Does this seem right?

[Deadletteroffice]

What did he say? He stated in his ad he called Gibson and they said it was real, lol.

Not much. He just said since it's a question mark he will pull the guitar, but if I was interested in the guitar as is to let him know.

Doesn't that look like a 80's head stock logo? I just can't recall the Gibson custom shop in the mid 80's making Tom Murphy R9's with 80's head stock logos. Haha

 

[THDNUT]

I thought the logo looked like an 80s logo too.

 

[ARandall]

^ Plus wrong style and position TRC for a RI, and wrong script location for a RI too.
Maybe preproduction type reissue......with real aging. The weight would be right for that era.

 

[Blue Blood]

Had the seller pulled out the neck pickup ?
See what tenon is hiding under there...

 

[jamman]

Ad pulled , so I couldn't take a look . But I'd trust Marks opinion/Eval .

To much knowledge is not always a good thing ..when you can have
Plausible deny-ability ,
As your friend

 

[Deadletteroffice]

Ad pulled , so I couldn't take a look . But I'd trust Marks opinion/Eval .

To much knowledge is not always a good thing ..when you can have
Plausible deny-ability ,
As your friend

The ad is "ended" but still there to see. https://reverb.com/item/11943911-tom-murphy-relic-gibson-custom-shop-r9-1959-les-paul-reissue

 

[Jabberwocky]

Northern Lights Music are good people. BUT they're steel string acoustic guitar specialists. Solid-bodies are not their bag. They are trusting folk and it is very likely they got taken by some less than honest customer who traded them a whole lot of hooey for one of their acoustic guitars like a Santa Cruz, Collings or Froggy Bottom.

 

[Deadletteroffice]

Update on this thread. I had wrote him and suggested that his guitar looked similar to this guitar for era, early 80's. Same Gibson logo and Les Paul sig placement.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...eritage-80-1959-ri-les-paul-standard.1931272/

He thanked me for the info. He said he was trying to gather enough info to list it correctly. He then wrote back today and said:

"Thanks for your information. In the end we listed the guitar as the 1982 that it really is and it sold in about twenty minutes. FYI, Additional advice and information that we received on it included:

- The guitar appears to have originally been one of the "Kalamazoo Reissue" instruments (1979-1982).
- The die-stamped number on the edge of the control cavity rout (83412027), indicates it was stamped at the mid-point of production on December 7th, 1982. The ink-stamped serial number on the peghead rear is also consistent with Kalamazoo factory practice on these guitars
- The one CTS potentiometer (137 8232) is probably original to the guitar.

Thanks, Dan"

All's well that ends well. At least somebody uninformed didn't buy what they thought was a Murphy aged R9. The guy seemed very nice and my guess is that he took it in on bad information. Hopefully it was a consignment and he didn't outright buy it thinking it was a Murphy. I don't know what he got for it in the end. He didn't say and I don't want to ask.