Note that the case has some sharpie on it from a previous owner, including the phrase 'I love NSync'. I have another very excellent, fully-finished, maple-capped Studio with 490R/498T pickups hat is also very much a keeper, but I would have to part with it before I let go of the "Ugly Duckling". Included in sale is the guitar, hard case (well used before my time with it but perfectly functional), and locking brown strap. Hell, that ugly finish doesn't even FEEL that bad now that it has a few hundred hours on it, but it's as ugly as the butt end of a hippopotamus! I love my Custom Shop ES 137, too, but it doesn't have the mojo of the "Shell Game Limited Edition". in the studio, when I just have to have "That Quintessential Gibson Tone", I always reach for that ugly guitar first, and it never fails to please me in every way except the look. The price of the Tributes has dropped the bar even further! I eventually traded the first specimen and kept the second.īUT, know what.
And losing $800 on supposedly "limited editions" doesn't ring my chimes too much, either. But I still HATE that CHEESY "WORN = NOT-QUITE -FINISHED" lacquer wipe with a passion that defies description. The second instrument was even better than the first in terms of build quality, sound, and playability. A couple of months later, Gibson released MORE of these "limited" guitars and dropped the street price to $1,150 (the ba$ta. I liked it so much, I bought a second and strung it up with flatwounds. The finish started to bleed and rub off the instrument almost immediately, but the action, neck width and thickness, fretwork and tone were to die for. I bit, and shelled out $1,550 + tax to Long and McQuade for one. It served us both very well over these past decades, but unfortunately, I didn’t have time to attack many of the projects that are. At the time, it was supposed to have been part of a "limited run" of 400 instruments. I built my first guitar 50 years ago, this year crazy, eh For almost all of those years I have built custom guitars to order whatever the customer wanted, I would build it. In September or so of 2009, I bought a "faded" all-mahogany Les Paul Studio with P-90s. I happen to agree with this 100%, and I'd like to tell you why. Just Jelly's $0.02 on the "go for the sound, not the looks" advice.
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