73-74 Custom?

[tazzboy]

Yeah I contacted the seller and he couldn't tell me all the numbers on the CTS Pots cause of the soldering. All he gave me was 13774.

 

[DarrellV]

Maybe I've been hanging around with you guys long enough that I'm starting to see things (???)

Is that first position marker cracked and maybe even re-glued?

There is a pretty clear line in both pics. Or can the material separate on its own sometimes?

 

[chasenblues]

Is that first position marker cracked and maybe even re-glued?

There is a pretty clear line in both pics. Or can the material separate on its own sometimes?

 

[capnjim]

Does it even matter with the ridiculous asking price???

 

[Cookie-boy]

Nice job....ish on the finish, but not what you should find when you dismantle an original '73 or '74 white Custom.

 

[Oranjeaap]

Refin

 

[69 Goldtop]

Yeah I contacted the seller and he couldn't tell me all the numbers on the CTS Pots cause of the soldering. All he gave me was 13774.

Those are not original.

 

[69 Goldtop]

Does it even matter with the ridiculous asking price???

Kinda went w/o saying. But hopefully my intention was
that no one here that pays attention, get burned.
Clean CC and a refin. I missed completely right away.
Good job!!!

 

[bblooz]

Does it even matter with the ridiculous asking price???

+1

Interesting and educational, but probably a sub-$2000 LPC, at best. You never know - some shmuck might actually buy it on the fleabay.

Caveat Emptor!

 

[Cookie-boy]

74/75..The last years of the waffle backs?

And that colour is waaaaayyyyyy too rich! It almost out-tv-yellows a '59 TV Yellow!!!

 

[Kris Ford]

And that colour is waaaaayyyyyy too rich! It almost out-tv-yellows a '59 TV Yellow!!!

Wafflebacks are most likely repros as well..NO way it could get that yellow and be that gold still..compared to the wear on other gold parts.

 

[kakerlak]

Wafflebacks are most likely repros as well..NO way it could get that yellow and be that gold still..compared to the wear on other gold parts.

I don't know... There's some wear and pitting on the buttons and there's not a ton of wear on the bridge and pickup covers. I think that tailpiece has more corrosive/delaminating type wear on it. IF you take this guitar as 100% original, there's not a lot of wear on it (often the white-to-yellow color variation is partly due to worn-through yellowed clearcoat). All that having been said, the lack of color difference in the cavities doesn't sit right with me. You can't see any outline of the pickup rings in the photos with them off the guitar -- there's no apparent indentation in the finish, zero color difference, etc. That's a spot where something is directly masking the finish at all times, mounted firmly up against it. The only way I could see that all-over yellowing happening is if somebody stripped all the hardware off this guitar and then had it sitting disassembled for several years.

 

[Kris Ford]

I don't know... There's some wear and pitting on the buttons and there's not a ton of wear on the bridge and pickup covers. I think that tailpiece has more corrosive/delaminating type wear on it. IF you take this guitar as 100% original, there's not a lot of wear on it (often the white-to-yellow color variation is partly due to worn-through yellowed clearcoat). All that having been said, the lack of color difference in the cavities doesn't sit right with me. You can't see any outline of the pickup rings in the photos with them off the guitar -- there's no apparent indentation in the finish, zero color difference, etc. That's a spot where something is directly masking the finish at all times, mounted firmly up against it. The only way I could see that all-over yellowing happening is if somebody stripped all the hardware off this guitar and then had it sitting disassembled for several years.

I feel ya, but at this point,I have doubts that the hardware and the guitar left Gibson at the same time...

 

[chasenblues]

And that colour is waaaaayyyyyy too rich! It almost out-tv-yellows a '59 TV Yellow!!!

For the sake of honesty, I darkened that 1 image trying to see if it had the Made in the USA stamp on the headstock.

 

[Cookie-boy]

Deceiver!!!!

 

[69 Goldtop]

price drop. another 4 grand and they are close.