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I am a friend of the OP. He is an electric guitar connoisseur, having introduced me to Bartlett and Gustavsson and Probett, which are all top class small builders of LP style instruments.
He went out of his way to give me a heads up on this series of LPs, the Brazilian board ones like his...
Ugly boat anchors IMO.
YMMV.
Owned, past tense, several Norlin era instruments, including my first "real" guitar, a 1972 LP Deluxe, which is the only one I still own for sentimental reasons. Once I played pre-Norlin instruments, they all got sold as fast as I could move them. Hear that newly...
No experience with Lollar nor Throbak P90s, only vintage Gibson. Had Lollars HBs in two Collings and glad I switch them out for Throbaks.
Guys I know have tried Ron Ellis P90s and love them, again I have only HB experience with Ellis, but I like them enough to share a heads up on his P90s as...
Am I alone in thinking that that powder blue/turquoise LP is butt ugly?
Love LPs, have owned 10 of them including a few vintage ones, but that one is worse looking than those awful silverbursts, an image of Norlin's worst work.
MK auction reminds me of Rudy Pensa's comment after attending the first EC auction. EC had offered at that auction a Pensa-Suhr that MK had commissioned built for EC. Remember MK joined as second guitar on one of EC's tours. Rudy thought he might reacquire it for the shop, both an MK and EC...
Wonder what knucklehead paid $750K for a 1983 LP? Wouldn't pay $2K for one.
Yes, it was the Money for Nothing cocked wah one...but MK himself goes on about what a revelation he had once he played a vintage LP versus the reissues of his past. Was also shocked with values on stuff like...
Very sad to hear of Jack's passing.
He was three years ahead of me in the same high school, we both played in bands and had Les Paul Deluxes; his had P90s/stop bar and mine mini HBs/ABR (we compared them), which I later switched to 1956 P90s that came out of a PAFed GT. Saw him around town as...
1959 Deluxe, 1964 AC-30 and 1966 JTM45 all see 110V using a Brown Box.
Have not used the Brown Box on newer amps, probably should use it with 1966 BFSR and 1963 Reverb Tank at 117V.
Have measured 125-27V at some of the dive bars we play at...after an hour of play prior to the Brown Box, the...
My 1966 JTM45 sounds best with vintage Bugle Boy in V1, Mullard V2 and an old Philips in V3, closely matched pair of Genelex KT66s and a Mullard rectifier. Bought them all 20+ years ago; now guessing it would cost $1K or more to assemble a reliable/pristine NOS set of these, if you could find...