Category: Sold Gallery

Gibson Historic 1959/R9 Les Paul, VOS Finish, Beautiful Flame, New!

Left Handed Gibson Historic 1959 Les Paul, VOS washed cherry finish, Aged Nickel Hardware, 8 lbs – 13 oz, very flamey top! This is a brand new and unplayed R9 Les Paul from December 2013, with OHSC, COA, all tags, factory shipping box.

Huge savings on this guitar, with an MSRP of $8995 and M.A.P. of $6495- this is the lowest price you will find on a brand new lefty R9 Les Paul!

Model Description:
This year’s Historic 1959 Les Paul benefits from Gibson Custom’s 20th Anniversary Specifications, newly adopted for 2013. These include a one-piece rosewood fingerboard, Kluson™ Deluxe machine heads, hot-hide glue neck fit, a Historic Truss Rod assembly with no tubing, accurate body and fingerboard binding color, new Custom Buckers created in the image of the original PAFs, and period-correct Aniline dye offered in VOS and Gloss.

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1958 Gibson ES-175D, 100% Original with OHSC, Near Mint!

This is an unmolested, unharvested time capsule Lefty 1958 ES-175D! Late 50s/Early 60s original ES-175s with PAFs are getting impossible to find, as the poachers have virtually decimated these guitars for their prized electronics, especially the PAFs. To find a Left Handed example, particularly in this pristine condition, takes the definition of “Rare” to a completely higher and unheard of level!

This guitar is in Near Mint Condition, with only the requisite repair(done very well) on the bottom of the zig zag tailpiece. This was a very common occurrence on these tailpieces, and so they are typically repaired or replaced with the more stable early 50s trapeze tailpiece, such as on my righty 1959 ES-175D.

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1952 Fender Super V-Front Amp, EXC Condition, Recently Serviced!

1952 Fender V-Front Super Amp, recently serviced by my amp tech for the past 15 years, Gary Dahle Pro Audio Repair in Sarasota, FL: http://www.garydahle.com/

One speaker needed to be reconed, so I sent it to the best: Gordon Kjellberg in Seattle (Gordy Kjellberg, 8116 10th Avenue, SW Seattle, WA 98106). The reconed speaker came back looking AND sounding great; Gordon did another amazing job! To quote Gordon:

Your speaker will look the same after reconing. The same cone will be used and we save the original tan gasket and use a charcoal gray felt dust cover like the original, and the voice is wound exactly like the original so the sound will also be the same.

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1950 Martin 000-21L, Original & Rare Factory Left Handed 1950s Martin!

The 000-21 was a model that Martin produced with the 1.68 nut from 1939-1959. Martin only built 97 000-21s in 1950. The production level pales in comparison to the quantity of D-28s built that same year(475), so that gives you a good idea of just how rare the 000-21s are. To find one ordered as a factory left handed model is unheard of!

Features beautiful quartersawn Brazilian Rosewood back, sides, fingerboard, bridge, and peghead overlay, as well as a tighty grained Sitka spruce top. Has a 24.9 scale neck, 15” body, 14 frets to the body, tortoise binding top and bottom.

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1952 Right Handed Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, Killer Vintage Tone!

Vintage 1952 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, Right Handed, has the killer tone these early Les Pauls are known for and this guitar is priced right!

The Goldtop has a really well-done refin, refret with newer bone nut, modern Kluson tuners, was previously converted to a stop tail/Tune-O-Matic and wrap tailpiece(remnants can still be seen), newer wire from the switch to jack. Includes newer Gibson hard case.

Specs/Measurements:

Pickup Outputs: Neck – 8.54K, Bridge – 8.55K
Neck Depth: .89/1st fret, 1.04/12th fret
Pots: 6150689 241(41st week of 1952, all pots are IRC 5 meg)

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1956 Right Handed Gibson Les Paul Special, TV Yellow, Monster Tone!

1956 Gibson Right Handed Les Paul Special, TV Yellow finish, this is a very fine example of a vintage 50s single-cut Les Paul Special! The guitar is all original with the exception of newer tuners, jack plate, and hard shell case.

Overall, the guitar is in EXC Condition, has 1 ding on front and back, some edge wear on the bottom.

Pickup Outputs: Neck – 7.54K, Bridge – 7.39K.
Neck Depth: .92/1st fret, 1.02/12th fret

This guitar was inspected and set-up by Scott Freilich of Top Shelf Music; the guitar needs nothing and is ready to rock!

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