#1465290 - 11/15/04 07:06 PM
Re: BOUGHT something very old. Check this
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as Ms Shannon would say: Happy dance, Happy Dance! Great to see a treasure such as this join our virtual 6 string family 
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#1465291 - 11/16/04 12:55 AM
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That's great, Mr. Shoes! I'm glad for ya! As you and I live sorta kinda almost not all that really far away from one another (most Guitar Forummites liev further away from me than you do), perhaps one fine day's night we'll get to jam a little, and you can (if you're so kind and so inclined) let me have a respectful look at the ol' paddle. Maybe by then I'll have been able to get the ol' '52 that I've been mentioning here, as well! That'd be cool... then we'd have to go meet Lee and we'd be in our own friendly little club, the MP Guitar Forum members with '52 Les Pauls Club! Hmmmnn... there's gotta be some N.A.F.TA. incentive-provision for that... 
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#1465292 - 11/16/04 01:27 AM
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That sounds like good idea for a song....
We do need a geographic breakdown (which is a good idea for a bluegrass song) of where the hell any of us lives.
Hmmm smell a thread starting here.
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#1465293 - 11/16/04 02:38 AM
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Hey, Guitars-are-like-shoes, any answers to my questions in the PM?? Or am I going to have to visit my buddies at Gibby Customer Support?? I know this is far from a done deal, but I'm interested who they suggested you speak to at Valley Arts, more than anything else.
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#1465294 - 11/16/04 02:41 PM
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Hey Shoes, have you bought this yet?  Go for it!  Like my boss (he's a motorcycle nut and we swap stories about each other's obsessions) said, "You can't play a car."
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#1465296 - 11/17/04 12:53 AM
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I figured I had no way to "redirect" the amount of cash required to close this deal without Mrs. Shoes catching wind of it. So tonight I came clean and she had a few choice words for me... verbal abuse ha... I'm a man! I have selective hearing Anyhow... I'm heading out after work to pick it up and then it's off to Toronto a for business trip which will include a stop at the Twelfth Fret to have them give it a once over with the proverbial fine tooth comb. (that's from the Cole's Notes version of the Bible) Given my shoe drawer looks like this...  Little chance I'll modify the thing and Valley Arts have given me a rough quote on a customized vintage restore finish and it was less than I expected. I HADN'T BETTER FIND ANY UNFORESEEN ISSUES WHEN I GO TO PICK IT UP! If you know what I mean.. Too much time, thinking, negotiating and wife abuse to have this go to shit on me.
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#1465298 - 11/17/04 01:46 AM
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Bestaluck,'shoes'!
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#1465301 - 11/17/04 08:48 AM
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Originally posted by Guitarzan:
..i don't want a Les Paul
i don't want a Les Paul
i don't want a Les paul
i..don't want....a...Les Paul
i...don't......must...have...........a Les paul.....
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Oh, 'zan, effectively, you've already got one there in that cool Godin! Don't let external validification become a G.A.$.-y monkey on yer back! I love mine, but, truthfully, I might have been better off buying a PRS McCarty, or a Hamer, or one of those new Yamahas. It's not the brand 'n' model 'n' year, it's the fit between a specific guitar and player.
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#1465304 - 11/17/04 12:20 PM
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Originally posted by Lee Flier: Awesome shoes, and welcome to the '52 club!  Maybe once yours gets all dressed up, our LP's can go out on a date. ooppps... Lee's picking out those monogramed towels I mentioned earlier.... Bill
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#1465305 - 11/17/04 03:10 PM
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 It'll be the 'feel-good romantic-comedy chick-flick of the season'! "When 'Goldy'  met 'Woody'" 
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If I owned a '52 with the "trapeze", and a friend of mine does (bought it brand-new!), I'd consider having the neck re-set to correct the original problem, and enjoy the Hell out of that beautiful tone and less common compliment of hardware!
But I'd more likely try to come up with an alternate bridge/tail design that would address these issues while sounding similar, and still leave the guitar as unchanged as possible.
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