1964 Les Paul Custom?!

TateTheGreat · 08-11-2012, 09:19 AM

This guy is wrong I think. I told him it might be a 1974 and he acted like a jerk. Did they make these in '64, I thought no way in hell.. I know Gibson messed with serial numbers ect.

Les Paul Custom Gibson 1964

captain tightpants · 08-11-2012, 09:25 AM

Yeah, he's either an idiot or he's a liar. That's a '70's Custom without a doubt.

TateTheGreat · 08-11-2012, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by captain tightpants

Yeah, he's either an idiot or he's a liar. That's a '70's Custom without a doubt.

Thank you, thought I was losing my mind haha. I was polite about it. Told him they were SG style and he told me togo F myself and that I was wrong. So I told him to have a nice day, and hung up haha.

retrobob · 08-11-2012, 09:57 AM

That guy might want to study up on Les Pauls.
Its common knowledge that that particular LP body style was discontinued in 1960, and not made again until 1968.

At least he was very polite about it.

LPPILOT · 08-11-2012, 11:43 AM

wow....wtf? ...that one is not even up for debate.

maplehead872 · 08-12-2012, 06:43 PM

Some '61' single cut bodies are known to exist, as far as Les Paul customs go.
1953-1961.

captain tightpants · 08-12-2012, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LPPILOT

wow....wtf? ...that one is not even up for debate.

You would be surprised. There was a guy on some forum, I forget which (maybe Zakk Wylde's?) who had a Norlin Deluxe he SWORE was a 1964 Les Paul. Claimed it was a custom order or some phucking thing. Dude could play, and he wasn't a complete idiot about guitars, but he was dead sure his Norlin was a '64.

Damned thing had a pancake body and a maple neck, everyone tried to tell him it was a hallmark of '70's Lesters but he wouldn't hear any of it. Far as he was concerned it was a '64 and that was that

Guess it made the Soapbar EMG's he had in it sound better if it was a '64

Why is '64 such a popular year for phucktards to make wild claims about their guitars, anyways?

LPPILOT · 08-13-2012, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by captain tightpants

You would be surprised. There was a guy on some forum, I forget which (maybe Zakk Wylde's?) who had a Norlin Deluxe he SWORE was a 1964 Les Paul. Claimed it was a custom order or some phucking thing. Dude could play, and he wasn't a complete idiot about guitars, but he was dead sure his Norlin was a '64.

Damned thing had a pancake body and a maple neck, everyone tried to tell him it was a hallmark of '70's Lesters but he wouldn't hear any of it. Far as he was concerned it was a '64 and that was that

Guess it made the Soapbar EMG's he had in it sound better if it was a '64

Why is '64 such a popular year for phucktards to make wild claims about their guitars, anyways?

oh yeah !!!...ok....I know that guy ...he must be same one who found the 1963 split window fuel injected Corvette Coupe in a barn his uncle left that never returned from Vietnam.

dwagar · 08-13-2012, 11:29 AM

that's the problem Gibson caused by repeating their serial numbers.

chillman · 08-15-2012, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LPPILOT

oh yeah !!!...ok....I know that guy ...he must be same one who found the 1963 split window fuel injected Corvette Coupe in a barn his uncle left that never returned from Vietnam.

That is my dream. Oh there's also a '59 Lester in that barn.

jon dano · 08-15-2012, 03:24 PM

woah small world, I just posted about this

Greg's Guitars · 08-15-2012, 03:30 PM

1970 or 1974 by the serial number, and made in USA stamp...Oh yea the waffle backs are dead giveaways as well...

SKATTERBRANE · 08-15-2012, 03:36 PM

It is also a 1964 SN. And most dreamers go for the oldest possible, not knowing there are no 1964-1967 Les Pauls.

LPPILOT · 08-15-2012, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by chillman

That is my dream. Oh there's also a '59 Lester in that barn.

Yes of course, the 59 flametop LP was in the Stingrays front pass seat.

csplayer089 · 08-15-2012, 04:41 PM

Uhh...yeah no argument about this one, as another user said. Dude's a prick if he has the balls to tell someone to f**k off after calling him out on an incorrect advertisement.

We should flag his post into the abyss.

Electric Funeral · 08-15-2012, 04:54 PM

It's still a really good deal on a '74....

if I had the scratch I go buy it from it, and as I was leaving say "Thanks again for the sweet '74 Custom man. Glad I'm taking it to a home where the owner isn't a prick and knows his LP's"

SJJMcGhee · 08-15-2012, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by chillman

That is my dream. Oh there's also a '59 Lester in that barn.

Don'tcha just love Barns

tonebone · 08-15-2012, 05:29 PM

I'd settle for a Gretsch White Falcon in a 59 Cad convertable on steel supports ... no mice that way.

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