Thoughts on this conversion

[Zoso#1]

https://reverb.com/uk/item/32673768-gibson-les-paul-standard-dick-knight-conversion-1970s?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxL7GitDi6AIVFeDtCh2r0wOpEAQYAiABEgIHMvD_BwE&merchant_id=182100200&pla=1&utm_campaign=1726164661&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google

 

[LPaddicted]

überpriced as heck

 

[mdubya]

Commission a documented replica.

A claimed vintage guitar with zero provenance is fool's gold, IMHO.

 

[mdubya]

Or buy a documented Special or Junior.

I hear Waldstein is still available.

 

[VictorB]

Stay far away from this one...

 

[ESchmidt]

You could get a lot better replica these days with thousands left over for that price. Like others have said—stay away.

 

[LocoTex]

The guy who wrote the description could use a dictionary and a proofreader.

 

[Merkin]

The odd thing is that the chap who has written the description - presumably the seller - seems to think that the conversion was a cowboy job too. Bizarre, really. If he/she doesn't believe in it...

 

[Deftone]

I like it. I'm in at $750.

 

[judson]

i like the guitar but the price with sketchy backstory kills the value for me...

but maybe i am not schooled enough to know what i am looking at

didnt know who Dick Knight was/is but why not ask Gordon Wells to add his two cents if he remembers this one

Knight Guitars - Dick Knight Guitars Where it all began

Stanley (Dick) Charles Knight was born 22nd March 1907. Dick started as an amateur player and began to get proficient on the banjo and clarinet while working as a machinist. One day there was a freak accident and he severed part of every finger on his left hand. So...

www.knight-guitars.com

 

[VictorB]

Way too much speculation in that description to warrant a $11k price tag.

 

[RufusTelestrat]

For 11k I would expect more than 12 bad non illustrative photos and a sketchy description of nothing.

 

[lpfan1980]

Beautiful WAYYY TO MUCH CASH!

 

[RAG7890]

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[Uncle Vinnie]

überpriced as heck

I wouldn't pay $11k even WITH original PAFs.

 

[judson]

The odd thing is that the chap who has written the description - presumably the seller - seems to think that the conversion was a cowboy job too. Bizarre, really. If he/she doesn't believe in it...

yeah i re-read his description a few times and i agree...sound like he is implying its a replica DK conversion and thats it, nothing more or less

as a " sibling of the husk reference that was mistakenly sold as a real 59"....

so its an overpriced relic ....what did it start out as...a tree?

 

[mdubya]

....what did it start out as...a tree?

I would question even that with this one.

 

[ARandall]

Jesus, the spin in that ad

I mean, essentially what he is saying is that practically nothing is original.......to whatever it was in the first place. And even then its hard to know what that was. There are references to 70's Les pauls with the neck, but with no ser# or correct logo (or even construction) that is a wholly ignorant guess, and wrong anyhow.

Then somehow we have the 'period correct humbucker rings from a 60's goldtop'
There were never humbuckers in goldtops in the (late) 60's

This is a $500 guitar.