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jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 389
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:57 pm:   Edit Post

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Les Paul Goldtops. I had to sell one about 15 years ago to pay off a $2000 phone bill I'd accumulated on my dad's card, calling my girlfriend from Greece.

Anyway, a buddy that I've done a bit of business with at Guitar Center told me about a dead mint 1957 Historic that some guy just sold. So I traded my Les Paul Standard and one of my Ric 330's for it. The neck is HUGE...like someone cut down a tree and put frets on it! It's a great guitar and I think a got a good deal.
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 390
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:59 pm:   Edit Post

Oh, here's a picture...
tom_z
Advanced Member
Username: tom_z

Post Number: 353
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 6:21 pm:   Edit Post

Wow - congratulations Jonathan!
She's a real beauty.
Enjoy!

Tom
zuperdog
Junior
Username: zuperdog

Post Number: 35
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:29 pm:   Edit Post

That's a great lookin' Paul, alright! I have a bit of a soft spot for 'em too, but can't bring myself to like that tree-trunk neck.
2400wattman
Intermediate Member
Username: 2400wattman

Post Number: 111
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:13 pm:   Edit Post

I would tend to think that that "huge neck" would facillitate a better point of balance and would lessen hand cramping on the gig. Also, I have been told by Paul nuts that a fatter neck means better tone, so rock on!
studiorecluse
Junior
Username: studiorecluse

Post Number: 26
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:34 pm:   Edit Post

Is that one of those VOS models?
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 391
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 9:32 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks guys.

Cary, not sure what you mean by VOS. It is, however, one of their Historic re-issues, though it's not Murphy aged or anything of the sort.
studiorecluse
Junior
Username: studiorecluse

Post Number: 27
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 6:41 am:   Edit Post

VOS is a new series of guitar that the Gibson Custom Shop started this year- stands for Vintage Original Spec. They go through unreal efforts to copy a vintage instrument. I played a VOS 59 Les Paul reissue and was more than blown away by it.
This is a beautiful instrument that you just bought, congrats and enjoy. And those big necks... ooh la la.
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 392
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 8:34 am:   Edit Post

Cary,

No, it's not a VOS. Just one of the Historic's.
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1853
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 10:29 am:   Edit Post

Very nice, Jon!
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 394
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 11:39 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Kevin. You know...I love my Alembics as much as the next guy. But there's still something about a Paul.
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 2375
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 11:47 am:   Edit Post

***snif*** thanks Jonathan ...I'm moved!

Paul (one of them)
foth
Member
Username: foth

Post Number: 89
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:01 pm:   Edit Post

I always liked gold tops, so much so that in 1973 I bought a left handed one and played it upside down. That trick didn't last very long! :-)
I looked at the '56 P-90 reissues, but stayed away because of the baseball bat necks. I ended up with a PRS McCarty soapbar instead. There's just something about gold tops though... nice acquisition Jonathan!
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 395
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post

This morning, I switched between the Goldtop and my Little Bear (which has the nicest, most comfortable neck dimensions I've come across). Without doing any precise measuring, the neck on the GT seemed almost twice as thick. My hands aren't huge and I definitely can't play as fast or as accurate on the GT.

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