Postby Jeff » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:08 am
weim, will do, have my custom sitting right next to me. The Standard is a different story, after getting completely lucky finding it in the paper about ten years ago for $1500, and then once purchasing it and finding out it's true value, I keep it locked up in a seperate location from me and play it about every couple of months. I originally started playing because I really liked Jimmy Page, and he is still one of my favorite players (even though there are better skilled out there). So I wanted an old standard, simmilar to what he played, this was supposed to be a '69 standard. Well I got there and saw the serial number was split in the back and immediatley new it was older than what he said, then looked at the back of the volume and tone pots and saw the date on them and crapped my pants. I offered him $1200, bought it and then went straight to a vintage guitar place in New Orleans to see if what I thought I had I had. They then offered me $30K for it on the spot, said no way. I'll try and dig up a picture of it lying around here. I LOVE Les Pauls, I really like the tone on them and feel you can play a mean slide on them.