SOLd John Bruno
1959 R9 Gibson Les Paul Historic Make Over With Brazilian Rosewood Fretboard and Real Nitro Relic Finish and Built With Hide Glue
The last 4 pictures are this GREAT LP next to a 1959 Real LP, & 1959 Max LP. and in a real LP 1959 Case.. This will blow you away in everything.. 1 more time Everything! 1st question I want to ask you. Do you own a real 60's Brazilian fretboard les paul? You do know a 2014 Gibson R9 is $6299 street price plus TAX as Musician Friend, Sweetwater ect. and that is NEW wood, not Brazil fretboard, and IN MY WORDS. Not that good!. SO A NEW R9 with Tax is $6,804 Green sounds Green! Always did, always will!
All the work done in building these Make Over is $5,000 labor ( you still need Les paul to start with in these make overs) at Historic Make Over,In FL.
Dan Shinn done this for me at Lays Guitar. He is a Pro. Call my shop if interested in all facts if write up is not clear.
Basically.. This is a Gibson R9 2011 LP Neck. 1960's Brazil, 1950 inlay installed, bigger more correct truss rod....Body is OLD Honduran Mahogany (30-40 years old), Old (in private stash) maple flame top. Long Neck Tendon off coarse. Hide Glue Used.. Rest read...YOU WILL NOT BE Disappointed.. my dan words. It's FREAKY GREAT! Like Magic GREAT! I can't get over it! Great!
Made by 1 person that is a Master Craftmen, not a employee of thousand at a factory. Old Wood, 30+ years in the Biz.. Sold by the finders of Choice Guitar's.. Me!
2011 Gibson Les Paul Standard R9 (Neck Build) that has been upgraded to the max!!!
Features;
WOOD CONSTRUCTION;
Lightweight guitar and is solid wood not weight relieved. 9lb,8oz
SUPER FLAME!!!!!!
VERY DARK Brazilian Board from the early 60's. Jescar
6105 stainless frets
Fretboard material came from a stash that belonged to a wood hoarder since the early 60's. Educators Lumber who supplied most of the high school wood shops around the US is where the wood came from originally, sold it to the hoarder. Pre-ban era!!!
Vintage truss rod construction. Replaces the very soft rod that Gibson uses in their guitars now
REAL Vintage 50's Celluloid inlays
Royalite Vintage Binding. IDENTICAL to binding on 50's Gibson Les Paul Guitars
Refinished in PURE VINTAGE NITRO LACQUER with no Plasticizers in the Nitro Lacquer that would prevent weather checking
Color is a light fade with most color remaining but colors are not fade resistant so the guitar color will eventually fade just like the originals.
Finish is a Relic with aging and weather checking
Correct placement of the Les Paul Model silk screen. Correct serial # font and size
It has a Old Growth Honduras Mahogany Body. (original was damaged). With Old (saved) Maple Flame Top
Bone Nut for that final tone enhancement!!!!
ELECTRONICS:
Pots are a calibrated set of CTS pots with Luxe .022 Bumble Bee Caps.
Pickups are a custom set of Brandon Wound Double White PAF Relic Pickups
HARDWARE:
Steel Stoptail bushings not factory cast ones
Non-wire Gibson ABR-1 and Lightweight Stop Tail
Single Line Kluson relic brand tuners which are more realistic to originals
More correct vintage 50's volume and tone knobs (in color and look)
To sum it up, whats the point of all this work?
Take what Gibson started, which is a reasonable replica of their 50's Les Paul's but make it MUCH MORE ACCURATE to the original 1959 Les Paul Standard's.
Most Les Paul Standards are compared to the Original 1959 Les Paul Standard
Sale is for 1959 R9 Les paul and Case...Not my vintage strings or book..:)
So at the end of the day one can say,oh this is not all made by Gibson. Well the FAT Chunky Neck with Long Tendon was. Thats really the most single most Important thing. You hold and have contact with, but NOW you have correct size truss rod, Brazilian Rosewood Fretboard, 1950's inlays, Correct Nitro, Correct Binding, and even More Real Kluson Tuners. So (sorry gibson fans) now you have it DONE RIGHT. The body and Maple Top is OLD 30+ years, cut to real 1959 dimensions. Long neck tendon..whole 9. Joe Bonamassa has 2 real 1957 Gold Tops. One is 8lbs, other 9.5lbs. He just said in June 2014 Vintage Guitar Magazine, the 9.5lb has Better Tone. Yes I believe 9.5lb Les Paul is the perfect weight. As 7.5lb as Eric Johnson real 1962 Strat I have in my shop weight is...Many think light means Yaaa that's the one.. Not for Tone. You need mass/weight at right level! Gibson does not do the R9 right. Period! You can say oh, the pickups were not made by Gibson on this. Ok, go buy them Burstbucker SAME pickups in their R9, they are $149 street priced and in my book...SUCK. I always wondered why have a $6800 street price Gibson Les Paul, but have cheap same as anyone can get at discount music store pickups. You can read what ever you want online, I say it how I live it. Them Burstbuckers are not "hot" In my book the pickups are really minor in the tone. It's in the wood. I have taking a 100% 1963 Strat (that I parted out) and a Mexican 100% Strat, swapped out pickup assemblies. The 1963 STILL Rocked, the Mexican still sounded like crap. It freaked me out too!
