for 400 each on Craigslist.
@@tavicotavio LMAO so true
@Isaac A lol good ol Rudy
I have one of those SG baritones you mentioned. The oversized body and the slightly thicker neck make it such an incredibly comfortable guitar to play. No SG neck dive either!
I love the on-line hunts. I learn an amazing amount of useful info in such a short time.
22401 could very well be a typo. I'm in Fredericksburg VA (probably near that guy who posted an insane shipping cost) and that's my (and probably his) ZIP code.
Yeah, it's a butterfly!
Right!?
My favorite super hero, Butterflyman!
Nice!
I like that we can see you react and comment on these now, despite your standard casual outfits 🤣 But there’s a new level of authenticity when you show up on camera. I’m always grateful for your knowledge and opinions. I REALLY want that pinstripe Explorer, speaking as a child of the ‘70’s that thing should hang out with me for a few years. 🙏
Dunno if anyone has mentioned but u can middle click (press the scroll wheel) to open new tabs. A little tip for you.
I ran into an old elementary school friend about 20 years ago. He was and is a hell of a nice guy, following rant will explain. We are hanging out, havent seen each other in years, having a beer or 2 and catching up. When I tell him I play guitar he says, " check this out. Give it a spin". His father had died and left him a Gibson es semi hollow, with a vintage fender amp. As I lit up playing it, and kept telling him how awesome his gear is he says " geeze man, I would really like to give this to you, but my dad left it to me..." What!? Stop! Do not give this to anyone, you have an absolute special find with the guitar and amp. Some people have no idea the nature of their items . That old Gibson was not only expensive and collectible, but had huge sentimental value. And the guy still wanted to give it to me. I hope he still has it.
How did you miss the Batman sticker? definitely a butterfly lol
He lives very close to me, also I love watching your videos in the background, I don't know what it is but it's nice.
Thank God for this channel. After the corona virus, there are videos of people in Asia, eating anything that slithers, crawls, swims, walks, runs, flies and anything else that I missed. Ahhh... guitars, carry on.
You are from Toledo?? Cool. I graduated from Bowsher in 83 but live in ft Lauderdale now. Love your channel
Hey Trogly, thank you very much for the Reverb pro tip! I was able to get myself a Bareknuckle Juggernaut set for $180USD while a single piece is listed around that price. Cheers mate
Hey Trogster! Cool video..nice to get a glimpse into your TrogleDen...cool set up
I just had a good week on Reverb... Thursday night I picked up a beautiful 2011 Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded with active EMG 81/85 for less than $600 + shipping. And tonight snagged a vintage Marshall Valvestate VS100RH head for $200 shipped offer, and it only needs an input jack replaced (supposedly...We'll see once it gets here).
I know, I know... Folks hate on the Valvestates because they're hybrid amps, but for an iconic 90's heavy metal/hard rock sound, the Marshall 8100/VS100RH heads are right up there with the Peavey 5150 tube heads. Wayne Static (Static-X) almost exclusively used the Marshall 8100/VS100 heads. So did TONS of other famous bands of the 90's. Plus, for nostalgia, my first "real" amp was a new in '95 Valvestate VS100R 1x12 combo. Still have it. Still sounds amazing. And I bet this new VS100RH will sound amazing through my Blackstar S1 412 Pro cab w/ custom-voiced Celestion V30's. 👍🏻
@@12south31 Yeah, I got my first Valvestate VS100R 1x12 combo back in '97 or so, when I was a kid. Still got that amp, and it's in mint condition. So, I have a bit of a sentimental connection to the Valvestate amps. Plus, most haters are people who have never used one, or have no idea how to dial one in. Once you get it dialed in, it's probably the nicest sounding solid-state amp you've ever heard, thanks to that single 12ax7 preamp tube. Swapping out the original Marshall tube for a high-quality Tung-Sol, Genelax, or Mullard makes a difference, too. 🤘🏻
@@12south31 If you check out my channel, I've got a video playing through my Valvestate amp's Warm Clean channel with my LP 1960 Tribute Plus. Excuse the shitty playing, I'm just demoing equipment and sounds in this one, testing it out after swapping the tube and doing some cleanup and stuff. 👍🏻
th-cam.com/video/KwsL3nDZn6Y/w-d-xo.html
I had my eye on those gothics for a while. Seemed a year ago the SGs were a dime-a-dozen on reverb but they suddenly became much more rare
I love the pattern on that designer Explorer, but I think that's mostly because I started playing in '85 and it looks like something I would have seen in a local music store back than so it's feels very nostalgic to me.
Dude I love your show so much. Just started following you on Reverb!
That 1953 Les Paul Custom had the 22nd fret ripped right out of the fretboard in your video. The ebony looked badly chipped from that too, repairable but the price would come down for that.
Baritone guitars are super cool...but..strings are super hard!! Harder than my acoustic!
Love your channel! Keep up the great work!!
Hey from Toledo! Thanks for this. I had to do a double take watching this at 5AM when you mentioned Toledo haha.
Zak Wylde -"is it a butterfly" WHAT THE?!!
It's a Batman logo Trog, look at it sideways.
Jack - Canada
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My cousins have a band and their lead guitarist had one of the Rock Les Paul's, and you were right, it looks just like a kitchen counter top. His was the white/light grey/dark grey swirl, like it's supposed to be quartz granite or something. I had never heard of them and at first I thought it was some Chibson import fake. Nope. He turned it for about $3k and I was stunned. He ended up buying a Helix with it and some cash left over. The build quality was very poor and he was the first/original owner, so nothing had been done to it.
*mistakes the goddamn batman logo for a butterfly* 😂😂
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Trogly you should get your hands on an 80s Fender American Vintage. Those things are absolute beasts, AND often go for $2500 plus
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Love watching your shows, always something to learn, you really are a very shrewd man.
I have a lake placid blue les paul gothic. It had a break at the neckjoint and is repaired. The frets have been leveled crowned and polished. It's a great guitar. It's actually the one I played tonight. I can let you have this one for 600 shipped if you want it. Locking tuners, roller bridge, and duncans.
its awesome,just has a neck break etc etc etc.want to buy it? FUCK NO
I've watched a few of your uploads & after watching this I've decided to subscribe because I think your are pretty cool & you shoot pretty straight.
I had the pickguard on a '97 Limited Edition Les Paul Jr TVDC do the off-gassing thing about three years after I bought it.
A what? They were a Japanese market special run with historic specs and a faux tortoiseshell pickguard. The guard on mine went weird and oily in a "I don't remember it looking like that a few months ago" way. I changed the strings on it and put it on a stand, then went on vacation for a week. When I got back the off-gassing had corroded the strings so much that the E & B had snapped.
Suffice it to say that the guitar has had a back guard made by a local repair guy on it for the last fifteen years.
My other off-gassing horror story concerns a mid 90's CIJ Jazzmaster in Fotoflame. I case queened it for about a year and "something" off-gassed, resulting in the pickup covers and whammy bar tip getting very yellowed, and all the finish on the guitar had started to crack up and peel off. The thing has looked like it has a nasty skin disease ever since, and like my other 90's Fotoflame Fender is in serious need of a re-finish.
The ABR-1 on the '50s Black Beauty is a no-wire one ... easily worth over $1,000 by itself in even in okay condition (not bent!) BUT the saddles were very likely replaced (you can tell because of the beveled screws, on '50s ones the screws didn't have bevels but by the early '60s they added them to prevent strings from contacting them. Plus the saddles were sharp as knives, I once found one that was new old stock and the saddles weren't any sharper than that so for a guitar with as much playwear as this, that seems "off". That's what's tricky about these really old guitars, I only know this tiny detail because I researched it heavily (because I owned one) and every part on a guitar of this vintage guitar also can be dated by minute detail that most people won't know about. And it does effect value if parts are not right, even parts of parts, so be careful.
That’s actually interesting! I’ll keep an eye out
16:07 "is it like a butterfly?" DUDE, WHAT?!
These videos are interesting to me cause I have never been a Gibson fan and never understood peoples obsession for Gibson. After watching many of Trogly's videos I still don't get it. The Norlin era, they seem to try anything they could to build the guitars cheap and in the last 30 years the only thing to justify the high prices is the name Gibson. They also have the worst aging finishes of any guitar company. Don't get me wrong. they do make good guitars but no better than any other top tier guitar brands and in my opinion not as good as some. I guess it just comes down to tradition why people love the old brands like Gibson and Fender.
You’re 100% right.
Agree
You are 100% correct sir. It pains me that they do some awesome paint jobs like the swirl les paul in this video, or any really nice burst with a flame top and cover it all with a crappy nitro finnish. It should not be used in anything ever if you want it to stay pristine. I get it if someone wants their guitar to relic faster then sure yeah. You don't see the finnish crapping out on even the cheapest guitars like they do on Gibsons.
josh hill dunno fender makes greak guitar for the price.
interesting that you would watch them? i dont peruse Yoko Ono forums because she sounds like a seagull
who ate a porcupine then was shot with a rocket launcher so i wouldnt be interested,see my point?
play a gibson,even norlin era and you might find you are not right but read too many opinions and
think opinion=fact which it absolutely doesn't.any comment that starts with "im not a fan of"= douchebag or idiot imo
Stand rash is bad but keeping a guitar in the case is a good reason not to play it. I keep mine hanging on the wall with a guitar wall hangers. What's your opinion about long term stress on the head and neck?
How would you recommend shopping for random and obscure guitars that arent fenders or gibsons?
I like to collect a lot of strange off branded stuff from the 60s and 70s and early 80s
As do I! I've found some really cool and obscure, sometimes even handmade guitars at flea markets/antique shops/and very rarely at guitar center
Whoa bra! I LOVE your studio monitors!! They are like guitars! What are those?!!?
Dude I love your Channel
I know you know everything Gibson, and this video is old, BUT in case you didn’t know, Gibson sales were so so poor in 2015 that by the end of the year they released some Special Runs with no weight relief, no robot tuners, traditional neck, etc… they only kept the logo in the back and the brass nut. Bought a Studio Les Paul like that, still have it
I owned a dot neck Les Paul back in the 80s when I could hardly play. It was a beautiful red kind of a sparkly finish. There was no designated name on it and it came in a Chain saw case. I traded it for something else. It was I think earlier then 85.
This show makes me wanna cash my retirement and buy and sell guitars for a living.
Lol good luck man
Good plan! 🤨
horrible, horrible, idea. As romantic as it sounds, we all know what would happen.
@@218maryland really is a horrible idea. Too many fat lazy people these days. One of my local music stores just had to close down and they sold a brand new Mexican strat for $320. Yes... A brand new Mexican strat for 320. A telecaster as well. Tough market lol as many people are also cheapskates
I've been doing it for 20 years. Very little money for the work put in. Now I just pick and choose certain Charvels or Fenders I get for a good price and then flip them. Don't expect to make a living at it.
I have a 2000 Les Paul Gothic, and mine did a very similar thing with the finish between the neck and fretboard near the nut.
LP Baritone is high. sold are 1300-1600 ish. a pewter one, also intn'l, for higher in "good" condition. the Agile w/ Fishmans is peaking my curiosity. this epi was a blast- who cares if you don't know Batman- you know a shrinking pick guard. Ü ♫
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Austin: Thanks for discussing the ES Artist pickguard. I have a 1980 model and love the thing but that guard had to go; all was good until about two years ago when I found the pups turning green. I took the guard off, removed it's metal parts and stored them separately in baggies and fortunately the guitar finish polished up ok. Do you have any idea why this specific pickguard is so bad? It's such a fancy thing compared to the ones on my other Gibsons; beautiful to look at and with binding too, but useless.
One more watch-out for these guitars is that the black foam rubber, used to protect the circuit board from the 9V battery, disintegrates at around 35 years +/-. Mine was just fine one year and then when I changed the battery the following year, the cavity was full of black powder. I just carefully vacuumed it out and there is now a piece of soft cloth doing the job. The guitar is exceptionally well made and plays really well. The Moog electronics are a little odd and really superfluous but do produce some really interesting tones.
off gassing
Just got a first year Fender J5 this way just a few weeks back🤙🏻
One of best episodes yet
Just a little side note regarding the LP Gothic with a chip in the finish, as Austin said it can indeed be fixed, a mate of mine has a Fender that its neck finish cracked all along the skunk stripe from the truss rod being over tightened. Structural issues aside, it was VERY uncomfortable to play. He took it to my luthier of trust and it was all glued up and sanded smooth, even without having to refill the crack with finish, it became imperceptible - the key here is leaving something as delicate as the finish to someone who knows their craft.
Butterfly? I literately busted out laughing and cringing at the same time, hit pause and read the comments. Cool ass guitar though \m/
you got me hooked on Gibson and I don't know how to play either. I have 4 so far ranging from the Spirit and Futura to the new honey p90 and a 2006 LP
Please review a Yamaha SG! I know you are a Gibson guy but it seems like they would be right up your alley. Prices are going up as well
yes please, everybody sticks their neck out for vintage Gibsons and Fenders, but I rarely hear people talk about the 70s and 80s Yamaha designs. Their new SGs are the best double cut guitars you can buy today, in my opinion.
Trogly...Electra in sunburst. Harrisburg, PA Guitar Center.
Did anyone else see that Gibson with the headstock crack had the last fret missing ? Austin you bypassed it
It wasn't visible until I had zoom in during editing haha or else I would've!
That last fret looks to be missing on the 12k les paul
I really like that designer explorer
I tried hunting for classic Gibsons in my country. Gave up when the best deal I could find was a headstock repaired Firebrand Les Paul with replaced pickups and a worn off finish at $1800
Hey Trogly, what is your opinion of Wolf Guitars are they worth it and would an upgrade in pickups be ideal?
One of the reasons I don't particularly like Gibsons and Les Paup in particular if the somewhat fragility of the finish ans the neck in particular. I like the Pickup and electronics control scheme.
That L.P. Studio is sweet!
The Bat Signal!!!
I know that every other comment is going to be about the batman logo, so...good video, love your content.
So many people on here believes he was serious calling it a butterfly, lol!
Do folks not realize he was kidding/being sarcastic?
Haha
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Haha - I kept seeing it as the inverse image where the orange was the subject of the piece and the dark portion didn't matter. I didn't even catch it while editing either!
I think he was serious
I love this channel...but I never knew Dwight Schrute had a guitar TH-cam channel! Great information...I have contemplated buying some collector guitars but the potential for rip-off scares me.
I might actually know who owns that flames top natural Les Paul Studio. Pretty sure it belonged to another MyLesPaul forum member. That place became a cesspool.
The original Les Paul Custom with the staple pickup is my number one dream guitar.
Cornelius Crewe I used to go on there a lot too big everyone hates it now, what happened?
Lot of infighting, self righteous mods with God complexes and an owner who refused to get their attitudes under control until one of them burned him, silly crap like that. I had been there from almost the very beginning, I was member number 14.
i wish reverb would recommend more strongly to sellers to post picture of the serial number. You can screw up your description, get date and specs wrong, but if you post the serial the potential buyers will know exactly what you're selling, even if you don't.
Trogly, what are your thoughts on the 1984 Gibson J-25 with the resin/plastic back?
Haha batman logo "is that a butterfly" 😂
My dads got a 53 custom like the one in the video, the only thing replaced is the pots because they wore out but he still has the original ones, it's a rad guitar.
you have plenty of pics and vids on your channel of it too ,right?
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 nah I just watch youtube, dont make videos.
For a Les Paul/Gibson fan, can you recommend a forum apart from my les paul. Maybe with active members?
It seems facebook groups is the way to go now
The Trogly's Guitar Show hm I shut down my facebook account several years ago...
spend time playing,looking at a guitar is fine if the time is measured in minutes per year
You are just convincing yourself that you are finding a bargain. They are still showing up in the new listings section, just not in individual feeds. The prices are not reduced, they are the sellers full asking prices. And finally, if anyone has made a mistake, they can easily cancel the sale.
Is it a butterfly?
Can you do a videos on the levels of finish checking?
Dude you have a great show. I just had to subscribe ….
I see you looking for that Fender Silent Siren guitar which looks amazing :O
What the hell are those shrinking pick guards gassing off? Hydrogen gas? I have only seen that type of corrosion once and it was to a car battery charger that sat too close to charging batteries, the venting hydrogen gas from the battery causes that type of corrosion.
That guitars corrosion on the metal parts are consistent with hydrogen gases being vented from the pick guard. And now you know why you never charge a car battery in your house, especially if you smoke in your house.
Would you be able to review a Washburn A series .👍
Great episode today 😀
ABR-1 bridge introduced in 1954. How did one get on a 1953 Custom? Stewie's time machine?
So what you're saying is guitars on Reverb re commonly over valued, and the sellers are asking too much?
Great show man! Are those Gibson monitors??? If so, they look amazing, bet they sound great as well, cheers!
nope,they look good and sound average to sub par.made when gibson was a "lifestyle company" how well did that idea go? ps"see bankrupcy"
On that explorer the Knobs are available on Amazon cheap
A lot of stuff comes up rather pricey to ship if you live on the coast. I always have to assume my buyer is going to make me ship clear across the country to CA. If you live in Ohio or something than yeah $60 will cover it but if you live on the East Coast it can get stupid expensive to ship to the West Coast.
Thanks for all the education great stuff to know.
I have the 2000 Goth LP and Explorer, awesome axes, HOT PU's, love ebony fretboards, my fav. I think they have 58 specs. I've gigged and played mine alot. If yhou want to do a review on it maybe we can get together.
Also Alnico 4's I believe...
Any information on a 60’s 12 string es 335 in sunburst?
Hey any tips on buying a good strat (pref seafoam green or sonic blue) for 500 - 800? Like which you would recommend most? I am currently looking at a 1997 strat (mim) deluxe plus in good condition. and theres plenty of the 2015-2017 50s ones... anyways just wanted your quick advice! thanks !
You're a nice guy! I don't know you personally but you seem like a cool dude!
Being in Australia, the local mark up is a rip off. Reverb is the way to go for us because even with shipping, it's still cheaper than getting it locally.
The black binding actually makes the Rock series a little more attractive in person.
Wow, that’s what Trogly looks like.
🤓 🤘🏻 🎸
That Designer Series Explorer is pretty interesting. Not bad at all.
Hey Austin can you review an amp soon?
will you review kramer guitars? collectors are all about the 84 models.
triledink, I’m a big fan of the 80’s Kramer and noticed a huge increase in price. 😁
I suppose there are hardcore collectors out there that buy and trade or sell old Gibsons - the problem is that for actually playing many of these Gibsons - it would take some TLC to restore most and likely would not sound that much different from the new 2020 Epiphones at $500 - $700 that have been made with the latest equipment and techniques overseas. I have seen fairly high-quality no-name brands of Les Pauls that go for under $200. And just like Squire to Fender Strats - a lot of folks love the sound of the cheaper versions. None of the guitars I own - I bought - were over $150 - so all of these Gibson's simply give me sticker shock.
The biggest difference I have found between low and high cost involves the material that the nut and saddle on the instruments are made of - which I replace myself with bone. I have friends with enormously expensive guitars that tell me that they like the sound of my guitars better than their main favorite. 10 to 20 years of aging also seems to bring out top of the line tones - with no scratches, dents, dings, chips or cracks happening like in those pictures of Gibsons.
So - why do these high-end instruments have all these little issues? I own Epiphone, Squire, Ibanez, Rhapsody( over 40 years old ), and a new Orangewood acoustic( got it sounding like a Martin.) I also bought a low-cost Rogue 4 string bass - that I tweaked until it sounded like Lemmy from Motorhead. 3 guitars cost $99, 1 guitar cost $40, 1 guitar cost $111, and 1 cost $150. Total cost: $598 for 6 instruments. Beat that all you cheapskates out there! All were bought new except for the Rhapsody, which now has a little fretboard wear. I can live with that.
And in the end for me - it's more about learning and playing guitar than collecting. I also - for some strange reason - never bothered to notice what guitar my favorite musicians played - which I think is why the Gibson brand holds little mystic or cache'.
Value is in the eye of the beholder, though. If you got the cash and you love the instrument - go for it.
try a high quality guitar sometime and get yourself a better job......$150 guitars are great,when you compare them to other $150 guitars
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 I bought a hundred dollar guitar that is now worth $350 on the open market today - and poverty isn't a crime - it's a condition of opportunity and health. I am retired and on a fixed income and my health isn't great. If you want to send me a very expensive guitar as a present - I would not turn it down, only to say that it is the person playing the guitar that matters more than the guitar. Thank you for your advice, though. I sound like me on ANY guitar I play - but if you are happy playing expensive guitars and can afford it be my guest. That was the whole purpose of what I was saying anyway. You don't need an expensive guitar to sound like a million bucks.
That's the beauty of living in the UK, courier charges are not that expensive. For a good well protected cased guitar in an outter cardboard box wouldn't cost much more than £30 nationwide. Might be the land of oportunity but it's also the land of extortionate couriers.
What do you suggest to use to clean the fretboard? I find most of my gear off of facebook and craigslist and usually just wipe the frets down with a dry rag.
Why didn't you buy that Walnut The Paul ? Was it not within your profit range ?
man I hate it when people aren't competent enough to match their photos and descriptions