Vintage-Guitar I picked up this special piece on the weekend and thought I should share it with you. What amazed me was the apparent curly,flamed maple top visible under the gold finish.
nick seriously nice git! are these brought in from the US? or did someone in the 50's actually buy a Les Paul and keep it mint?
aubs1 Fritz Brand wrote It doesn't look mint to me, I see some dings? But still droolworthy.........Awesome VG......sure it sounds pretty cool!! ?
Dirk She's beautiful. Wish I had money for Gibson Gold top, had to settle for Epi. It just ain't the real thing
Bob-Dubery Congrats! The gold top with P90s is the only Gibson solid body on my notional wish list. Are there some replacement bits on it? The pup covers look remarkably white for a guitar of that age - I'd have expected them to yellow a little by now.
Banditman The pickups/covers and selector switch ring do look a lot newer than the wear and age show, possibly being replacements, but that'd only matter to a fanatical investor. As long as you didn't pay top mint price then congrats. Seriously sweet guitar, sir. I stand to be corrected but I think that there were Goldtops made with flame to the tops. It is woodgrain after all, and doesn't mean it was bookmatched, but back then they'd have just put the finish down on the wood they had. It was "only" wood and that cool gold paint looked boss in '56, daddio. The 'bursts didn't come onto the Les Paul market until '58, making the only real difference between the '57 Goldtop & the '58 'burst the colour itself. Everything else was basically the same guitar. Similar I suppose to VW freshening up a model like they've done with the Citi Golf. You could run the serial number through the guitardater project site for fun, but there was a lot of inconsistency in serial allocation back then leading to mixed results now. Either way it doesn't really matter. Play the sucker & enjoy it.
DonovanB She is beautiful!! bLuEs wrote She's beautiful. Wish I had money for Gibson Gold top, had to settle for Epi. It just ain't the real thing I'd take one of those...
Vintage-Guitar She would be 100% correct if it were not for a changed Jack Plate... Which can easily be rectified She is by no means mint, but in really good shape considering she is 52 years old. 8)
