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makeitstop12/30/2017 10:53:01 am PST

re: #224 nines09

You’ll get a kick out of this. 1969 Les Paul Custom. I bought it around 1975 from a guy who bought it off an imbecile who hacked off the back binding trying to make it look like an earlier model. A few years later I had a friend who did woodworking do this for me. I sold it a few years back. that is the back of a 1969 LPC.

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Dude. That’s just wrong. I’ll bet it played pretty nicely, despite the mangling.

A guy on the TDPRI Tele forum posted a ‘68 Tele that someone did the same thing to - took a belt sander and made his own ‘contours.’ His luthier actually cut away the contours and grafted on new wood and was able to get it back into (literally) original shape.

But I can understand it, I guess. Back before the vintage market really took off, they were just ‘old guitars’ that you could buy for nothing. I had a ‘61 Strat that I did horrible things to - I actually took a hammer and chisel to it to fit a humbucker in.

I wish I had that Strat. Not a single Strat neck I’ve played since that one has even come close.