james
Well-known member
Hi Peter,
The LR is the same black one that Lee posted about a while ago. From the serial number its an 81. Looks to be all original, although theres some doubt over the pickups - double cream coils, something like 'PAF made by goto' on the base. They've got two rows of adjustable pole pieces instead of one, but do match the surrounds for colour perfectly. Who knows? They're quite beefy and I had to back them away from the strings a bit.
As to the rest: Deluxe stamped tuners (the ones on my ES100J from the same year say TOKAI), diamond trussrod cover, neck is one piece, back is 3 pieces but the top is definitly 2 pieces. Seems like they didn't always use 3 for the solid colour models. I recently read in the 'Beauty of the Burst' book that even 50s Goldtops had tops of 3 random width pieces and the change to 2 only came with the move to sunburst (interesting eh Lee :wink: ).
Its got an old style trussrod as well - not an allen key job but with a nut on the top. Do all the old Gibson copies have those (haven't check my ES100J)? Do the recent Tokais have that? Might be authentic but its damned inconvenient as I haven't got anything to adjsut it with and it needs a tweek....
The LR is the same black one that Lee posted about a while ago. From the serial number its an 81. Looks to be all original, although theres some doubt over the pickups - double cream coils, something like 'PAF made by goto' on the base. They've got two rows of adjustable pole pieces instead of one, but do match the surrounds for colour perfectly. Who knows? They're quite beefy and I had to back them away from the strings a bit.
As to the rest: Deluxe stamped tuners (the ones on my ES100J from the same year say TOKAI), diamond trussrod cover, neck is one piece, back is 3 pieces but the top is definitly 2 pieces. Seems like they didn't always use 3 for the solid colour models. I recently read in the 'Beauty of the Burst' book that even 50s Goldtops had tops of 3 random width pieces and the change to 2 only came with the move to sunburst (interesting eh Lee :wink: ).
Its got an old style trussrod as well - not an allen key job but with a nut on the top. Do all the old Gibson copies have those (haven't check my ES100J)? Do the recent Tokais have that? Might be authentic but its damned inconvenient as I haven't got anything to adjsut it with and it needs a tweek....
