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Recent content by wernerg

  1. wernerg

    The Collection: Kirk Hammett of Metallica

    I just saw the video - has that 1958 Sweet Cherry Les Paul Standard ever been discussed?
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    Just felt like posting it.

    Glad you felt like posting it. Let's see more like this...
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    Michael Slubowski of the Les Paul Forum

    If I could make a request for a subsequent interview at the "Sanctuary" : a video trip through your library of ES-3x5s and ES-330s. Here, in particular, a view of how the roundness / pointiness of the "ears" evolved from 1958 onwards, the thickness of the tops, and at which serial # and/FON...
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    Michael Slubowski of the Les Paul Forum

    Listening to it as I write this. Nice work, @mikeslub !
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    A pair of 1980 Artists

    I never knew they had pointy cutaways like the Heritage ones
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    A lovely '58 Standard

    I don't know about that one - the inlays don't look right to me... ;-)
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    Heritage 80 serial number database / decoding the 4# digit sequence

    When I bought my Elite, it came with a postcard that you were supposed to mail back to Gibson. Is there a record of these?
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    Heritage 80 at carters

    The Heritage, Heritage Elite, and the very rare Heritage Award guitars have an uncharacteristically "pointy" horn in the cutaway. I am seeing a conventional round horn on this guitar.
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    1955 Gibson Les Paul Double Pickguard

    Doesn't the extra pickguard get in the way of palm muting???
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    "The Les Paul"

    A friend of mine has blonde #40 - beautiful. I remember the wine red that Steve Howe had. Love those guitars!
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    '57 Goldtop, early '57 Custom with P-90's, '58 Custom

    as much as I love to look at "fretless wonders" I will never get used to original, low frets.
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    Gaggle of Vintage Goldtops

    Beautiful Mike, thanks or sharing. Begs the question: at what serial # did transitions occur: 1955 from wraparound to TOM, and 1957 from P-90s to PAFs? Or was there even overlap where, say, there is a higher serial on a P-90 '57 than a humbucker '57? I guess I should also look that up in...
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    1980 Gibson Les Paul Heritage Elite - Without Serial numbers

    take a look at the "pointy" horn - that usuallly gives away this series
  14. wernerg

    Tele & Esquire Fun

    Great guitars, thanks for sharing!
  15. wernerg

    Bernie Marsden 1951 - 2023

    According to a Facebook message posted by Neil Murray: our friend, our inspiration and Burst brother Bernie Marsden has passed away. RIP
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