Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: gibsongaz#1 on June 25, 2008, 12:18:32 AM
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I have just GAS'ED on a Washburn Custom Shop Les Paul (I think from early 1990's but not too sure!).
It is, hand on heart, everybit as good as a Gibson (and plays smoother) and cost me under £300! I may get a MQ for the neck but it is pretty sweet already.
I have an original 65 Jaguar heading my way in a fortnight too.....what a month for guitars!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/gibsongaz/S7001071.jpg)
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Very tasty! I've never seen one of those beauties before!
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Man,that's a serious copy-clone !Very tasty indeed 8) Would like to see the rest (head)...
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That is a beaut! Seconded on the pics!
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cool guitar
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Very Tasty indeed !
It reminds me very much of the famous Peter Green / Gary Moore Les Paul.
It is however, a beauty in it's own right. Great find !
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Really nice - soundclips?
That may be my colour if....i mean when buy one of those Feline Lions!
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Very Tasty indeed !
It reminds me very much of the famous Peter Green / Gary Moore Les Paul.
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A set of PG Blues would be the order of the day, surely? :D
I had no idea Washburn were building "copies" that recently. I wanna see a headstock pic too!
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I didn't know they made copies like that either.
That is gorgeous!
+1 on headstock photos.
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A pair of gold top hat knobs, some PG Blues, and away you go.
Looks lovely :)
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looks great! sounds like a decent price too. :)
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Look awesome!
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Thanks guys. The headstock is the only bit i'm not a fan of. It would look great on a 335-esque guitar but too big for this IMO....oh well!
I had band practice tonight. It has such powerful pickups. Still feel the need for a MQ in the neck though to mellow it a bit.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/gibsongaz/S7001072.jpg)
I'm not too sure on the background of it and just guessing it's early 90's after looking at Harm-Cent. Others with LP-a-likes recon they were a limited prototype run after someone from Gibbo joined but there is very little info on the net.
If I was the previous owner of this beauty, I wouldn't have sold it for the money I paid! Its is a truely lovely guitar.
Thanks for the interest.
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I don't know if it means anything or not, but that flowerpot inlay is identical to the one on my Tokai SGs. And it has a two screw (rather than 1 or 3) truss rod cover, again like the Japanese Tokais.
I don't actually know if Washburn ever built LP copies in Japan, but on that flimsy evidence I'm guessing it's a Japanese model.
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Yep, I'd agree with Philly. Looks like a Japanese model to me. Similar to the early 80s Tokai's in style (the trussrod cover in particular).
Nice find!
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That would match up with some of the info on LP's on the Washburn site.
How does your Tokai feel? This one has a very fast and smooth neck compared to my previous Gibsons. It has an Ebony fingerboard too.
Thanks
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My Tokai SGs have huge fat necks, at least compared with the Gibson '61 reissue they're most similar to. They're very easy to get around on though.
But they are new models, and I imagine they've done a lot of different neck profiles over the years.
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Cool.
Here are a couple of better pics:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/gibsongaz/S7001087.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/gibsongaz/S7001088.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/gibsongaz/S7001089.jpg)
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It really looks a very nice guitar, at a great price! :D
Here's the Tokai headstock, just to show that flowerpot:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/139d_3flipped.jpg)
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It is identical isn't it!
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Such a nice top on that LP!
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Y'know what, I freaking love Les Pauls. I've messed around with loads of different styles, strats, sgs, teles, but i always go back to my battered epiphone les paul. This has nothing to do with the original washbourne lp, which is gorgeous by the way, but i thought i'd share, as it's a personal realisation.
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Y'know what, I freaking love Les Pauls. I've messed around with loads of different styles, strats, sgs, teles, but i always go back to my battered epiphone les paul. This has nothing to do with the original washbourne lp, which is gorgeous by the way, but i thought i'd share, as it's a personal realisation.
So Teles 4 now, Les Pauls 4 lyf? :wink:
I, on the other hand, have realised that I'm not a Les Paul person. I think they look beautiful, it's a wonderful design, but I just don't get on with the weight and that thick body - I even managed to buy a couple of sub-8.5lb LPs, but I still find the body awkward. They're all sold now.
(Les Paul Juniors, though, are an entirely different matter... love 'em to bits! :) )
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Y'know what, I freaking love Les Pauls. I've messed around with loads of different styles, strats, sgs, teles, but i always go back to my battered epiphone les paul. This has nothing to do with the original washbourne lp, which is gorgeous by the way, but i thought i'd share, as it's a personal realisation.
So Teles 4 now, Les Pauls 4 lyf? :wink:
I, on the other hand, have realised that I'm not a Les Paul person. I think they look beautiful, it's a wonderful design, but I just don't get on with the weight and that thick body - I even managed to buy a couple of sub-8.5lb LPs, but I still find the body awkward. They're all sold now.
(Les Paul Juniors, though, are an entirely different matter... love 'em to bits! :) )
I know! I love my single tele- though it's a tele in body only (a holydiver knocks all idea of twang out of it...) but the les paul shape and tone really appeals. not tried a les paul jr yet, might give the epiphone version a try.
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I don't know about the Korean Epi Jrs, but one of the things I like about the '50s style singlecut Jr is that the neck isn't angled back, so the strings sit close to the body. And the body's a 1.75" thick, flat-topped slab - so it's almost like a set-neck Tele in a way.
Upper-fret access is still a bit cr@p, but I can live with it.
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i tried the epiphone junior (it was chinese, i think?), and it was actually quite nice. Not "japanese-copy" nice, but nice for the price (£160 I think), at least. Played and sounded as nice (if not nicer) to me as several £400 korean- and chinese-built guitars I tried on the same day. :)
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I, on the other hand, have realised that I'm not a Les Paul person. I think they look beautiful, it's a wonderful design, but I just don't get on with the weight and that thick body - I even managed to buy a couple of sub-8.5lb LPs, but I still find the body awkward. They're all sold now.
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Simple slabs of one piece mahogany or korina with 'buckers work best for me :D