Few Gibson deals inc Gibson Firebird Lyre Vibrola VS 2016

Teyeplayer

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

Be prepared to see bedroom sellers across the land listing them for £1200 next week. 

Babones

I'd be worried as to what would turn up though. The small photo doesn't inspire confidence. I bought one a few years back in the UK and it had to be sent back due to a poor fretboard and a bad nut. I really need to see good photos of the actual guitar, personally eg like Peach.

roberty

Babones said:

I'd be worried as to what would turn up though. The small photo doesn't inspire confidence. I bought one a few years back in the UK and it had to be sent back due to a poor fretboard and a bad nut. I really need to see good photos of the actual guitar, personally eg like Peach.

For that price you could easily factor in a new nut

Babones

roberty said:

Babones said:

I'd be worried as to what would turn up though. The small photo doesn't inspire confidence. I bought one a few years back in the UK and it had to be sent back due to a poor fretboard and a bad nut. I really need to see good photos of the actual guitar, personally eg like Peach.

For that price you could easily factor in a new nut

Sure, but not a crappy fretboard.

tony99

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

Iamnobody

Babones said:

roberty said:

Babones said:

I'd be worried as to what would turn up though. The small photo doesn't inspire confidence. I bought one a few years back in the UK and it had to be sent back due to a poor fretboard and a bad nut. I really need to see good photos of the actual guitar, personally eg like Peach.

For that price you could easily factor in a new nut

Sure, but not a crappy fretboard.

There’s 30 day returns if there’s anything substandard that you don’t want to accept.

badlydrawnbanjo

tony99 said:

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

They haven’t been available for quite a while. They were a supposed to be a limited run for the Japanese market in 2015. I’ve just looked up my invoice from guitar village when I bought one and it cost £1249 after a bit of haggling. This was at the release though, they dropped to around £999 after a bit if I remember right. 

tony99

badlydrawnbanjo said:

tony99 said:

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

They haven’t been available for quite a while. They were a supposed to be a limited run for the Japanese market in 2015. I’ve just looked up my invoice from guitar village when I bought one and it cost £1249 after a bit of haggling. This was at the release though, they dropped to around £999 after a bit if I remember right. 

wow that's quite a drop

Teyeplayer

tony99 said:

badlydrawnbanjo said:

tony99 said:

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

They haven’t been available for quite a while. They were a supposed to be a limited run for the Japanese market in 2015. I’ve just looked up my invoice from guitar village when I bought one and it cost £1249 after a bit of haggling. This was at the release though, they dropped to around £999 after a bit if I remember right. 

wow that's quite a drop

And have been back up to 11-1200 on the s/h market recently. It’s a huge drop.

What is great about these is they are already routed for p90s, so the 3 p90 mod would be easy. Also it would still be quite cost effective on one of these at £580. 

tony99

Teyeplayer said:

tony99 said:

badlydrawnbanjo said:

tony99 said:

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

They haven’t been available for quite a while. They were a supposed to be a limited run for the Japanese market in 2015. I’ve just looked up my invoice from guitar village when I bought one and it cost £1249 after a bit of haggling. This was at the release though, they dropped to around £999 after a bit if I remember right. 

wow that's quite a drop

And have been back up to 11-1200 on the s/h market recently. It’s a huge drop.

What is great about these is they are already routed for p90s, so the 3 p90 mod would be easy. Also it would still be quite cost effective on one of these at £580. 

which would you buy? pelham blue looks nice

piercelmno

I bit at the pelham blue....now someone buy my helix LT please ! haha

Teyeplayer

tony99 said:

Teyeplayer said:

tony99 said:

badlydrawnbanjo said:

tony99 said:

roberty said:

Those NR prices are nuts. Someone's going to have a good day

what price are they normally?

They haven’t been available for quite a while. They were a supposed to be a limited run for the Japanese market in 2015. I’ve just looked up my invoice from guitar village when I bought one and it cost £1249 after a bit of haggling. This was at the release though, they dropped to around £999 after a bit if I remember right. 

wow that's quite a drop

And have been back up to 11-1200 on the s/h market recently. It’s a huge drop.

What is great about these is they are already routed for p90s, so the 3 p90 mod would be easy. Also it would still be quite cost effective on one of these at £580. 

which would you buy? pelham blue looks nice

My number one is a black one of these, i’d go with Pelham blue or sunburst if I had the cash for a second.

Iamnobody

piercelmno said:

I bit at the pelham blue....now someone buy my helix LT please ! haha

Snap! No helix to sell though. Not sure what’s going to be sold to fund it...

Iamnobody

badlydrawnbanjo said:

Iamnobody said:

badlydrawnbanjo said:

The NR firebirds are crazy cheap. I’m sure I paid over a grand when they first came out

Have you still got it? If so may I ask...

Do these have skinny necks? I’ve been after a NR for a while now.

Cheers 

Thanks for putting up the link @paganskins ;;

I don’t, although I’m considering another one now! I think the neck was skinny, I swapped it with @lustycourtier for a Ric 330. I remember that the stock pickups were a bit meh

Cheers. Fingers crossed it suits me!

IntoTheRough

Why didn't I pull the trigger on one of these? I had the Lyre in my basked and decided to sleep on it - it went. Fine. Wasn't even sure I wanted one. Then thought well the pelham or sunbirst non-reversers are so cheap I couldn't be losing much on them if I bought.

By the time I'd faffed around anything decent had sold out. Expecting to see them on here in a few months!

stonevibe

I hear there will be more deals soon, when they let me know I'll publish another deal article. 

As I get sent any deals directly, then we share them via GearNews posts.

tony99

IntoTheRough said:

Why didn't I pull the trigger on one of these? I had the Lyre in my basked and decided to sleep on it - it went. Fine. Wasn't even sure I wanted one. Then thought well the pelham or sunbirst non-reversers are so cheap I couldn't be losing much on them if I bought.

By the time I'd faffed around anything decent had sold out. Expecting to see them on here in a few months!

they still have a non reverse in ebony

stickyfiddle

Trouble is I've just looked out of interest and seen this thing instead...

https://www.thomann.ae/gibson_lp_special_dc_firebird_cherry.htm

roberty

tony99 said:

IntoTheRough said:

Why didn't I pull the trigger on one of these? I had the Lyre in my basked and decided to sleep on it - it went. Fine. Wasn't even sure I wanted one. Then thought well the pelham or sunbirst non-reversers are so cheap I couldn't be losing much on them if I bought.

By the time I'd faffed around anything decent had sold out. Expecting to see them on here in a few months!

they still have a non reverse in ebony

Yep I was hovering over the sunburst and then the black once the burst was gone. Would be easy enough to flip for around the same price. But still it's quite a lot of effort once you've got it set up etc

@stonevibe please do that would be great

tony99

some of the studio lp's from 2016 are good prices too, especially with hard case included, alas I'm potless so good luck anyone who grabs one