Show your Custom!

[sub rosa]

Recent Custom Classic Antique. 68 Gold Top, 75 Deluxe

[Jimmy L]

Here is my 1978 LP Custom. I did add the Kahler in the 80's, live and learn. The guitar has a sweet neck.

[Ride on a Pony]

So far, it seems the greatest revelation of this thread is that Xavier_32 is actually the badass-looking guy in his avatar.

Just kidding, there's some awesome stuff here, thanks everyone!

[roko]

1978. i love it

[Deftone]

Originally Posted by Jimmy L

Here is my 1978 LP Custom. I did add the Kahler in the 80's, live and learn. The guitar has a sweet neck.

That whole set-up is F*cking awesome.

P.S. screw the purists....whammies are awesome.

[Deftone]

My "office" rig.

5watt tube Marshall Micro Stack
1989 Les Paul Studio Lite with Factory Floyd
1987 Les Paul Custom Lite (black)
1988 Les Paul Custom Lite (cherryburst-FOR SALE)
Dean ML Midnight Limited
NOT PICTURED (in my home theatre room upstairs) Krank Rev jr. Mini stack with V30 + G12H Celestions
Phaez 18 watt PTP Handwired tube head Avatar vert 2x12 with Webbers

[Deftone]

Here's one I'd like to have:

1989 Black LP Custom Lite with factory Floyd.

[Deftone]

Originally Posted by sub rosa

Recent Custom Classic Antique. 68 Gold Top, 75 Deluxe

Guitars, amps and records....

[kernelofwisdom]

[charpchevy]

Norlin Custom.


I can't imagine why anybody would want one of these.....

[Xavier_32]

So, opinion time. Now that I've decided to keep the black hardware on my Custom, and I've finally replaced all the rusted tiny gold hardware with new gold hardware, It's on to customization and making her my own. I've decided since I got her that her name was Norma Jeane, and that I would eventually get a TRC that says Norma Jeane in the Les Paul script, with CUSTOM in the small font underneath. Now I've come up with something else, but I don't know if it would be awesome, or tacky.

I stumbled upon Greasy Groove which is a site that makes custom engraved or painted parts. One of the things they do is put pin-up girls on pickguards. For an example, check out this pickguard. They can put any image you want on a pickguard, all they need is a pickguard tracing and the image you want at 300dpi for the size you want (roughly 1500x900 pixels for an LP pickguard.)

I was thinking of having pose #9 of a young Norma Jeane Baker from Tom Kelley's Red Velvet photoshoot put on a 3-layer b/w/b pickguard.


She would be placed horizontally across the length of the pickguard so that she's laying at the correct angle when I play standing up.

Does anyone think this would be kind of tacky looking on a CSB custom? My girlfriend thinks it would look good... on an Ebony Custom.

[your idol]

First time posting but from looking around i think im gonna like it here.
im a long time Gibson player but was on hiatus (lost in bass world)

heres my new birthday present to me
1981 Custom, the year of my birth. some guy had a Dimarzio in it but i already what a correct date and Ohm matched shaw in the works to bring her to 100% stock. my only complaint is it isnt Silverburst..that id kill for.






shes been well played but very well taken care of.

[Satch0922]

Originally Posted by fatbird

83 Custom

Here is his brother my 1983 LPC

[red2rider]

Here you Satch , here's it's close cousin

[red2rider]

and 2 more pics

[Satch0922]

sweet!

[Cookie-boy]

[moff40]

My FrankenPaul:



Likely late 80's or early '90s, the actual year of manufacture is unknown, as it was re-assembled from wood parts recovered from the factory dumpster. The body had been cut in half at the waist and the headstock cut off just above the nut. It has the wrong headstock (from a Standard) grafted on, which is tilted slightly to the right. Pickups are a Dimarzio Super D bridge and PAF Pro neck (push\pull volume pot for neck pickup coil split), hardware is Gibson stuff I had lying around, tuners are non-Gibson, aftermarket B/W/B pickguard. It's been both my #1 and my backup, and still gets gigged from time to time, but now spends most of its time on its hanger because I've been grooving on my Deluxes and Faded DC. It is stable, stays in tune, plays well, and sounds great, but looks like crap up close.

[johnnyk]

'74 on left, '76 on right

[Metlking]

Finally broke out my 78' Custom for a few gigs......

[your idol]

metlking...you kinda look like axl rose (pre plastic surgery disasters) and that is a DAMN fine guitar. i really love this thread

[Mr Insane]

aged white customs are pretty cool

[Mildperv]

Took some pics of my '07 Oxblod Custom after I finished putting a proper ABR-1 on it. Yes, I plugged and drilled for the ABR. Well worth the effort.

[Mildperv]

Damn, I'm the only idiot to post a non-Norlin Custom. Well, I do have one, it's a '77.

[veeman]

Forgiven.

[trymenow88]

My early 70s CSB - exact year TBD. Are the engraved pickup covers common during these years of production? I've seen a couple here, but not many.

[Xavier_32]

Originally Posted by trymenow88

My early 70s CSB - exact year TBD. Are the engraved pickup covers common during these years of production? I've seen a couple here, but not many.

Almost entirely exclusive to '72. There's a few '71s and '73s that have 'em, but you mostly see them on '72s. My dream guitar is a '72 CSB Custom with the embossed pickups.

Check the pots for a definite date.

[Pix]

Originally Posted by 05hummer

1979

me want wanna trade?

[SteveGangi]

[Ben McLean]

Here's a few pics of my lil ol' 74 Custom, butchered, beaten up, brought back from the dead.

Nice earthy tone, heavy as a bag of cement, sustains forever.

My trailer park trash guitar. This thing deserves a seat on the Springer show.

Yee ha,