Epiphone Les Paul, found digging around in a pawn shop & my other guitars

PaulJ

Found this little honey in a pawn shop tucked away behind the counter....R1900, I think it was worth it. She plays like a dream and not a scratch on her.

Guitar 01
Year: 1976
Ibanez Double neck 12 String / 6 String

This one was issued before Ibanez got sued by Gibson for copying the Gibson model. All they did was change the headstock design after the lawsuit.

Guitar 02

Washburn "Culprit" Born in 1998, designed by Dimebag Darrell, I'm gonna cry........it's that beautiful.

Guitar 03
Ibanez RG Custom, we customised this ourselves, paint job, scaloped the wood below the floyd rose, cut out the handle in the body, new tuning heads and had a stainless steel scratch plate laser cut. The paint job is actually a plastic wrap that you find on plastic soap dispensers in public toilets, we digged the look of it and had it wrapped onto the guitar body, then put a high gloss spray ontop.

Guitar 04
SEPULTURA
Year: 1984 Ibanez Destroyer II
Signed by Sepultura on their 2003 S.A. Tour

Guitar 05
Hohner Chet Atkins Signature Model

Guitar 06
Cort 5 String Bass

Guitar 07
Fender Gemini Steel String Acoustic

Guitar 08
Washburn Nylon Classical

Guitar 09
Framus Vintage
Year: 1966
12 String Electric Framus Vintage

Amps
Year: 1961
Marshall 100Watt Bass Amp

MikeM

Wicked bargain man ?

giggsy

You lucky man... always hope to find something like this when I go to a pawn shop

inflames

Stunning guitar and at a super bargain price!
I love the Epiphone Les Paul's!

aubs1

Oh my gosh, that looks brand new!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky man, congratulations........ ?

Keira-WitherKay

yep awesome find........... yeah lots of bargains if you look hard enough ........

Corne

Congrats you lucky fish.
They go easily for twice that price.

Wish I could find deals like that.......... :'(

nick

Nice find! Id have snapped that up in a second, pretty much what Im looking for 8)

TomCat

Nice one..... :applause:

PaulJ

aubs1 wrote: Oh my gosh, that looks brand new!!!!!!!!!!! You lucky man, congratulations........ ?

I think the guy who pawned it must have bought it new, then got rid of it the next week as it looks like it's straight out the box.

Riaan

Seriously good buy that! Well done!

dee

O wow. What is that, honey burst? Tea burst?

Squonk

Where did all the other guitars come from?

That Washburn by Dimebag looks amazing?
How does the Hohner play?

DonovanB

just as I was thinking, "My word you hve alot of guitars." i realised I'm not far off the mark. Although I got rid of a few so I only have 7 now. whew.

Nice Epi, and that stack looks like it would win the war...

PaulJ

Squonk wrote: Where did all the other guitars come from?

That Washburn by Dimebag looks amazing?
How does the Hohner play?

Most of my guitars have been bargain finds,

Double neck - R3000, found it in Durban, almost fell over backwards when I saw it!
Sepultura Ibanez - R1500, although it was glitter blue when I found it.
Hohner - R1900, I'm actuall selling it at the moment R1200
Washburn Culprit - R3000
Fender Acoustic - R700 in a pawn shop, stickers all over it and someone had put nylon strings on the thing.
Framus Vintage - Found in my neighbours attic, they gave it to me!
Marshall stack - R800, my friend moved to the USA and his dad had the marshalls sitting in the garage for about 20 years, so he said make me an offer!!

vic

Hi Paul , nice collection. Your Marshall stack date is wrong I think...they only started manufacturing around 1964/5 ? 1961 is too early..

PaulJ

vic wrote: Hi Paul , nice collection. Your Marshall stack date is wrong I think...they only started manufacturing around 1964/5 ? 1961 is too early..

When I opened the head up, I saw a sticker dated 1961, but will double check. There should be a way of tracing it through the serial number.

BMU

Love the collection, some seriously different things there. So that RG: you cut the JEM style monkey grip yourself? - very cool, love the finish. That Washburn I've never heard of, also very cool.

Vintage-Guitar

PaulJ wrote:
vic wrote: Hi Paul , nice collection. Your Marshall stack date is wrong I think...they only started manufacturing around 1964/5 ? 1961 is too early..
When I opened the head up, I saw a sticker dated 1961, but will double check. There should be a way of tracing it through the serial number.

Looks like a mid 1970's 100w Super Bass to me. The letter at the end of the serial number will ID the year. 8)

PaulJ

BMU wrote: Love the collection, some seriously different things there. So that RG: you cut the JEM style monkey grip yourself? - very cool, love the finish. That Washburn I've never heard of, also very cool.

Yep, we just went through to TOMS music store and took some measurements off of a Ibanez JEM then did the monkey grip cutout/scalloped out the back of the neck and just under the floyd rose. I haven't seen many Washburn Culprits around, apparently this was the only washburn Dimebag Darrel designed before he moved over to his Dean Guitar sponsership. I have to admit, it's one of the most brutal sounding guitars I've ever played and the action and feel is awesome. This taken from Wikipedia:

Dimebag Darrell ML body style Dimebag Signature series. Washburn's Dean ML-style Dime 333 and radical Gibson Explorer-like Dime Culprit models were the most popular. The Dime 333 had a floyd rose, the 332 model featured a stop-tail bridge.
The Culprit, with its sliced-up Explorer-style body, featured a Floyd Rose tremolo, a mirror pickguard and a pair of hot ceramic humbucking pickups with chrome cover.