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1982 GIBSON LES PAUL CUSTOM SILVERBURST Info:   Here is my 1982 Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst with all black hardware. This has been one of my most favorite guitars I have ever owned. It truly pains me to lose it but times are tuff. The tone from this guitar is like no other. I am a professional player and have used many types of guitars but I am a  Les Paul man at heart and itâ??s the best and most interesting sounding Paul I have ever owned. It has a certain growl that is unmatched. I have many other Les Pauls and they donâ??t come ... Read Full Story

The Gibson Guitar Corporation of today started as Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. in 1902. Orville Gibson had radically changed the mandolin, making it more streamlined, easier to mass produce and by far better sounding than the mandolins of that time. During the 1920's Gibson sought to reproduce some of his innovations with the mandolin into archtop guitars. In 1922 the Gibson L5 was released. The original L5's were all acoustic guitars and featured an f hole in the upper sound board to help project sound. Pick-ups were not added to this guitar until 1951 when Gibson released the L5CES. In 1958 the humbucker pickup ... Read Full Story

Here are the search results for the guitar based keyword gretsch electromatic . If the query did not return guitar items that you have an interest in, may I suggest adjusting the search phrases. If you only get hardly any guitars, consider modifying your search term. For instance, if you were trying to find a 1980 Ibanez hollowbody but found no results, try altering your search terms or searching on the brand name only. If the search located too many results, try searching again using more specific search term(s). Gretsch G5246T Double Jet Electromatic Electric Guitar    US $449.00 Gretsch G5135GL G Love Electromatic Corvette ... Read Full Story

Because of the amount of “bogus” PAF (Patent Applied For) Gibson humbucker pickups out there, I was asked to create this web page (thanks to GW Dean and BurstMeUp for information and pictures). This web page includes information on the pickups themselves *and* their plastic mounting rings. The originality of the pickups and their mounting rings are both important factors in the integrity of a vintage Gibson guitar. All of these parts can be found on the Vintage Guitar Zone website. There are some basic facts that should be known about these first-generation humbucking pickups. First PAF pickups came about in 1956 on Gibson ... Read Full Story

Mike McFar asked: Every guitar player that has ever been born lives for the day when he/she can pick up a vintage guitar. Vintage guitars are available in all major manufacturers and brands. But it’s not only musicians and guitar enthusiasts that are attracted to these masterpieces. Vintage guitars can also be viewed as an investment. You’re probably saying to yourself right now “How can a guitar be an investment?”, “Is buying a vintage guitar really a good investment?” Allow me to enlighten you a little. To the untrained eye, a guitar is a guitar. Now we aren’t talking about the walls of instruments ... Read Full Story