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http://www.led-zeppelin.org/reference/gear/index.php?m=jimmy-1980-present


From here I expect, but its the only reference google has apart from this thread and the TGP one.

Even page's site never mentions it.

 

 

Although equiring minds have been this way before

 

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bad-dog-cafe/131223-jimmy-page-playing-pointy-guitar.html

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Here is a page with some more pics. You can kind of see the pickups in some of the shots. The bridge seems to have a wide blade like single coil (looks like an SD hot stack), and the neck and middle kind of look like lipsticks, maybe in pairs...or perhaps strat sized single coils, the lighting in the pics makes it hard to see for sure. Looking at the specs the linked page gives makes me think the guy who wrote it isn't a guitar player, as it looks to be mostly wrong. Here is a better pic where you can see the pickups at least.

 

http://www.led-zeppelin.org/joomla/studio-and-live-gear/1190

 

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Looks like 22 fret, rosewood board, front routed strat type body. Headstock has a back angle, so no string trees. No locking nut, and what looks like a vintage style trem. Strat jack and knobs and strat blade switch. Two (?) microswitches near the blade selector to control hair spray dispensers (?). Bridge looks like a SD hot stack, or the 80's equivalent. Middle and front look like either lipsticks or double blade mini humbuckers (like hot rails, for example).

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Here is a page with some more pics. You can kind of see the pickups in some of the shots. The bridge seems to have a wide blade like single coil (looks like an SD hot stack), and the neck and middle kind of look like lipsticks, maybe in pairs...or perhaps strat sized single coils, the lighting in the pics makes it hard to see for sure. Looking at the specs the linked page gives makes me think the guy who wrote it isn't a guitar player, as it looks to be mostly wrong. Here is a better pic where you can see the pickups at least.


http://www.led-zeppelin.org/joomla/studio-and-live-gear/1190


o_215_Led_Zeppelin_Jimmy_Page_RARE_STUDI

Looks like 22 fret, rosewood board, front routed strat type body. Headstock has a back angle, so no string trees. No locking nut, and what looks like a vintage style trem. Strat jack and knobs and strat blade switch. Two (?) microswitches near the blade selector to control hair spray dispensers (?). Bridge looks like a SD hot stack, or the 80's equivalent. Middle and front look like either lipsticks or double blade mini humbuckers (like hot rails, for example).

 

Defenetly not a Kramer, based on this photo......................

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Defenetly not a Kramer, based on this photo......................

 

 

 

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy+page/biography.html

 

 

in here it says ".Mid 80s Black Kramer guitar with a trem Used for Outrider"

 

 

......and in here

 

http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=TSDWzA2LDwU

 

......somewhere down the page (hho) is a comment about this being a one-off Kramer custom 1988.

 

I'm done now.

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I know a lot of sites claim it is a Kramer, and I can find several that claim it is a jackson, like the site I linked above with better pics. It certainly wouldn't be the first time people guessed what a guitar was incorrectly. I can't say for sure if it is or isn't any of these brands, or a custom one off model, but I think it is best to cautious in believing what is out there on the web. The headstock shape alone makes me think it isn't a kramer, but only Page and the people that built it know for sure.

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i would definitely guess a Kramer or a Charvel. and that looks like s Duncan hot stack at the bridge, and those look like rails at mid & neck (probably duncan vintage or cool rails to balance the hot stack output)

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just lost some respect for page.

 

 

No reason to ... except snobbery. He's still the same guy who rocked our worlds with both bombast and finesse, and who is one of the two or three most influential guitarists in popular music.

 

And if I recall correctly, Outrider had some pretty damned good cuts, and Page had killer, killer tone on it.

 

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I do recall correctly.

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just lost some respect for page.

 

 

Why, because he dressed according to the decade's fashion (although he chose black rather than neon)? Or because he's not playing a Les Paul? Geez. The only thing he's done professionally that deserves any scoffing is playing on the P.Diddy or Puff Daddy or whatever his name is version of Kashmir. And you could even argue against that.

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