Recent content by Albert

After reading this I checked out my '62 LP Standard with the smooth neck heel, short vibrola and ebony tailpiece. I wouldn't call it a blade neck; it's not fat, but it's nicely rounded like most modern Gibson "slim taper" necks. No dead spots, and it's had both headstock and heel repairs. It...

You probably need to start at 50% of an undamaged one in comparable condition. Those resistance readings are high for that era, so if you're sure the pickups are original, I would suspect they've been rewound unless you measured them at a very high ambient temperature. Original Pat. No. Gibsons...

Gibson has continued to be inconsistent with making these guitars actually conform to their vintage years. The '61s have plain bell top knobs when they should have reflector knobs, and the '59 above has reflector knobs when it should have plain bell knobs. And those reflector knobs are the...

I recently bought a 2016 '61 RI like renderit's above. The original owner was nice enough to replace the pickups with underwound Fralins (with a shim under the bridge pickup) and replaced the ABR-1 with a roller bridge, so the Bigsby stays in tune much better than other Bigsbied guitars I have...

I'm talking about the weight distribution. Most Les Pauls have such heavy bodies, they don't balance easily in a seated position. Putting on heavier tuners like Grovers can help if the guitar is not much heavier than 9 lbs.

Hey Mat, Why have so few Les Pauls been made with tummy cuts? In addition to making them more comfortable, it would cut down on their weight and balance problems.

I have a similar situation with a 2011 R0 that used to clean up fine, and still does with the stock neck Burstbucker, but after replacing the bridge pickup with both a used Throbak and a new Wizz, neither of those pickups will clean up properly. I tried replacing the volume knob with another...

One of the more under-the-radar Epiphones is the Crestwood Custom, made in its original 3+3 tuner configuration from 1958-1962. Lenny Kravitz and The Roots' Kirk Douglas had one of these (Prince used Kirk's in a Tonight Show performance and broke it by throwing it up in the air and not...

I'm a little late to this thread, but thought I'd jump in. I've only ordered one guitar from Wilcutt, a PRS. It is a great guitar, and their communication and service was fine. The only issue I had is that on their web page they understated the weight of the guitar--saying it was 7 lbs. 7...