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bugman4214

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well another rossie was offered to me today, 9pds and a very nice top, i am thinking hard on this one, its a lot of money, and i need to move a few guitar, but if wanted an ultra aged guitar for a while and the rossie and the best i think, if i go for it ill post picks for sure
 

trendkiller

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Mods or not...
I changed the pick ups to an aged set of Bare Knuckle VHII's a few years back, and had a RS kit installed as well. These are very easy reversible mods, if I ever will sell off my Rossington.
IMO the pups are "it" on my Ross, as good as the original BB's are, the BK VHII's just med the Ross sound killer.

Btw, I met up with Mr Gary Rossington last year, and he signed my LP personally (Now I have two signatures on the back, hehe..).

Already beeing "the" keeper, my Rossington became a def.personal keeper as long as I'm able to play. I guess it will hang on a wall to look at when I'm turning 90 years or something, haha.

BTW, looking at the Rossington as a guitar with all parts involved, it really is the among the 3-4 best LP's I've ever played or owned (not incuded some originals).


Rock!
2B
 

Steve Craw

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I hope you all are sitting down...






I sold my Rossington! The new owner is a member here, and I hope he will love her and enjoy her as I did. She's been agreat guitar, and she'll be missed, but with the completion of my R6 makeover, she wasn't getting the play time she wanted.
 

Todd Louis

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I hope you all are sitting down...






I sold my Rossington! The new owner is a member here, and I hope he will love her and enjoy her as I did. She's been agreat guitar, and she'll be missed, but with the completion of my R6 makeover, she wasn't getting the play time she wanted.
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wah

Hey man where is the make over?
 

jb_abides

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I hope you all are sitting down...






I sold my Rossington! The new owner is a member here, and I hope he will love her and enjoy her as I did. She's been agreat guitar, and she'll be missed, but with the completion of my R6 makeover, she wasn't getting the play time she wanted.

Damn, and it wasn't me... I was hoping, but just don't have the cash right now.

Sure it found a good home! :salude
 

Steve Craw

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HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wah

Hey man where is the make over?
Here you go Todd! She's a 2007 R6, 8lb, 13 oz. I had Electric Lloyd reshape the neck, using Johnnyslim's 52/56 conversion as the template for the perfect neck profile. Gord Miller did a refin, relic, and mved the "Gibson" pearl inly down to the correct placement on the headstock. The inlay is also the correct 50s' style, note the "b" and the "o". The parts are mostly from the 50s', including an original 52/53 creme lefty pickguard, from a well-known lefty collector, and member here. The pickups are from a 1956 Special. A friend of mine had these in his parts stash for over thirty-five years, and not only do they sound amazing, they're stupid clean. The knobs, pots and caps, pointers, bridge, tailpiece and studs, trussrod cover, switchtip, jackplate are also vintage 50s parts. The only parts that aren't vintage are the tuners, backplates, and pokerchip.
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Steve Craw

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I installed a beautiful set of "Buzzy" cellulose-nitrate inlays. These are cut from celluloid from the 1950s.
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Steve Craw

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Pictures in posts #349, 353, and 354, were taken while I still had the stock pickups in the guitar, so not the 50s' P-90s that I have in it now. Probably the main thing that was the end of the Rossington for me, was the neck reshaping that Lloyd did for me. I wouldn't reshape the neck on a limited edition guitar, but love the feel of neck on the R6 so much, that every time I'd go for the Rossington, I'd hang it back up in it's display case.
 

Steve Craw

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Here's a pic, showing the neck after the reshape, but before the refin. You can see where the shoulders were sanded back.
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CONGRATS- GREAT PHOTOS- very coo VINTl GT-
now onto the bad news:
I have an eerie feeling of regret coming on- a bit down the road-
better keep an extra box of tissues nearby- they may not be tears of joy.
Guitars are a bit like Kryptonite and women-
Was the trade up? Only time will tell- too bad you could not keep both.
But sometimes you gotta choose and move on.
 

oldflame

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I have GR120 'Downunder' with me guys (Singlecut's old gal). I guess I could post some shots if you're interested?

Also have a set of extra Burstbucker pickups from a Rossington that I bought off ebay a few years back. Can't recall the serial # of that guitar. However, I do recall that the seller was replacing all the gold parts with nickel.

Actually, one popped up here on Aussie ebay a couple of months back but I think it turned out to be a scam. The bidding ended at about $6500 Australian though.
 
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