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^^ really great example of what a difference a few months makes in 1960 Gibsons. The change to non-fading aniline dye, knobs, and the...

My Melody Maker came from the owner of these two bursts. One is a very early 1960, and the other was made a few months later. One of...

Keeping the original guard completely screwed to a piece of ply will at the very least keep the guard as flat as possible, and slow down...

Again, there's no way to keep the original safe. Taken off and screwed to a piece of wood will not prevent it from continuing to shrink...

And never play in tune again!

Nobody is stripping original sunburst finish to do a refin custom color these days, it just doesn’t happen. Even aside from the fact...

In the 70's, natural finishes were very popular. A lot of players stripped the finish and either left it unfinished or did a home made...

Do you honestly think the original finish was stripped for this latest refin? I think we’d all prefer the original finish, but that...

Two iconic neck profiles rendered poorly on a contour gauge: A 1953 Telecaster on the left (May '53), and a 1956 Stratocaster (indeed, a...

I actually agree, the Lyre "Gibson Deluxe" vibrola is my favorite setup on these. A stoptail doesn't necessarily improve playability...

It doesn't, and the sound becomes less interesting with the stop tail as well. Just a bad idea all the way around.

It's a shame that so many of these guitars were modified for a stop tailpiece, it always looks wrong to me on a vintage SG (yes, even if...

On the whole I think this thread is pretty civil and measured, as these go! I’ll throw my hands up and say I have almost zero...

With respect, a sample set of one tells you nothing. Here's an example of why. These two Dec '58 guitars have consecutive FON (so...

Today I learned that thinking a vintage guitar is amazing is just a giant Boomer pump and dump.