Members Goofball Jones Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 So I won a Gibson Les Paul in a contest. Looks old...has a serial number of 9-2074. I'm trying to see how much I could get for it, but I cannot find any prices (US Dollars) ANYWHERE. Does anyone know how much this will sell for?? Here's a picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Optimus Prime Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 I'd say it was made in September 2074, but I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 8, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 I'd say it was made in September 2074, but I could be wrong. COOL! So it's from the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super Bass Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Nahh its from September 1920. It must be worth 1 Billion dollars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike fitzwell Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 COOL! So it's from the future! no, THIS Gibson is from the future: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Is that supposed to be Jimmy's page's again? Or another famous stolen guitar I'm not aware of.... (Jimmy Page's was serial number 91703 according to google) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 8, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Is that supposed to be Jimmy's page's again? Or another famous stolen guitar I'm not aware of....(Jimmy Page's was serial number 91703 according to google) No, actually just got that number and picture off the Vintage Les Paul Guitar Registry. Like the look of it. It's a '59 and probably could go for $250-500K easily. http://www.lespaulforum.com/registry/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Looks old...has a serial number of 9-2074. Thats a Custom Shop SN........ '59 reissue 1992 I believe but I could be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 No, actually just got that number and picture off the Vintage Les Paul Guitar Registry. Like the look of it. It's a '59 and probably could go for $250-500K easily.http://www.lespaulforum.com/registry/index.php ah....gotcha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Very Interesting -- it (coincidentally) matches the Custom Shop S/N pattern for a 1992 '59 ReIssue (as I stated above) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JRoll Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 That's 'The African' Burst. http://www.lespaulforum.com/finalframes/frameset.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members basste Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 She is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Optimus Prime Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 There was a show on the Discovery Channel last night about that had a tour of the Gibson factory. Installing frets looks easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 Ah, back when Gibson products could actually be relied on to be of consistant quality, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ZenMoto Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 True story...2 years ago a buddy that is not a regular ebay seller asked me to help him sell his Les Paul ... Neither one of us new much about Les Pauls but we were able to determine that it was a 1970 model sunburst and that was about it...He had paid about $1000 bucks for it...A local dealer had offered him $1500 when he was thinking of selling but the guy was a jerk so he didn't do it...He wasn't sure what to do...We listed it on ebay starting the bidding at $1.00 with no reserve...It sold for $5500.00 ....Turns out it was a rare transitional model '59 reissue with no volute and and special pick-ups and a special one piece bridge...Vintage instruments are a whole other world...The thing was nice but it wasn't that nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 9, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 Yeah, they tend to go overboard a lot. There's a guy on the Les Paul Forum (kind of an arrogant ass...just read some posts over there and you'll see who I mean) that has easily spent over a million bucks on his vintage collection. And he doesn't even play them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 Meh. It's OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hamer-Bass-Head Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 There was a show on the Discovery Channel last night about that had a tour of the Gibson factory. Installing frets looks easy. I like the part about fretting the fingerboard and THEN glueing the fingerboard to the neck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Real MC Posted January 9, 2008 Members Share Posted January 9, 2008 I like the part about fretting the fingerboard and THEN glueing the fingerboard to the neck... That was standard practice in the 1950s, I have a book that chronicles the Gibson factory with pictures of assemblers with fretted fingerboards before they glued them to the neck. There is a vintage guitar shop not far from me that always has at least one original 1958/59/60 sunburst LP in stock. I got to try one with the warning that it was worth $400,000. The vintage guitar market is crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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