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    1957 Les Paul PAF Goldtop - Before the bursts, Duane and Dickey's first choice!

    All mahogany, mine has a maple top and no stickers on the pick ups. Is this one for sale?
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    2024 Gibson Murphy Lab Brazilian “59 Les Paul

    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...
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    Mark Knopfler Christies auction

    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...
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    Lollar '50s Wind P-90 vs Throbak '52/'54 SB MXV P-90

    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...
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    Mark Knopfler Christies auction

    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.
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    Mark Knopfler Christies auction

    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...
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    Mark Knopfler Christies auction

    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...
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    1960 Les Paul Standard sells fast

    Neck was deep and round for an early SG. Not a pancake, which I do not favor, at all.
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    Uncle Larry's "new" 1957 GT

    Anybody know about its provenance? Looks like early brushed SS pre sticker PAFs, original frets and light back. Pretty clean.
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    1960 Les Paul Standard sells fast

    The best of these LP/SGs was the 1962-3 PAF Ebony Block version. Neck joints were improved from earlier versions. My old 1962 below:
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    Current bursts for sale...

    $400K with a neck crack...no gracias.
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    Current bursts for sale...

    Did Uncle Lou's scarily good looking instruments sell?
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    Mark Knopfler Christies auction

    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...
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    What Voltage Do You Run Your Amps At?

    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...
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    Tube preferences for JTM45?

    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...
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