So a while ago I picked this up dirt dirt cheap. It had a couple of holes in it that had been repaired somewhat, no paint, and some weird kind of oil finish, no case, and since the lacquer had been removed the old serial decal had gone too. Electronics had also been replaced with 90's date coded pots and the original pups with 490R 498T combo.
Since it was how it was, I decided to get it painted and use it as a main guitar for some plans i have coming up. The holes got fixed, and the top (which was very boring) go paint gold, and the whole thing lacquered with nitro. As I was taking the guitar apart to send away for painting, i found the original serial number stamped in the control cavity. A repro serial decal was made to replace the old one, which includes the correct serial taken from inside the body. It's a bit weird that it looks and feels brand new, but its actually a 1976 Norlin era Les Paul Standard.
Pickups in there now are the 490R neck, and BKP Alnico Nailbomb bridge. the tone control are wired up to work in future for 50's wiring but right now they are not connected. The volumes pots are 500K and bypassed with 180pf caps a la PRS. All in all a good score. Plays real well. I think these are my favourite spec les pauls.
