Thread: 53/57 Goldtop
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Old 11-07-2009, 11:11 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: 53/57 Goldtop

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Originally Posted by diceman View Post
A '57 would have had Humbuckers (except for the early ones?) - but it would definitely had a stop tail regardless of when it was built in '57 (99% of the time) - which makes me think it is a '53.

That said, my luthier has a stock '56 GT which has a trapeze on it - from the factory. It is a strange duck. This COULD have been another like that.

If the above was a "conversion," though - it would have had stop tail studs. And, the low bridge height wrapped under implies a shallow neck angle to me as well.

I'd still take it, though!
I hoped you'd all realise I was kidding about the early 57' P90 being converted to 53' trap? I think that someone put a 57' serial# on it, people do the strangest things when they're " HIGH ".
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