Just found out my Les Paul is rare AF

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by SnikPlosskin

Holy shit. Now I have to find out.


I think I will get it appraised. It plays beautifully. Always has. Paired with a vintage amp, it sounds incredible. If I turn up my Deluxe to 10, it sounds like angus young. Don’t even need a distortion pedal. My single coils can’t achieve that sound. I think part of the reason is the Tim Shaws.

It's the amp. I have a '52 Deluxe (5C3) and I can get Angus Young or Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps tones using no pedals and a Tele.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

It's the amp. I have a '52 Deluxe (5C3) and I can get Angus Young or Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps tones using no pedals and a Tele.

Hmmm. My tele has active Greg Koch Gristle Tone Fluence pickups by Fishman. I’ll have to hit the clean boost and see what happens. My Strats all have passive vintage pickups. They are glassy and clean.

[Strats-N-Vettes]

I have a dual showman once owned by dick dale, he told me to count the ribs on the transformer to tell it was one of his.

TFL 5000D
Original JBL 2x15 cab = beast.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by Strats-N-Vettes

I have a dual showman once owned by dick dale, he told me to count the ribs on the transformer to tell it was one of his.

TFL 5000D
Original JBL 2x15 cab = beast.

Those are absolute beasts. Especially with the JBLs. How much does it weigh?

[Strats-N-Vettes]

Originally Posted by SnikPlosskin

Those are absolute beasts. Especially with the JBLs. How much does it weigh?

I am not sure; but I drug it out to a couple festivals and blasted the ear drums a couple of parishes away.

The dove joints in the originals cab (1969) were loose so I parked it.
Bought a 4x10 cab with wheels, used that cab and the head.

[Taurus]

I often wonder if I let a valuable Strat get away from me. I had one for sale here in SLC, a 2008 in honey pine made in America. It was on Craigslist for a few days when it was sold to a guy in NY who wired me the money and had an associate pick it up and ship it to him. Here's the exchange from our email:

I've been speaking with a Patrick, is he the person picking it up or is it some one else?

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On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Brett Nemeroff <[email protected]> wrote:

Yep,

You probably are wondering why I just don't buy one here... well, I'm weird that way... Dennis will probably tell you a little about my career, but I can tell you that your guitar will be given a loving home and career... if all goes well it'll be broken in on the new single for a famous artist in May (sorry, can't tell you who it is yet).



If you look up Brett Nemeroff he is a NY music producer as well as doing TV production work. Never got a straight answer as to why my old Strat was so important to him or who used it.

[Tikiman]

Originally Posted by SnikPlosskin

Hmmm. My tele has active Greg Koch Gristle Tone Fluence pickups by Fishman. I’ll have to hit the clean boost and see what happens. My Strats all have passive vintage pickups. They are glassy and clean.

Come to think of it, my Tele has Joe Barden pups.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by Taurus

I often wonder if I let a valuable Strat get away from me. I had one for sale here in SLC, a 2008 in honey pine made in America. It was on Craigslist for a few days when it was sold to a guy in NY who wired me the money and had an associate pick it up and ship it to him. Here's the exchange from our email:

I've been speaking with a Patrick, is he the person picking it up or is it some one else?

Sent from my iPhone

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On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Brett Nemeroff <[email protected]> wrote:

Yep,

You probably are wondering why I just don't buy one here... well, I'm weird that way... Dennis will probably tell you a little about my career, but I can tell you that your guitar will be given a loving home and career... if all goes well it'll be broken in on the new single for a famous artist in May (sorry, can't tell you who it is yet).



If you look up Brett Nemeroff he is a NY music producer as well as doing TV production work. Never got a straight answer as to why my old Strat was so important to him or who used it.

2008 doesn’t seem vintage. I wonder why he wanted that one so badly. Maybe the color? I haven’t seen one that color although I don’t really stay up on that stuff. I assume it’s an American made one. Is is vintage reissue or anything special edition or otherwise unique?

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by SnikPlosskin

2008 doesn’t seem vintage. I wonder why he wanted that one so badly. Maybe the color? I haven’t seen one that color although I don’t really stay up on that stuff. I assume it’s an American made one. Is is vintage reissue or anything special edition or otherwise unique?

Nothing special as far as I could tell, not a reissue but it is an uncommon color. Strange he felt he had to have it, never got a good answer why and never heard from him again.

[Unsuspicious]

When I was young, I wasted too much money on nice guitars that my skills didn't really justify. After awhile I settled on some affordable guitars and have never felt I needed more. Actually the guitar I leave out to muck about on is a crate strat copy that I bought for $5 from some people on Craigslist who I'm sure were crackheads

[slewfoot]

I could see not messing with it if it belonged to someone famous showing the wear and all but if you were the original owner? So what?

What's the harm in a "restore" not rebuild?

[NotSlo]

Originally Posted by Chemtrails99

Don't sell it, you'll never stop regretting it. I wouldn't let that go for under $40,000.00. it's rarity, one owner and details shove the price higher. I've spent a lot of time researching selling a one off custom made Hamer Standard over the last six months. Prices are beyond stupid.

I'm on a Hamer group on Facebook. Standards are going for crazy money, especially Custom Shop geeters.

[NotSlo]

Pete,
I have an Epi version of your Blue LP, put some Duncans in it and it's a player, nowhere near what you have but I love it.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by NotSlo

Pete,
I have an Epi version of your Blue LP, put some Duncans in it and it's a player, nowhere near what you have but I love it.

Can you post a photo? Is it an opaque blue almost like blue metallic you would see on a Chevy?

I’ll get some photos of mine tonight and post.

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by slewfoot

I could see not messing with it if it belonged to someone famous showing the wear and all but if you were the original owner? So what?

What's the harm in a "restore" not rebuild?

For this type of instrument, the finish and color is what is rare so you wouldn’t want to strip and paint it because it would destroy the value. Having a famous owner isn’t the only reason instruments end up valuable to collectors. The most common reason is the number made. In my case, it’s looking like only five were made and, so far, mine is the only one I’ve found with an ebony fretboard. (Standards never came with ebony. All were rosewood).

In fact, on Gibsons, trapezoid fret marker inlays mean rosewood. Ebony gets rectangles. Mine has traps plus ebony. Apparently ebony is now illegal to import.

I have had it re-fretted and one pickup needed repair. It also has new pots and switch which doesn’t harm the value. For some collectors, the wear would be a detriment. For others (usually pro players) the wear is a plus.

The wear doesn’t impact playability now that the frets are new. It was unplayable before the refret because I wore them down so far. It’s mostly paint worn off.

The biggest factor with re-fretting these is damaging the binding. (A plastic strip around the edges that finishes it off). When it gets old it gets brittle so it takes a lot of skill to do it right. If you Jack it up, you can put in new bindings but it’s super expensive and decimates the value. I got really lucky that I found a very good luthier to do the work.

At first, she wouldn’t touch it due to fear of messing it up which I thought was odd. She knew it was rare before I did.

[mrvette]

WHY wood ebony be illegal to import??? it IS just wood, right??

[SnikPlosskin]

Some pics

Front - pick guard was white. Now yellowed.

Buckle rash on back

Lots of songs on edges

[SnikPlosskin]

A few more

I added the Maim - Kill switch plate.

Close up of neck binding

Wear on front (big white ding is from shot glasses thrown at me back in the day.)

[SnikPlosskin]

Originally Posted by mrvette

WHY wood ebony be illegal to import??? it IS just wood, right??

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/gibso...act-violations

[Taurus]

I certainly am not in your league but when I play these days I use this. It's a fairly new Epi pro top with splitters. Very forgiving and easy to play but does not have the tone of a Gibson.