skydog Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 OK, OK, it was still Gibson's building. Circa 1954
barrymclark Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 "Have you ever thought about changing the headstock? " Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk
tsp17 Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 "Have you ever thought about changing the headstock? " Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk Excellent!
HANGAR18 Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 I'm glad there aren't a bunch of suits meddling around inspecting stuff these days.
DetroitBlues Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 "Seriously, who's going to play that 'blues' music or that fad, rock and roll, with a Jazz guitar?"
HANGAR18 Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 "Seriously, who's going to play that 'blues' music or that fad, rock and roll, with a Jazz guitar?" Yea, what the heck was he thinking? Making a guitar out of solid wood! He must be mad.
fxdx99 Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 "This black is nice, but have you considered doing a burst?"
bolero Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 I think of that pic evry time I walk into 225 Parson's Street! if that's circa 1954, I guess that's a staple P90 in the neck? would be funny to stage a pic exactly like that, at the next PSP...in fact someone remind me, if I forget by August!!
SouthpawGuy Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 I think of that pic evry time I walk into 225 Parson's Street! if that's circa 1954, I guess that's a staple P90 in the neck? would be funny to stage a pic exactly like that, at the next PSP...in fact someone remind me, if I forget by August!! Sounds like a plan to me
HANGAR18 Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 why not gold? A story I found to be humorous, told to me by a guy who said he heard it from Ted McCarty directly... He explained the reason why the guitars we think of as the original Les Pauls were painted gold (ie Goldtops). Back in that day, it was decided that there was something really great about the idea of having a Mahogany body with a slab of Maple on top of it. But back then, it was a top secret propriatary trade secret and they didn't want Leo Fender to learn what they were doing. Today, everyone knows how a Les Paul style guitar is made but back then, they made the first Les Pauls with a Goldtop finish because they wanted to hide the "technology". And secondly I suppose because metallic Gold was a very trendy color back in the world of the 50's.
SouthpawGuy Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 I thought it was because gold / yellow stood out more on black and white TV ? Hence the finish "TV yellow".
Spectrum13 Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 And two years after this photo Marv started sanding bodies. 30 years after the photo Gibson left for Nashville and Heritage started up. Sixty years after this photo the Black Beauty Custom Staple becomes our 30th annversery Heritage. Les and Ted were thinking this 54 Custom would one up that new Stratocaster Leo designed. Little did they know.
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