HNGD!! Gibson R9 Lemon Drop VOS

[MuLLe]

Hello all
A story about The lost beauty that was forgotten in the stores back, hidden and packed with my name on it high up in their storage.

This is a 60th Anniversary 1960 Lemon Drop.
It has been a crazy ride to get this guitar. When I saw it, I made a deal with the store and all was done but...
The summer 2021 I saw this guitar and three other R9 in Dirty Lemon. I had a longer email conversation with the store and they made demo videos and instantly this called my name. The deal was set and I was going to pay the next following day. Then things went downwards, a bad situation happened in my family.
A couple of months later it was better. I checked the store and ofcourse it was gone.

2022 I checked the store again for something else but nothing that caught my eyes. I still had this guitar in my mind, I have had it the whole time, it has been haunted me hehe.

A few weeks back I got the 2008 Custom Shop Slash 87 Jessica Slash inspired by. An insane muscle machine. I was so happy for it becasue it has been on my bucket list. In the end, it felt more like a tribute guitar, a collector item and I wasnt that drawn to play it. So I checked the store again and nothing that caught my attention. The day after I checked again and then :O... WTF!!! The guitar was online at the store, the one I was going to buy back in 2021. I instantly wrote to him and we talked.
I asked did somebody sell it back to you?
No, hahaha... With everything going on with Covid back then, stressful situations it was forgotten. It was packed and ready for you. We waited on you and meanwhile we put it in the back, it had your name with your reservation on it. Somehow, it was stacked high up on a shelf in our storage. Then new guitars arrived and we simply forgot this guitar and it has been hidden this whole time in our storage. We saw it yesterday, unpacked it and put it up again. So this is still brand new and of course unplayed.

So I made a deal with him, a trade.

Im super happy. This is my keeper. It has everything, perfect weight for me, plays like butter and it sounds so amazingly good.

Im bombing you with some pictures, photos in sunlight, photos in ordinary clouded day light and photos in the evening with damped evening light.

Sunlight:

Clouded indoor light:

Evening damped backround light:

 

[Brek]

Spectacular! hngd.

 

[searswashere]

Wild story, gorgeous guitar, happy owner. Love it.

 

[pondcaster]

Nice LP!

 

[hotshot]

WOW, for the story and the guitar !! HNGD !

 

[Knoby]

Wow... Gorgeous guitar and a cool story. Destiny?

Maybe thats what you should call it.

 

[1allspub]

Cool story. Yeah, gotta name this one Destiny!

She’s sure a looker! Congrats and HNGD!

 

[Midnight Blues]

Nice! Congrats, HNGD and play her in good health!

 

[DanD]

I so love a happy ending….

Nice axe btw! Congrats!!!

 

[Central Scrutinizer]

It was meant to be !

Stunning guitar!

Enjoy the heck out of it.

 

[danzego]

Nice looking guitar!

I’m curious, though- if it had your name and a reservation on it, why didn’t they call you when they found it rather than putting it back into stock? That seems lame.

 

[Rds]

That’s a great looking guitar. Congrats.

 

[MuLLe]

Nice looking guitar!

I’m curious, though- if it had your name and a reservation on it, why didn’t they call you when they found it rather than putting it back into stock? That seems lame.

Well it was 1,5 years later

 

[mjross]

Very nice, one of my favorite Les Paul colors, congrats! I love happy endings…lol.

 

[NightShift88]

That’s stunning and great story, congrats!

 

[danzego]

Well it was 1,5 years later

Yeah, but the TC did say that when things got better and he went to get the guitar, it was gone. He must have known that through talking to the people that worked there. After they found out that the guitar was, in fact, at the store, lost amongst a bunch of other stock, and assuming his name was on it (since it was, after all, put aside for him), the obvious move would have been to call the person and see if they’re still interested. Maybe even a slight discount for the trouble if they really want to show off their customer service (it’s not like the profit margin on RI’s is razor thin).

Maybe I’m missing something or making an assumption that something occurred which didn’t, but I think any salesman worth their salt would have made the one minute call to check. Or, maybe it’s a Guitar Center, which would easily explain any lack of customer care. All TC would have had to mention was “GC” and most people would have thought, “ah yes, of course.”

 

[AJK1]

Sounds like a story to me

 

[MuLLe]

Yeah, but the TC did say that when things got better and he went to get the guitar, it was gone. He must have known that through talking to the people that worked there. After they found out that the guitar was, in fact, at the store, lost amongst a bunch of other stock, and assuming his name was on it (since it was, after all, put aside for him), the obvious move would have been to call the person and see if they’re still interested. Maybe even a slight discount for the trouble if they really want to show off their customer service (it’s not like the profit margin on RI’s is razor thin).

Maybe I’m missing something or making an assumption that something occurred which didn’t, but I think any salesman worth their salt would have made the one minute call to check. Or, maybe it’s a Guitar Center, which would easily explain any lack of customer care. All TC would have had to mention was “GC” and most people would have thought, “ah yes, of course.”

It’s a 15 hours drive crossing three countries so I wasn’t visiting them. It was online .

So when I checked the web a couple of months later it was gone on their site.

The discount part for me isn’t necessary. They didn’t do anything wrong, in fact for my part, they did the right thing of forgetting it/misplacing it