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NGD - 1989 Les Paul Custom Lite in Sunrise Metallic

Tollywood

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I am playing in a hair band cover band but I do not have a guitar with a Floyd Rose. Neither does the other guitar player; we both play Les Pauls. I decided to get a Les Paul with a Floyd but I wanted a Lite because we stand there for four hours and Les Pauls sure do get heavy. I had been watching this guitar on Reverb for months but it was way overpriced. The seller dropped the price 30% so I pounced on it.

1989 Les Paul Custom Lite. The color is perfect for the 80s music that we play. I am beyond excited. The guitar hasn’t arrived yet.



One of the pickup rings is cracked. They both look flatter than the usual Gibson pickup rings. Does anyone know where I can buy replacements?
 

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Nice score! Perfect guitar for what you want to do. I've got a 1989 LP Standard and an ES-335 and I love the neck carves they both have. I wonder if yours will be similar (a nice happy medium between a 60s and 50s style).
 

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Nice score! Perfect guitar for what you want to do. I've got a 1989 LP Standard and an ES-335 and I love the neck carves they both have. I wonder if yours will be similar (a nice happy medium between a 60s and 50s style).
We shall see. I like both neck carves but I prefer them on the fat side. I will be happy either way.
 

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I just ordered a set of black Sheptone Wanker pickups, F spaced. I think they will get me where I need to be with this guitar.
 
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I just ordered a set of Sheptone Wanker black pickups, F spaced. I think they will be perfect for this guitar.
I accidentally quoted myself and I don’t know how to delete it.
 
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So, I bought it Thursday night. Then, on Sunday the seller said he didn’t want to drop it off at UPS over the weekend and he created a shipping label at that time. On the UPS website the current status is “label created - the delivery date will be provided as soon as possible”. I think that means that he has not dropped it off at UPS yet.

I don’t want to be pushy since he lowered his price by 30% and I fear that he may have seller’s remorse and if I say anything he might just cancel the sale…but today is Tuesday.

Your thoughts?
 
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Whew, false alarm. Tracking now shows that it will arrive on Thursday. I am taking the day off from work so that I will be here for it’s arrival.

I suspect that he just dropped it off at UPS this morning.
 
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jb_abides

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The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The Waiting Is The Hardest Part!
 

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While looking up this model online, I have noticed that some people call the color Sunrise Metallic and some people call it Sunset Metallic. Does anyone know which is accurate?
 

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One of my pickup rings is cracked. I called Gibson Customer Service about buying these pickup rings. They don’t have them but told me to sand down a modern neck pickup ring to be flat.

Paul Reed Smith guitars with a tremolo have flat pickup rings so I am going to use those.
 

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Delivery day is today. I went to bed early so that today would get here faster. I am not working today so that I can be home when it arrives.
 

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I feel for you.

iPhone 14 Pro was supposed to be delivered today but Apple put out a notification to all shippers to delay until Friday, so first wave all arrive in one feel swoop.

Grrr... I planned today around signing for it!
 

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I have the same in white and although it is a Lite , it is not particularly light, btw absolutely no need to change the original pickups, these are Bill Lawrence designed when he was working for Gibson and they are brilliant , this is mine when the previous guy had it
 

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It's super cool - here's another:

1989-gibson-les-paul-custom-lite-metallic-sunri.jpg

 
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