My 58 Standard

xJonnysixstring

terada said:

Stunning! Congrats

what were you playing through in the vid?

That’s through a Kemper Stage and Mission Wedge in the room, mainly Marshall Jubilee profiles, originally set up that rig for my Patrick Eggle Legend, have found this particular LP loves the Friedman profiles! Always use the Michael Britt profiles

johnl

Looks fantastic  - sure it's going to bring you many years of happiness. 

breakstuff

Wow, that is fantastic. Love Goldtops.

Congrats. 

impmann

Goldtop = cool 
Burst = trying too hard to be cool

Lovely guitar. Keep it away from those Burst fakers.

tone1

  

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p90fool said:

Lovely, nice to see one saved from the fakers! 

I love Gold Tops.

But if Jonny decided to refinish the guitar it would still be a 50's Les Paul built in Kalamazoo.

Surely we all understand what a  Fake Gibson Les Paul is?

A modded Gibson isn't a fake and Neil Young's Old Black isn't a fake.

xJonnysixstring

For me it’s more a case of people cashing in, which in honesty is complete greed. This is how the guitar left the factory, and on a guitar of this age I see it as history, removing that to make money on it is just wrong. Don’t get me wrong profit is not a dirty word, but the cost of doing that to a piece of history far outweighs the financial gain in my eyes

rlw

Works for me

Moominpapa

Super cool.

shugz

Beautiful Goldtop, dream guitar right there. Enjoy.

For me, if an oldie has been hacked up and generally tortured most of its days then anything to get it back playing in fine fettle is good. Anyone I suppose doing work like that will want to maximize income so a Burst it'll probably 9 times out of 10 be. I'd have no real issues with that.

I'd have serious issues in taking something like this guitar here and doing a sunburst just for the cash, that's not cricket.

Lovely guitar this one

Cheers
Hugh

Vibetronic

Not normally at all interested in vintage guitars-but that is very cool, congrats 

wesker123

Jesus  great score! 

mudslide73

Very lovely indeed. The sort of stuff dreams are made of.

stonevibe

That is rather tasty! 

tele69

That is just.. insane. Stunning. Love it.

xJonnysixstring

Thanks for comments guys, she is a lovely beast 

MattNovak

Great looking, honest guitar. Tell me you paid £50 for it from gumtree  

xJonnysixstring

MattNovak said:

Great looking, honest guitar. Tell me you paid £50 for it from gumtree  

If only that was the case, £350 on eBay

tony99

well I didn't expect to see that today

Adey

Jonnysixstring said:

MattNovak said:

Great looking, honest guitar. Tell me you paid £50 for it from gumtree  

If only that was the case, £350 on eBay

A small fib methinks!