Memphis Les Paul......

[Paragon]

What year is it?
Never seen on with that switch location.....
Very cool.
Thanks to dspelman i found an Ibanez forum with some insight!!

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/norlin-years/42172-1979-porn.html#post774598

 

[QuicksilverSS]

When i got my Memphis,i was taking my 1st lessons at a mall music store.My Grandma was paying. She paid $5 foe an acoustic rental /week and $6 for the lesson/week.
The rental receipts went towards a purchase of a new guitar from their store...
Had only a handful of lessons and my teacher moved away...told me about another dude..after a few lesson he went to Vegas...I said screw it and taught myself with a litte help from some friends and here i am 30 years later and still suck!!

 

[Paragon]

It's a bolt neck, not a set neck. The veneer hides the screws, and the screws are very much what hold the neck on (you don't need screws to hold on the neck while the glue dries)..

Whatever it is.. it is a very stable neck joint.

 

[Mike's_LP]

It's a bolt neck, not a set neck. The veneer hides the screws, and the screws are very much what hold the neck on (you don't need screws to hold on the neck while the glue dries). You can get more information on that from the ibanez collector's forum as well.

I think the real set necks start with the 300 series (you guys have 100 and 200 series) and the 400 series is actually a very good Les Paul copy (the Ibanez version is the PF400, I think), with solid bodies and no plywood, but difficult to find.

My favorite ultra fancy Les Paul clone, by the way, is the Ibanez Custom Agent (2506, I think, is the model number), which has the F5 Mandolin headstock with the curlicue, a huge inlay on the area between the bridge and the bottom of the guitar, and some really nice inlays in the fretboard. The pickguards on these are difficult to find (most were taken off), but are very curly and highly ornate. If you can find one with the pickguard intact and the curlicue on the headstock NOT broken off at some point in its history, you've got a keeper.

I see the indentations for the screws/holes, but I don't see a veneer. I can see all the pieces on the sides, ( front, back & all the pieces on each) but unless they attached the neck before the back of the body, I don't see how they would've bolted it on. I always took them as "tooling marks" in case it did wind up as a bolt-on. I'll take out the neck pup when I take the pics.
Speaking of pups, I have the same rail 7/8ths-size 'bucker as that other guy's, with the chrome-plastic ring- except mine's cream colored. The bridge has some other unmarked pup with really wide spacing. I have the same brass dots as him, too.

 

[dspelman]

I see the indentations for the screws/holes, but I don't see a veneer. I can see all the pieces on the sides, ( front, back & all the pieces on each) but unless they attached the neck before the back of the body, I don't see how they would've bolted it on. I always took them as "tooling marks" in case it did wind up as a bolt-on. I'll take out the neck pup when I take the pics.
Speaking of pups, I have the same rail 7/8ths-size 'bucker as that other guy's, with the chrome-plastic ring- except mine's cream colored. The bridge has some other unmarked pup with really wide spacing. I have the same brass dots as him, too.

Interesting. I've gotta admit I haven't paid all THAT much attention to these; there are guys over at the IC Forum that can probably tell you within a toothpick splinter anything you need to know about them, so I'll refer you to them. Some of these that I've seen have been really nice guitars, some sort of cheap dreck, so it seems there's a pretty good range of opportunities with them <G>.

 

[grimlyflick]

FYI.........Slash's 1st Les Paul was a Memphis.

Along time before his G'n'R days though.

 

[QuicksilverSS]

FYI.........Slash's 1st Les Paul was a Memphis.

Along time before his G'n'R days though.

I remember reading that!