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Gibson over the past 60 decades has made about 10,000 variations of the Les Paul. These days they have about 80 to choose from. A far cry from the 800 they had to choose from during Henry's reign. Original series, Modern series. Exclusives, Custom shop, Murphy Labs ( different aging) and Artist series stuff. In a nut shell. Any Les Paul you will select the the color you like. Remember paint hides a world of sin, so I tend to like the sunburst variations they make. Do you like a fatter neck or a thinner 1960 neck? Many are still have weight relief, which is fine, but not right imho. If you can't take the weight of a 9-10 pound, get a proper strap if need be. No sense in paying for air. Figure out what pups you like, personally I'm a classic Humbucker man, like 57 classics or Burstbuckers, but nothing too hot. Got to let your amp do some grunt work and part of the tone lifting. P90's a nice, but I'll take humbuckers over and above. Get some with bubble bee or orange drop caps in it. If you like the Les Paul and want some with a super sweet looking top, Paul Reed Smith will set you up nicely. Their fat wide neck is kind a like a 60's thinner Les Paul. PRS throws away better looking wood, that Gibson has to offer. Not exactly the same tone and feel as a Les Paul, but with that being said I own a old Les Paul and a PRS custom 22. Even know the PRS CU 22 does more, I actually prefer the Les Paul. Remember Paul tapped Ted McCarty's brain Happy shopping. I would personally do the Les Paul 1960, the one that Gibson couldn't give away back in the day, before calling the Les Paul dead. I played 68 custom with the smaller frets and it was really nice.

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Exactly Bah Humbug. Not enough Les Paul's

Stocking stuffers for musicians are like clip on tuners, picks, a capo, a slide and strings. Maybe a harmonica or a cool guitar/ bass strap, neck tie, gloves, or cool musicians novelty sock. Ear plugs for the family. I saw some face masks hat were rather cool. We'll be wearing those things for a long me to come.

Hope he has some rich parents and friends to move the amp. Happy holidays and merry Christmas to my low end friends.

Dobro made a buck of wooden body guitar. Your guitar is from 1985, OMI's 1172 unit made that year. Pics, there's F hole ones and round hole ones and one with a single round hole. Some have round necks and some have square necks. I have a Dobro model 33H with the bigger cone (10-1/2" cone), but they also made that with the smaller (9-1/2") I also have a Dobro round neck F60, that was purchased pretty cheaply after the Gibson /OMI buy out. Nobody in TN really wants a round neck Dobro. So I bought.

Electric Blue looks like the new Electric Purple.

The Twin Reverb from that era has 2 volume controls and a master volume that works of the second channel only. Normal channel: volume, treble, mid, bass The Vibrato channel: volume, treble, mid, bass, reverb, speed intensity. The push pull master volume controls the second channel only Both Channels have 2 inputs and a bright switch. In like "77" they boosted the amp to 135 watts and killed that series in "82". There's no way to lower the wattage, but you can pull 2 power adjacent tubes and will bring the volume down a touch. Pull into the vibrato channel and go. Adjust the master volume and use the push pull master volume to add distortion. I have one from 82, when they went back to the blackface. Been up in my attic for 20 years, since it too much amp for anything I need. Those Twins with rattle your teeth.

Try some light gauge coated accoustic strings. Maybe something like Elixers.

Style 11 (which I believe refers to the actual plate cover) 517 made that year Year 1993 D= wood body

My Gibson F5G Mandolin came from the Gibson show room. David Harvey there chief mandolin player picked it of for me, after I had issues with the top on my original purchased one. I can't thank Dave enough. Love the Burgundy Mist color on the SG. not much the tail piece.

The good news is there's plenty of great clones out there. The bad news is it will cost you just as much if not more than a new Fender Tweed Deluxe 5E3. Your cheapest way out is a build from many Mojotone or something. If you don't have any experience with electronics, there's a some out there to help you. You can pay a HS kid at a Technical School can do it and bench test it. Otherwise you are looking at a use Clone al ready built, and they are out there. It's a killer amp for sure, and for a reason.

Good to know. I might look into one down the road.

That is quite a few black guitars

I had a Danelectro RI, back in the 90's. I could get into it.

Technically speaking, a candy apple red one would be nice and you are missing that. Maybe a tele w/ a P90. Technically speaking that is.

I haven't bought a new Tele in almost 40 years. I still have the same 2 i purchased back then. I'm do for another Les Paul. Down the road.

1988 . The D metal body round neck.

I love teles

I had the Vov AC15 custom classic. I personally thought it was a ok, but nothing special amp. The Blues Junior is ok in my book. Better price, nicer carry to gigs. Sold the Vox, I still have the BJ tweed. I am a fan of tremolo on an amp. Vox makes there stuff in China and Vietnam, the BJ is made and Mexico. There's some nice mods you can do to the BJ, as it's probably on of Fenders most popular amps. Let us know what you did, or didn't do. There are plenty of Vox like amps out there. This was a killer amp, but not a defunct company. https://reverb.com/item/5672217-valvetech-hayseed-15 I have a Dr Z Maz 18 with reverb, and the eq bypass mod, and think is sounds more like a Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb than a Vox. It's a very nice sounding amp. Good luck shopping.

And just for sh!ts and giggles, Seymour Duncan still makes Seth Lovers. A couple of these and some bumble be caps, and you can get there pretty. I guess they are slightly less dark that Gibson 57 classics. I only have stuff with 57 classics and that's a very nice pup imho.

PRS has done many necks over the the decades. I have a Custom 22 and choose the fat wide neck, which isn't that fat compared to LP of the 50. The fat wide feels more like a 60's LP neck. Make sure you try before you buy, or can send the guitar back if you don't like the feel of it.

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