The Watering Hole

OK after 7 years it was still set up relatively well. A new set of strings and a few twists on the truss rod and all is well again.

Still it is not my favorite type of guitar. Upper fret access is lousy but it ain't than much heavier than my Ibanez RG 321.

However that aside it plays well and has the deepest of the deep Les Paul tone of course.

Onto Craigslist by the weekend.

I'll give you $50 for it without seeing it.  (Craig, it's been so long I forgot my standard bid.  How much was that again?  ;D )

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/msg/2597078023.html

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wow! That's beautiful.  I want it!   :(

Hate to see you sell it but guess you've got your reasons. :)

The gold hardware sets it off...pretty guitar.

Kabala — Sep 14, 2011
Hate to see you sell it but guess you've got your reasons. :)

The gold hardware sets it off...pretty guitar.

It is pretty! Ain't it? Anyways, after playing it yesterday to my backing tracks I thought what a wonderful guitar, but the fucker is mucho heavy, but the tone, oh my my........ It has no flaws in the fingerboard/frets. And only a few cosmetic flaws on the back of the body and neck. I can keep it it ain't hurtin anything at the house here and it has been long paid for.

Lemme get this straight... you've got a vintage LP Custom with a STICKER on the headstock?

My man, that is just not right.  Also did you keep the PAF pickups?  Those alone, even separated from the body, are worth a TON.

I'm dribbling and going green with envy !  Lovely guitar.

charger — Sep 14, 2011Lemme get this straight... you've got a vintage LP Custom with a STICKER on the headstock?

My man, that is just not right.  Also did you keep the PAF pickups?  Those alone, even separated from the body, are worth a TON.

yep there is a sticker on the headstock, and it don't matter to me that it is there, I certainly am not going to remove it after all these years, and no I don't know where the original pups are, they were not PAF's  I would have looked for that, even back in that day PAF's were worth their weight in gold, in fact the pups were covered and gold plated, and they did a feed back squeal when you put it on a turned up amp, At the time I did not know you could have them wax or epoxy potted to eliminate that problem, so I changed them out for the Duncan pups after a try with EMG' actives. Over the years I lost track of the pups, Just now I remembered, I sold a whole bunch of guitar woods, and a guitar workshop table and lots of pickups and other guitar electronics to a guitar maker who lived north of San Fransisco Bay. I had bought a bunch of wood from Martin Guitars in Nazareth Pa from a guy named Dick Boak who ran "The Sawmill" at Martin. I filled a van up with ash, mahogany, Spanish Cedar and other tone woods one day. I was going to go into the guitar making biz, but I never got around to it. I wound up in Reno Nevada for several years with several 20 x 10 storage units full of all kinds of stuff. I sold most of it off and that was part of the booty for that guitar maker.

It is all water under the bridge amigo. I am playing that guitar and truthfully I like it a bunch so if it don't sell I will keep on using it.

Oh I have no doubt you'll sell it for $1600, that's a very good price even with the sticker on it and without the original pickups.  I'd buy it myself if I had $1600...

Jon — Sep 14, 2011I'm dribbling and going green with envy !  Lovely guitar.

Don't slobber Jon, it is only a guitar, a nice one, but it is just wood and electronic stuff cobbled together with a little paint. No biggie. (I never liked Les Paul's that much anyways, so it ain't anything special to me). In fact if someone held a gun to my head and told me to choose one of my guitars and forever after that is the only one I could play, I would choose my $272 dollar Ibanez RG321 (Monetary value aside) Because of the things I did to it, it's vintage value is long gone. It only has playing value anymore. (Or I would ask a small fortune for it) The fucker hurts my old bones sitting and playing it, my rib cage feels like someone hit it with a hammer.

charger — Sep 14, 2011Oh I have no doubt you'll sell it for $1600, that's a very good price even with the sticker on it and without the original pickups.  I'd buy it myself if I had $1600...

The sticker is not the problem, I wanted an inlay put on the back of the headstock so I could spot it from a distance of ever anyone stole it. (I was on lots of coke in those days so I was not really in my finest mental state) So out of paranoia I had the inlay put in at the same time I had it re fretted. The guy who supposedly was the former guitar tech for KISS did a superb job on the re fret but he hacked the Inlay and I put the sticker on it to save my eyes from that shit job (and I paid him for it too which hurt even worse). But to get the guitar out of his shop I had to fork over the money for both jobs. OK it was dumb of me but it is all water under the bridge If I cried over every major mistake I ever made I would have to shoot myself to get some peace of mind ;D.

Nothing I would like better than a ride up to Middle California to deliver it amigo, and the price is now $1,400 because of the changes I made to it.

I really admire you attitude, DBM.  You are one of a kind laid back dude.

That is one nice looking guitar you have.  Good luck on selling it or keeping it.  I can tell it doesn't really matter much to you.

Keebo — Sep 15, 2011I really admire you attitude, DBM.  You are one of a kind laid back dude.

That is one nice looking guitar you have.  Good luck on selling it or keeping it.  I can tell it doesn't really matter much to you.

Most people don't get that it is true I am indifferent to most things regarding money, I am better off financially than I have ever been, so things are really laid back around here money wise. Everything I own is paid for, the only bills we have are electric, HOA dues, property taxes and monthly stuff like internet TV etc. It only costs us about $300 a month to live in our little retirement community without phone, direct TV, and internet access included in that total. And my wife does fairly well as a hairdresser. We have bread in the bank and could survive for years and years financially if everything went south. So that is how I can be so indifferent to something so small in value as one Les Paul Guitar. It really does not matter to me if I sell anything I try to sell. I never sell anything under pressure, since there is no pressure on me it does not matter.