SOLD: Gibson L6-S Custom 1973 Black

parker_knoll

£899
Elephant & Castle, London

Beautiful first year L6S with ebony fretboard and black finish. One of those '70s models that didn't take on with Les Paul fans but has subsequently found traction with a new generation of players.


-All original
-All maple body
-24 fret ebony fingerboard
-Thin nitro finish
-Rotomatic tuners
-Six way varitone selector: N&B series in phase, neck, N&B parallel in phase, N&B parallel out of phase with tone cap (makes it less quacky), Bridge, N&B series out of phase with tone cap

You can read lots more about these online including lots of old Boomers who hated them in 1973. It's a bright snappy guitar due to the all maple construction, very versatile, super low action and fast player. The Bill Lawrence "Superhumbucker" pickups are low wind high magnet meaning they have a high output without being overly middy.

Here's Bill Lawrence on the thinking behind the design: http://www.billlawrence.com/Pages/L6S.htm

Everything works, holds tuning really well, superfast player. The only downside, no original case. Perfect fitting Gibson gigbag provided which has worked well.

I will ship EU wide but collection preferred.

GJK1959

Nice - I thought I saw Ron Wood playing one at one time 

Funkfingers

Interesting. 

The inevitable question is going to be, how much does it weigh?

RearWing

Billy Bremner played one of these in Rockpile.

parker_knoll

Funkfingers said:

Interesting. 

The inevitable question is going to be, how much does it weigh?

do you actually want an answer to that?

parker_knoll

GJK1959 said:

Nice - I thought I saw Ron Wood playing one at one time 

both Keef and Ron played one. Santana was an endorser, along with John McLaughlin and Al Dimeola. I guess they kind of pushed it at jazz proggers

parker_knoll

£50 price drop. It's a bargain. Come and test it. 

parker_knoll

Price drop