songsmith1950
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Today I got a guitar I thought I would never be able to have. Perhaps to some it is a middle of the road guitar but to me it is THE guitar I have looked at and wanted for years. My wife insisted today that I have it. Wow!!!!
Today I got my Custom Shop 56 Goldtop Reissue. . . Got to confess I wanted one so badly I bought an Epiphone of the same type. To be honest the Epi was a very nice guitar and I could have been happy with it.
But. . . I went to a local shop to get an Epiphone Valve Junior head to check out and get familiar with so I could begin to offer the mods everyone seems to love so much.
There She was. . . hanging there, just put out this very morning. Actually she was the first I had ever seen live in a store. I tried to turn away from her and run. I tried so very hard.
Then I saw that the store was selling all of it's Les Pauls for cost! As I looked at the price tag on the R6 I cursed, knowing my soul wasn't worth that much but the guitar was worth so very much more. I knew that at that price I had to have her. Had to.
I thought, again to be honest, that the main difference between the real Custom Shop R6 and the Epi would be minimal, maybe not even noticable. I was so very wrong. For as much as I really do think that Epi was a great guitar this R6 is by far the best built, best playing, best finished guitar I have EVER played or seen. From the frets to the pickups everything shows such a dramatic difference over a guitar I though so great.
Okay fellers. I understand now. I really do. The Custom Shop Historics are everything they are cracked up to be and so very much more.
And now your humble writer is a full fledged member of this board and the Historic group and very proud.
May I please have a seat? Oh, pictures if requested but I am sure you all know the R6 by now.
Tom
Songsmith.
Today I got my Custom Shop 56 Goldtop Reissue. . . Got to confess I wanted one so badly I bought an Epiphone of the same type. To be honest the Epi was a very nice guitar and I could have been happy with it.
But. . . I went to a local shop to get an Epiphone Valve Junior head to check out and get familiar with so I could begin to offer the mods everyone seems to love so much.
There She was. . . hanging there, just put out this very morning. Actually she was the first I had ever seen live in a store. I tried to turn away from her and run. I tried so very hard.
Then I saw that the store was selling all of it's Les Pauls for cost! As I looked at the price tag on the R6 I cursed, knowing my soul wasn't worth that much but the guitar was worth so very much more. I knew that at that price I had to have her. Had to.
I thought, again to be honest, that the main difference between the real Custom Shop R6 and the Epi would be minimal, maybe not even noticable. I was so very wrong. For as much as I really do think that Epi was a great guitar this R6 is by far the best built, best playing, best finished guitar I have EVER played or seen. From the frets to the pickups everything shows such a dramatic difference over a guitar I though so great.
Okay fellers. I understand now. I really do. The Custom Shop Historics are everything they are cracked up to be and so very much more.
And now your humble writer is a full fledged member of this board and the Historic group and very proud.
May I please have a seat? Oh, pictures if requested but I am sure you all know the R6 by now.
Tom
Songsmith.