Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: TheIronBeast on May 02, 2009, 06:55:10 PM
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So the other day I just won on eBay what I thought was a pretty damn good deal! A Gibson 1978 The Paul, with everything original and even the original case which is quite an unusual looking one. The guy who I bought it from e-mailed me and said he was out of the UK at the moment and will ship it on wednesday, so hopefully I should have it by friday or saturday. I've read some good things about the Gibson T Top Humbuckers as well, can't wait to play it! Picked this up for £696 which I think is a pretty good buy!
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As a Gibson fan I really can't wait to check this baby out.
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Is that a rosewood fretboard? Its very dark.
How do you get on with those kind of frets?
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Looks like a really tasty axe! That switch is in an interesting position; it would probably suit me better, as I tend to strum quite far forward and sometimes switch pickup by accident.
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Is that a rosewood fretboard? Its very dark.
How do you get on with those kind of frets?
It's an ebony fretboard, with a walnut body and neck.
As for the frets I'm not sure as I'm still waiting on the guitar being delivered.
Will post my thoughts on the guitar once I've got it and played it for a bit.
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Looks like a really tasty axe! That switch is in an interesting position; it would probably suit me better, as I tend to strum quite far forward and sometimes switch pickup by accident.
Yeah that was the first thing I noticed when I saw the guitar, I think all of The Paul's were made like that, not 100% sure though.
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nice guitar
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Looks like a hot-rodded ukulele to me 8)
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Looks like a hot-rodded ukulele to me 8)
think you may need my glasses if thats what you see
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Wow, I like the look of that! Nice case with it too :)
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I was thinking it was either dark RW or very aged ebony. Love the look of it.
I really enjoy rythme playing with those frets, you can really feel the board
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the case is a nightmarish thing emerged from the darkest abyss of eighties, but the guitar itself is really beutiful! i nevere heard of pauls before... it's basically a les paul studio with different wood combinations, isn't it?
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the case is a nightmarish thing emerged from the darkest abyss of eighties, but the guitar itself is really beutiful! i nevere heard of pauls before... it's basically a les paul studio with different wood combinations, isn't it?
I think The Paul's are very similar to a Studio except with walnut wood and the pickup switch is in a different position. After The Paul was was discontinued they made the Firebrand which was pretty similar but with a double cutaway, then in the 90's they made the reissue, The Paul II.
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the case is a nightmarish thing emerged from the darkest abyss of eighties, but the guitar itself is really beutiful! i nevere heard of pauls before... it's basically a les paul studio with different wood combinations, isn't it?
The guitar is from early November '78 and I think the cases are standard for that time?
My protector case took a chip of paint off of the neck on the way back from Croydon, just a little warning.
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Looks really nice, I've always liked the look of those Pauls. Would prefer the pickup switch in the usual place though, I find it really handy having it there.
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Looks great
I rather like the The Paul guitar
I think they put the switch down at the bottom to keep assembly simple
Those frets should be ok - you may want them carefully dressing and the tops neatly reprofiling (that is what we did to Will's frets on his Gibbo).
Or once you have played it to death get a neat refret done
But a fair price for what may be a great fun axe
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Looks like a good acquisition :D
And I'd always wondered why "T Tops" were called that! :roll: :lol:
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I think the T on the bobbin was to tell the person asembling the pickup which side was the top of the bobbin
Thus eliminating phasing problems amongst other issues
As the coils were always originally going to be under a metal cover the visible T wasn't going to matter.
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... you need to get that string sorted out. The angle is all wrong.
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looks nice. i do like these a lot
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very nice guitar! FWIW, I rather like the look of the pickup selector in that position :)
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I like it, LPs without maple tops and all the fancy trimmings are great! :D
The only thing I'm not keen on is the switch position, it doesn't seem very sensible. SG's from that period had the same layout, but it didn't last long!
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plus the usual switch position is very cool!
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they're made from Walnut with a Ebony Fret Board I had one of these which I sold to a student of mine and it's a very nice guitar I paid about £500 for mine.
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i was watching that guitar myself! glad i didn't bid you up!
it's a gorgeous little thing, and i do hope to have one at some point. you said the firebrand was a double-cut, but i think there was also a firebrand that was exactly the same as this, except of course the gibson logo was branded. i always found that very cool! the double cut was more like a downsized 335, if i remember correctly.
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it's a gorgeous little thing, and i do hope to have one at some point. you said the firebrand was a double-cut, but i think there was also a firebrand that was exactly the same as this, except of course the gibson logo was branded. i always found that very cool! the double cut was more like a downsized 335, if i remember correctly.
Yep, the double cut was called the 335-S (for Solid! :) ), and again I think some had the Firebrand logo and some didn't.
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I like it, very old school. :D
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I recieved the guitar today. After a bit of noodling around find that I really love this guitar! The body isn't as thick as a Les Paul but not as thin as an SG either. It certainly has that big LP sound and, IMO, the T-Top Humbuckers sound fantastic for their age, especially the neck! The neck is really smoth and very comfortable to play, this is a very good guitar for playing bluee, it handles both clean and overdriven blues stuff really well.
I am playing a gig tomorrow night and I think I'll definitely be trying out this guitar in a live situation. The only flaw is with the pickup switch position, I would prefer it to be in the usual place but oh well. Overall it's a great guitar and can't wait to take it out gigging!
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Great that you like it! :)
The only flaw is with the pickup switch position, I would prefer it to be in the usual place but oh well.
Modify it wouldn't be very hard :)
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stop it fernando!! ;)
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stop it fernando!! ;)
:o ok then
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Great that you like it! :)
The only flaw is with the pickup switch position, I would prefer it to be in the usual place but oh well.
Modify it wouldn't be very hard :)
You'd need a very long drill bit to make a wiring channel from the upper bout to the control cavity!
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actually philly it would make more sense to drill from the neck cavity to the new switch position and then use the existing channels from there.
i still wouldnt recommend changing this guitar though
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actually philly it would make more sense to drill from the neck cavity to the new switch position and then use the existing channels from there.
Good point. It was staring me in the face really wasn't it? :oops:
I agree with you though, I wouldn't change the guitar either. Seems a shame after it's survived 30 years unmolested.
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Seems a shame after it's survived 30 years unmolested.
Or experiment the pleasure of carnal wonders, depends on point of view :P
Serious, I've no idea about market value and if it's desired by the collectors, if it's not I wouldn't mind changing... The only one I saw here in brazil went dirty cheap on our "eBay" (would be something like £500 IIRC)