In what way?

Nearer 1400 in fact... but you're right, only about 3000 still in existence LOL....! 😁

that's hilarious!

@@hball6695 But largely true..!

@@hball6695 It's funny because it is true...

Gut every single owner probably swear, that its the real deal.

The seller didn't want to end up in Court/prison.......

It was really a joke about the video ending upside down.

@@jeffmariajenson9751 Oh.... it's the way you tell 'em.... 😉😃

Thank you... It's funny looking back now that I was convinced it was a real one when i first started the Zapper (my TooREX nickname..!) thread.... but by about comment 500 (LOL..!) I had changed my mind... It was the 'chew' evidence wot finally done it..! 😁

Very true LOL...! 😁

Exactly... an expensive education, but hopefully worth it going forward! :-)

Now ya tell me LOL..! A bit late, but thanks anyway..! 😃

Nice pics, but not much else...

Oi that's my garden bench..! What was the rant about then...? Tables LOL..?! 😂🤣

@@telegrampam Revised it again... Take care; cheers!

Not really, more of just a hobby..

@@telegrampam I was a School Psychologist for 22 years in Milwaukee. My first passion is writing. I've written a book and 10 screenplays. If you're interested, my book is titled "CONTROL." (A book about people with an excessive need to control other people and things. It's also about people who allow themselves to be controlled). I made a short film on KZfaq called "The Prologue Short Film." Started playing 🎸 six months ago. I'm hooked.

@@lamontprospect9974 Not really into controlling people but thanks anyway and good luck with the book..! 😊

Even 'experts' get it wrong sometimes though... I sent some pics to George Gruhn in Nashville and his Les Paul expert thought it was 'probably genuine', as did well-known collector Tom Wittrock... Some fakes are now VERY good!

Interesting.. thanks!

The red flag for me was the parts being replaced. It’s extremely rare, like seeing a unicorn rare, to find a 1950s sunburst Les Paul with everything changed out. 1950s Sunburst Les pauls have been worth a lot of money since the early 1980s. All the ones the were modded have without a doubt been restored to original given the 6 figure evaluation.

It DID make me wonder a little... I would have expected AT LEAST £50k given the value of the missing parts.... But the vendor's story about inheriting it from his Dutch uncle was very convincing (and he owns HUNDREDS of other guitars...)

@@wilson4180 Maybe... but unrestored ones DO still turn up....

@@wilson4180 they have been worth a lot since the early seventies.. 800 bucks in 72?

Interesting comment! Thanks, will bear that in mind in future!

My pleasure... thanks for your thanks Dan...Makes a change from some of the shite I've been getting on here just recently LOL..! 😀

Which is exactly why I didn't reveal the giveaway under the truss rod cover....

Wow... was it really over a year ago now...! Time flies when you're having a good argument..! 😁

Very possibly...... A Greco or Tokai maybe..?

How can you tell? Not obvious to me LOL..! :-)

Ended up buying a superb '53-'59 Conversion.... fantastic guitar!

@@telegrampam Why butcher a nice vintage Les Paul and try and turn it into something it's not? It will never be a real burst and with all the conversion going on pre-burst Les Pauls are gonna be more rare than real bursts..

@@simonvanderheijden432 Coz it's now a cracking guitar that looks and sounds great... Previously it wasn't....

@@telegrampam I have a problem with people destroying vintage guitars and try to make it into something it's not. You can put a diamond ring on a pig, it's still a pig. It's not a burst and it will never be a burst. I think it's kinda sad..

@@simonvanderheijden432 I think you're "kinda sad" mate... You have NO idea what state of repair the original '53 Gold Top was in before it was converted have you??! Well I have. It was dreadful - it had been refinished in what looked like Dulux emulsion, half the machine heads were either broken or non-original, and one of the P90s was bust... But that's ok is it..? Good luck sticking with your pigs.....

Starting to agree with you. Buy a guitar for how GOOD it is.... not how OLD it is...!

The custom shop reissues sound great no doubt! Expensive but worth it. The upper mid range on the older ones remain unmatched. I'm sure your custom shop pieces will mellow out through time and sound better and better! Always bring a pro with you if you are interested in vintage pieces.Best of luck!

@@whotendsthefire7234 Bring a pro???! That's not a bad idea you know... never thought of that..!

@@telegrampam lol! I've seen many people get ripped off!!! That is why I said it. There's a lot of money fluctuating with these rare pieces. No reason to rip someone off And take advantage of them for big bucks. Have a great day.

@@whotendsthefire7234 People getting ripped off in the vintage guitar market SHOCK HORROR..?! Surely not LOL..! 😁

Might do, but am currently looking at a '53 Goldtop conversion......

...which I ended up buying...! From Yuuki at PGV.. It's superb!

Thank you too!

Interesting comment.... Do you think it's likely to be have originally been a Jap copy then? A '70s Greco maybe? Or Antoria?

Thank you!

Good question..! Because it was apparently 'inherited from his Uncle' he thought he didn't need to. But I should have done.... You live & learn..! :-)

Not if you consider how much work and original parts it needed..

Exactly Steve.... in fact that was one of the 'trade secrets' I mentioned in the video..! :-)

Yep, still no let up in the internet warrior comments LOL..! Fortunately my skin has grown a bit thicker now! 🙂

Absolutely... The threat of Court action helped a bit LOL...! And yes, VERY happy with what I ended up with.. a beautiful '53/'59 conversion by YM that cost about HALF of the dodgy 'Nile' Burst above... 😊

My money's on it being either a '70s Tokai or Antoria, both of which were quality copies at the time...

Or dreams....

The guys on the LP forum called it a 'chew'.... coz it looks like a bite mark..! Not so sure it's 'well known' though... I asked George Gruhn, owner of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville and well known authority on vintage guitars, about the 'chew' and he said he'd never heard of it..!! Not sure I believe him though..!!

www.amazon.co.uk/Gruhns-Guide-Vintage-Guitars-Identification/dp/087930944X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Gruhn%27s+Guide+to+Vintage+Guitars&qid=1618882629&s=books&sr=1-1

@@telegrampam Of course George knows what this is .. If you want to visualise what this 'chew' mark looks like .. look at the Norman Foster aircraft museum roof at Duxford.. it is not a conic section or even a hyperbolic paraboloid ( the shape of a pringle) but Iam sure the 'chew' mark has a mathematical topological name .. I discovered it on the internet many years ago and it is very well known. One way of eliminating 1968 Les Paul bodies as being left over from 1956 Les Paul Standard as there is no 'chew' router entry/exit

it might be a hyperbola shape as I visualise my conic sections .. or even a parabola

@@deepindercheema4917 That's coz they changed the tooling when they re-introduced the Les Paul in 1969... No need to look at aircraft museum roofs to visualise a 'chew'... There are loads of pics on the LP forum. www.lespaulforum.com/forum/ Also, if George DID know what I meant by chew, he is a brilliant actor... Coz he had a totally straight face while I was asking. Most people in the know would have denied it but winked/smiled... :-)

Thank you Sir!

No, as discussed elsewhere (on numerous occasions..!) I'm still no closer to ever finding out how it started life... And as I no longer own it I don't really care. My guess though is it's early/mid 70s MIJ..

Very possibly..!

the japanese guitars generally didn't have one piece necks. they would have a norlin style pancake neck or a 50s style neck but with the headstock jointed on

@@andrewgarcia3136 I'm sure buyers and sellers will learn from your info, great stuff 👍I was telling my mate about your experience yesterday and how much parts cost,his chin hit the floor 😂, also mentioned that repair job on the neck of your guitar,one of the best repair Jobs I've seen,or can't see in your case, it's excellent 👍

Yeah, i suppose i was lucky in the end (the threat of Court action helped a bit LOL..!). The NEW owner however contacted me recently asking me for proof it WAS a fake...!! He's convinced it's not...!! Wonder how much the mug paid for it....?! 😁

@@andrewgarcia3136 I had an Antoria LP in the '70s and I'm pretty sure it was one piece... I still have a 70s Columbus LP though and that IS a 2 piece...

@@noname1st139 It is indeed an excellent repair... In fact i took a '60s SG to the same guy, Leighton, last week to repair a small crack at the headstock.... But he had a good look at it and said it was just a lacquer crack, not the wood itself, and said no repair was necessary.... all free of charge..!! An excellent luthier IMHO, check him out at www.leightonsguitarshop.com/

Remember in the video i mentioned that "a couple of experts had emailed me with a report that the guitar was a genuine Burst"? Tom Wittrock was one of them...... The other works for George Gruhn in Nashville. So do you now see why i was initially convinced it was real...?!🤔 Anyway, the sheer weight of opinion against it being genuine convinced me it wasn't.... including a telephone chat with Gary Winterflood, possibly the best authority on Bursts in the UK (I've actually played a couple of his....!). The chew mark would be VERY easy to replicate in my opinion.... in fact i was tempted to take a wood rasp to the cavity myself LOL...! The 'widows peak' though was mentioned by a number of people on the forum so you're right in that it should have been a giveaway... 😀

And 'black light' appraisals? Having seen a couple of my brand new Chinese guitars light up like Christmas trees under UV light, I now have no faith in it as a means of authentication... Apparently anything will glow if you leave it out in the sun for a couple of hours... (including the bald patch on my head LOL...!) 😂

Not if only 50% of it IS a Burst lol...!

No, the serial number does not turn up on any of the checker sites. And I doubt it was from the late '70s/early '80s - why change the pots to some from the early '70s..?! Still, I doubt we'll ever know. Certainly wouldn't surprise me if it WAS a real Gibson/re-issue... Like I said it played beautifully... 😊

The baseball bat helped JP..... :-)

The vintage guitar world can be dodgy.

@@JP-jy7sk Tell me about it...! Have learnt my lesson....

It is indeed... Sounds and plays great..!

In what way does the 'finish not look right' to you..? Surely you don't think it would be anything like your '89 or '90 models, both nearly THIRTY years newer LOL..?!!

@@telegrampam It could just be the way it appeared in the video- it looked too opaque and didn't have that nice translucent 'dark cherry' color that one expects. It looks very much like my "Chibson" that I got last year.

@@paulsadoff3661 That's coz it's NOT 'dark cherry'... but more of a cherry sunburst. Explains it then... Also, this guitar (whatever it is...) is just slightly better than a 'Chibson'..! 😁

Very nice too!

Who cares.

@@Mr.56Goldtop About what?

@@Mr.56Goldtop hehehe

Very unlikely... they were pretty cheap & cheerful as i remember... My money's on a Tokai..

LOL..! Probably because I STILL bite my nails..! The prices I quoted were estimates given to me by Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, a fairly authoritative source. I think it was only $5k for the switch surround (a bargain LOL..!). But if it transforms a non-original Burst from a $50k guitar to an original one valued at $300k then surely it IS a bargain... And yes, I only recently found out about the ABR1 saddles - it did however have a shield marking underneath. Thanks for your feedback!

Yep... crazy eh..?!

1k for a toggle switch tip (made from catalin)

@@napoleondynamite8564 Even crazier..!!

Because if you can replace replaced pieces with originals of the correct vintage you increase the value. Imagine the difference between 10k burst non- original and 200k one.

i have a new old stock pickguard.. youd have to twist my arm at 15k

Good point... presumably all they have to do is lay their hands on an original Burst and get copying...

Thanks so much for your comment. I agree, the top looks great, as does the whole guitar... That Beauty of Burst book is hopeless as a reference book... it has dozens of pages of pretty pictures but about 2 or 3 only of actual information about the guitars.... Very disappointing. And you're right about genuine ones being accounted for (like Stradivari). With only about 1400 ever made, it's not difficult to track them all down. I was very naive to think I had 'discovered' one... And yes, the vintage market has become a joke... £300k for a guitar? Come off it..?!! I now have a '53 - '59 conversion which is great - it was originally made out of the same wood, by the same people, in the same factory, using the same tooling, as the later 'Bursts. Yet my '53 conversion, which now has a beautiful tiger maple finish, a PAF at the bridge and early '60s PAT at the neck, cost approx a 1/20th of that..... Crazy. Finally, the CURRENT owner contacted me recently (!) wanting to know if I had a formal report about the guitar from an 'expert'. I said I hadn't and his attitude was that it could STILL then be a 'Burst'... The words 'head' and 'sand' come to mind.....

@@telegrampam It was you who posted to the burst tone seekers page asking about ‘the new owner’ not me who requested to speak with you. Additionally, I didn’t contact you asking for a detailed report, that subject came up when you decided to tell me about the involvement with Phil Harris, which I already knew about. I explained at the time why I bought this guitar and that I also have little interest in what other people’s opinions on it are. As I understand it you had the guitar for 2 years and still received your money back when you decided you didn’t like it. That’s a great outcome for you. I’m happy with it and it’s not being sold again. I requested at the time this guitar was no longer discussed, yet here we are with you suggesting I have my head in sand. Perhaps it’s time you resolved whatever issues you have regarding this guitar which I have had possession of in the past and do again now.

@@thekrakken6768 Little interest in what other what..?? Who are you anyway? Are you the new owner/mug/victim?

@@thekrakken6768 Interesting comments. I hope you were able to acquire this guitar (again) at a price better matched with its true provenance. If there's one thing I've learned - the hard way - is that absolutely nothing these days can be taken for granted, especially on KZfaq. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is the way in which character tends to eventually reveal itself. It's the one thing that is difficult to fake. Anyway, thank you for providing another side - more information is always better than less.

Oh sorry about that... I'll dig out all my genuine vintage Bursts instead next time... 😂

He is indeed.... in fact he's the 'famous rock star' i mentioned in the video. I had a good online chat with him on the LP forum about the guitar...

Interesting... I'll add it to the list of differences LOL..!

@@telegrampam yeah, I am becoming a Les Paul geek at 60 years old. I watched a LP verification inspection. Just a little clue I learned. Ive been posting a lot, Im a player, and I developed a magnetic acrylic pick.SVPick.com. lol, its not a huge project, but I use it. Its a custom thing for sure, but it keeps my expensive picks in order. sorry to throw that at you.

It's a fair cop Guv... I'll come quietly..... 😁

@@telegrampam :) in all seriousness, would love to see you do a "walk around" on your '53 les Paul conversion.

In what way?

Something in the shape just didn’t feel right, looking at it anyway. I’ve owned as many as 6 Les Pauls at the same time (I’m crazy that way) and probably 10-12 of them over the years, plus many Gibsons from vintage to Custom Shops. You know, sometimes you look at something (and that’s beyond guitars) and you get an odd feeling.

@@marions.120 The necks on old Gibsons are very different to those on newer ones.. Can't really compare them...

@@telegrampam - I’ve played a number of “old” ones, vintage ones.

Not quite... at least that started off as 'original'...! 😊

About 90% fake..!

OK thanks GGG...! Funnily enough I used to have a '73 (or maybe '74.?) LP Deluxe actually in the Seventies.... It was horrible..!! Those mini-humbuckers just ain't got no bite....! 😀

@@telegrampam ha ha yeah story was one of Thin Lizzy was with manager to buy a new guitar & he first choose a Standard but manager obviously wanted save a lil money and he ended up with the Deluxe. It worked out though as was a good juxtaposition from other mans Standard. Yep, well it still rips though but yep most of course including me if can take pick will choose Standard over a Deluxe that’s a gimme, cheers

@@guitargeargarage1482 Yes, I seem to remember Scott Gorham playing a Deluxe and thinking "silly man..!" I suppose that cranked up to 11 through a Marshall though you could still probably get a half decent rock sound out of it..! 😁

How do you know?

LOL..! Yeah, sorry about that. I have some friends in Australia so it's for their benefit really.... 😂

@@telegrampam hahaha, just ribbing you. Very informative video. When I heard the prices you were talking about I was astounded. I'm glad you got the refund and also glad you didn't reveal the trade secret so the bootleggers didn't the heads-up.

@@loudmouthnewyorker2803 I imagine they already know them.... 😊

Yep, just like with Picassos and Van Goghs there are some very good fakes out there....

rough guesses say there were 1700 of them, many do wind up with pro's and rich dudes, theres quite a few to go around at the moment. its not like a penguin where there were only 90 or whatever.

Lightweight LOL..!

You saying you think it's a real Burst then??! The pickups and controls are more likely to have been 'placed' in the guitar in the 70s rather than REplaced....

@@telegrampam I'm not a guitar expert but I am familiar with old Gibson and Fender guitars because I dated a bass player 40 years ago. Her brother was a guitar freak. Those guitars were prized even back then for their quality wood which they said gave them more "resonance and sustain". Over time rock changed as you know so a lot of those axes got new guts in the 70's and 80's. I remember when a nice Strat or Les Paul ran $600 - $800. Ah, the good old days, and yes, I think that Sunburst is real. It may be a Frankenstein guitar made from parts. That would explain the knobs from 3 model years but who cares if it is? And I don't think it's a Japanese copy because it looks a little too old for that. The real test is to play it side by side against a copy. The real thing sounds better.

@@wsbill14224 Hey William, wanna buy a real Burst then..? Just needs a little bit of work... Yours for say $100,000? 😉

@@telegrampam Ha ha! To me no guitar is worth more than $10k unless it belonged to Jimi Hendrix!

@@wsbill14224 I'll give you $11k for Jimi Hendrix's guitar if you ever end up with it...

And you CAN..??! Yeah right....

No... never did find out.. I suspect that the vendor, elitevintageguitars.com/, know though.....

@@telegrampam Hope they have you a refund. Sorry to hear that. Still a nice looking guitar though.

@@jerrymorganjr Yeah, refunded in full..

Thank you..!

LOL..! Yeah, never was any good at camerawork!

No shit Sherlock LOL..! That's the whole point of the video.. 😁

What did you pay for the Fake! Or, are you ashamed to say! Sorry that you got taken. Normally this happens with Fenders. There have been some really good fakes here in the States and lawsuits were filed. . I knew a guy who bot a fake Sunburst in 1977. That guitar had a 3 piece top and you could still see the the sanding marks from the refinish job. . He was very very sorry.

@@denAlexVA Have you even watched the video..??! It's about the first thing I said..! AND that I got a full refund.... Play attention 007..!

The serial number dates it at 1996.

@@telegrampam ahh i must've read it wrong hard to see if it was a 6 or a 8 in the serial number i guess haha. still lovely guitar those 90s standards. still same principle with the headstock logo...

@@eathanstraker2691 Yes, the 5th digit DOES look a bit like an 8, especially in the video..! Superb guitar though, can't understand why people thought the quality had gone down in the 1990s...

@@telegrampam i think from the wacky colours on the back and sides and pancake bodys and 3 piece bodys and weird wide pointy headstocks from the 70s - 80s i prefer 90s les pauls they are heavy well mine is haha but its a turning point to the right direction i would say the 90s was kinda a "Good Wood Era" for gibson imo... everyone has their own opinion but i know guys who only touch 70s opposed to anything apart from reissue's lol "they can keep em" ill stick with the 90s les pauls standards/Classic's

@@eathanstraker2691 I have a '74 Standard too (since about 1982..) and would NEVER sell it... It's awesome..! 😊

Chibson LOL...! Keep up there lad..! 😉

Latest thoughts are that it was probably originally a '70s Greco which were apparently very good reproductions...

That's fake too LOL...! ;-)

better yet.. who can afford a ferrari and not pony up for an original burst??

@@gregwilson2721 Not me.... an original Burst is 4 times the price of my F430... I ain't no Jeff Bezos..! 😁

What's a clownburst?

LOL......... yeah coz of course me & Joe go way back...! Maybe next time! 😀

in 1960 they changed the dye one the Sunburst and the red didn't fade anymore like the '58's and '59's did. They are called clownbursts or tomatosoup bursts because of the orange hue.

In what way does the 'colour and finish' look wrong to you? Looks very similar to the '60s Standards in the 'Beauty of the Burst' book....

I would HAVE spotted your poor grammar straight away...

@@telegrampam better to have poor grammar than poor eye sight!

@@mrabrasive51 I can buy some glasses... Can you buy a new brain..?! 😂

@@telegrampam i hear the British ones go pretty cheap!..🤪

In what way?

Looks VERY similar to some of the 1960 LPs in the 'Beauty of the Burst 'book...

@@telegrampam to my eye the hue of the red is off and same with the yellow

@@gregwilson2721 You need a new eye....

Yeah right... Probably LOL...! 😂 So what exactly makes you think that then..??!

@@telegrampam but how can you prove it isnt,? far east is now flooding market, Caveat Emptor. look at the fake luxury watch market u tube has v many comparison videos

@@delboyoelmundo4718 Did you actually watch the video LOL..?!

@@telegrampam yup

@@delboyoelmundo4718 You mean 'nope'.... Mate I make a living out of importing Chinese guitars, and have done for the last 10 years.... Do you think I might know a Chinese guitar (good quality that they are these days..) from a real Gibbo??! Think about it... for 10 seconds or so.

elitevintageguitars.com/

I noticed tonight that they've got another "vintage" Les Paul for sale... A '53 Gold Top... I wonder how fake that one is LOL...!

elitevintageguitars.com/gibson-models/les-paul-models/gibson-les-paul-standard-1953/

You kidding? Given the quality of Gibsons these days..?! And NEVER cross a road... you'll be taking a 'hell of a risk'... 😁

@@telegrampam Trust me, I've taken more risks in my life than most people will take in 10 lifetimes. I'm just saying if you have to talk to all of these different people to find out if something is authentic or not, well you got a lot more time on your hands than I do.

@@lamontprospect9974 Like what? You bought a second-hand moped without checking the spark plug first..?! Or ate a whole pack of chocolate hobnobs at least a whole week past its sell-by date...?! Yeah, I bet you really live it up..! 😂 And yes thank you, having retired from The City and paid off my mortgage i have plenty of time on my hands.... generally in the garden with a radio and cold beer.... and i love it..! 😊

Quack......

You kidding..??! They cost a hell of a lot more to maintain than a guitar (not that you'd know clearly....)

Strativarius Guitars Great comeback.

Jeeeeez..did you actually listen to what I was saying in the video...? I said "after reading many books LIKE the Beauty of the Burst book", and watching ALL the authentication videos on youtube... Like this excellent one... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iaxkhbWrnNPefIU.html . In fact can you actually understanden zee Englisher lingo ja ja Mein Herr..??! Or are you not "experted" enough LOL..?! 😂🤣

LOL... Good luck with them then....! 😁

@@telegrampam hey here's a little reality for ya...first off Les Paul worked on his solid body guitar AKA the Log in the Epiphone factory not Gibson Epiphone facility in China is American run and operated American luthiers and supervisors on site Scott Lewis is Master builder and plant supervisor Lewis was also Master builder for Gibson and the American luthiers that are there also were with Gibson directly also Epiphones are 70% hand crafted the very same as Gibson.. Epiphones history Smokes Gibson oh Gibson did not invent the open book headstock or the Les Paul body style and Les Paul himself was directly involved with Epiphone from 1940 until his death in 2009 I could go on and on

@@jayrichardson5811 Whatever mate... can't be arsed...

@@telegrampam it's not what ever dude it's all facts not some empty bullshit opinion and I didn't even scratch the surface....what people should start doing is research before they say anything it could stop you from really looking Stupid in the end

No it's a period correct narrow waist California girl case. There are several variants in shape.

@@c.p.1589 Agreed C.P.... that's one of the few things the forum experts agreed on. It IS a Cali girl case... (worth 3 or 4 grand on it's own...!) 😁

I kind of agree.....but if this guy is a multi millionaire 30k is like the rest of us buying a 1000 quid guitar...of course if we lived in a fair world the 800 quid I'd pay for a guitar and the 30k this guy can afford would be far better spent helping the poor ...but we don't live in a fair world....personally old vintage guitars are over rated....I once in the 80s played a 54 strat side by side with a tokai copy my dad's mate had and the tokai was the better guitar...he eventually sold the 50s strat to a guy who was a landlord who collected guitars and still owns the tokai....which incidentally has after 30 years playing taken on the vintage hue...lol

You ever heard of the word 'investment'..? No, thought not... Something is worth as much as someone else is willing to pay for it.. A pristine '59 recently went for nearly $1m in the US recently.... I bet the original owner of that guitar didn't think it was such a 'stupid purchase'...

@@paulcartwright2810 I'm FAR from being a multi-millionaire.... I've just worked hard and saved up for a long time to buy some decent guitars... You're right about SOME old guitars though... my '83 JV Squier knocked spots off my '62 Fiesta Red Strat, both in terms of sound and playability... But then I came across a '64 L Series... which blew away the JV..! All depends on the individual guitar.....

True...a great guitar is a great guitar...regardless of age...older played in guitars do have a cool vibe though...I've got a old early 80s ibanez roadster and a USA 80s b c rich gunslinger (think 1 pickup Eddie van Halen vibe)...and whilst not quite in the same league as super desirable fenders and gibsons kudos wise..but even so all the years of playing certainly make a difference compared to my newer guitars ...the b c rich particularly has a unfinished oiled quartersawn maple neck to die for...most people who are negative about players buying vintage guitars is envy...I don't own any vintage guitars as such but I enjoy people like yourself who show them on KZfaq and it makes me enjoy my modern equivalent...actually I did own a 50s les Paul junior single cut in the late 80s...with a old top boost ac30...but I didn't appreciate what I had at the time lol...I now own the modern equivalent reissues...but I cannot remember if the old junior was better or not...it probably was ...lol...I prefer les Paul junior to the les Paul standards to be fair..them and strats ...put some videos of the other guitars you got off the les Paul guy..

@@paulcartwright2810 Very true... a great guitar is a great guitar.... irrespective of its age or the decal on it's headstock... Two of my favourite guitars are an '83 JV Squier and a '90s Washburn N2.... Both cost me about 150 quid and both are awesome..!! (shame you can't post pics on here, otherwise I would..!) 😊

Fools can't spell either.... I'm not a bird you know..! 😂

Wot? Don't understand you.. What do you mean?

WHo the f*ck are you to tell me what i can and can't do with my money..?! I worked very hard for it so I can spend it as i like... As it happens, I bought an amazing 53/59 Conversion after this one and i get a lot of pleasure from it.... So do one creep!

And 500 quid for an Epi??! They must see gullible dickheads like you coming all the time then.... I have a fabulous Epi 335 that cost me £200, and an equally good Epi SG Special that was £100..!! 500 quid my arse..!

Yeah, that caught me by surprise as well. ✌️🤪🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵

Why? My '53 is even heavier..!

@@telegrampam -Yeah, I played a ‘52 and it felt pretty heavy?

@@telegrampam most burst are know for being fairly light. Most people think that a good Les Paul should be heavy but that's bs. The best ones are well under 4 kilogram.

@@marions.120 They are Marion... solid Brazilian mahogany IS heavy..! Which is why Gibson changed over to the SG design in 1960....