FS FT - Gibson Les Paul Standard

richardhomer

If it is definitely a ‘74, it’s quite rare. The LP Standard with full sized HBs was only reintroduced in ‘76 - but was available as a special order prior.

bgmartinsbridge

Thanks Richard. Original imho. 

Pickup cavities original and untampered, so def not a messed up deluxe.
Serial number stamped and starts with a 1 and then the pots match up.
The pups are the correct patent numbers for the age and unsoldered to the vol pots. 

richardhomer

bgmartinsbridge said:

Thanks Richard. Original imho. 

Pickup cavities original and untampered, so def not a messed up deluxe.
Serial number stamped and starts with a 1 and then the pots match up.
The pups are the correct patent numbers for the age and unsoldered to the vol pots. 

I’m certainly not suggesting it’s been modified - you can tell from your photo they’re factory routes. I’d imagine they shipped very few special orders in the 70s, so a genuinely rare guitar.

SimpleSimon

@richardhomer ; - sshhhh!! we don't want the asking price to go up!

Seriously if this is a '74 i've always fancied a birth year guitar. What is the neck profile like on these? did they suffer from the   narrower nut widths like the SG's of the time? Does it also have the original case? Tuners are later schallers?

bgmartinsbridge

Haha. I wouldn't do that, honest :-) 

The neck is really comfy - I'd say it's wide but mid. Def not narrow and thin as with old 335s and def not fat, as per R8s etc.

Schaller tuners but could be changed back and none original black Gibson style hard case.

Brize

richardhomer said:

bgmartinsbridge said:

Thanks Richard. Original imho. 

Pickup cavities original and untampered, so def not a messed up deluxe.
Serial number stamped and starts with a 1 and then the pots match up.
The pups are the correct patent numbers for the age and unsoldered to the vol pots. 

I’m certainly not suggesting it’s been modified - you can tell from your photo they’re factory routes. I’d imagine they shipped very few special orders in the 70s, so a genuinely rare guitar.

Gibson shipped 28 Les Pauls with humbuckers in 1974.

bgmartinsbridge

Wow. That's the stat of the week Brize.
Where did you get such a fact? :-) 

bgmartinsbridge

So should I put the price up then? Lol

Brize

bgmartinsbridge said:

Wow. That's the stat of the week Brize.
Where did you get such a fact? :-) 

It's from memory, but I have it in the back of a book somewhere. I only remember the figure because I was looking at buying a '74 Les Paul with humbuckers at one point. They produced a lot more in '73, but still less than 200. From memory, some of these still went out with Deluxe on the truss-rod cover despite the humbuckers.

Brize

Some more info here:

http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?138683-1974-Les-Paul-Standard&p=1697347&viewfull=1#post1697347

Brize

Brize said:

richardhomer said:

bgmartinsbridge said:

Thanks Richard. Original imho. 

Pickup cavities original and untampered, so def not a messed up deluxe.
Serial number stamped and starts with a 1 and then the pots match up.
The pups are the correct patent numbers for the age and unsoldered to the vol pots. 

I’m certainly not suggesting it’s been modified - you can tell from your photo they’re factory routes. I’d imagine they shipped very few special orders in the 70s, so a genuinely rare guitar.

Gibson shipped 28 Les Pauls with humbuckers in 1974.

Actually, this stat may not be correct. These 28 guitars are actually Deluxes with humbucking pickups. The link above states that Gibson shipped 2,218 Les Paul Standards before the Standard was officially reintroduced in 1976. I guess that stat was gleaned from this book:

bgmartinsbridge

Thanks - really interesting.

Worth noting...

Wide binding in the cutaway - I noticed that on mine, as I'd never seen this before on a Les Paul.

Shallow angle neck and small volute. 

It's got the 3 piece pancake body. 

The one difference on mine is that it has a four piece top and not three piece. 

bgmartinsbridge

Strange that it was officially introduced in 1976, albeit with a different spec and build (which is what all the records online say too) but they only shipped 24 units in that year, before 5946 in 1978.

HarrySeven

*Lust*

However, gear rich and cash poor...

spark240

HarrySeven said:

*Lust*

However, gear rich and cash poor...

Just do it....I got that Axcess BTW....

bgmartinsbridge

The laugh for me, with this, is that it's priced cheaper than a lot of newish standards and 335s. 

bgmartinsbridge

Sunday morning bump

peteri

You mention microswitches. Any chance of a pic of the’damage’ from those?

sorry scratch that. Found them!

bgmartinsbridge

I've just bought a new guitar!!! 

bgmartinsbridge

Going to get put away..