when I saw The Runaways at CBGBs in the late 70s, Joan Jett had a natural LP Deluxe just like this one, there are a good amount of pics of her with it online
Wow thats incredible, lucky you! I believe she was given that guitar by Kim Fowley. I've seen pics of her with it and its the reason that this is my dream guitar. I believe she was given that guitar by Kim Fowley.
Headstock looks like the silk screen wasn't lined up right the first time. Then, instead of cleaning it off and touching up the black, they just sprayed right over it and screened it again, leaving the gold ink beneath raising the black up to catch the light at certain angles. Nice to see they valued their QC back then, just as highly as they do today.
@@ChrisShortyAllen It's easy to just blame something on the individual but stuff that gets released like a product usually goes through more than one person for QA.
I lovity -love-love -love it , the LP Deluxe is such a cool guitar , the way the mini-humbuckers look with the surrounds on demz , I would KEEP that particular guitar , especially because of the double ' Les Paul ' decal ( Double Vision ! ) , sounds schick ! Thanks Trogly !
Hi, i top wrapped, felt different. tuned to pitch, took fish scale hooked between pups, raised Hi E hooked to fish scale 1 inch. Top wrap was 6 lbs less tension than through hole.
Lovely natural Deluxe! 😍 I'm a Tele-guy, so i love the mini-hums, which definitely bridge between singlecoils and humbuckers 👌 I also had the same radius issues with my 1980 Tokai Love Rock, which turned out to be a collapsed original Gotoh bridge. Comparing it side by side to the Faber replacement i got, was kind of wild, as the Gotoh just DIPPED 😳😅
The Edge has a 72 Les Paul Deluxe that you can see him playing in the I will Follow music video. Along with his legendary explorer it was one of the first guitars he owned. Now he has hundreds. Those mini hum-buckers are really cool and have a great tone.
I think that's a great guitar. I like the 3 piece natural top and I find the more subtle grain variations more interesting than a bold, book-matched flame top. I've only played mahogany necked LPs and the maple necked ones intrigue me. I have owned a L6S. I've not heard of or seen a maple necked Gibson with a headstock break. The fingerboard looks lovely too.
But they can get curved over the years, it collapses in the middle and gets to the point of being unplayable. Besides that they are curved on the underside🤓
I have a 78 Deluxe Gold Top and I’ve always wondered why mine has an ebony fretboard. Must be a transition year one to those pro models! Thanks Trogly!
Maybe it's just me but the combination of the two natural finishes on back reminds me of one of the caramel candies on a stick. When I was young I had bought a tube of graphite to lubricate everything from my skateboards sealed bearings to bicycle and guitar tuners. I even put it under the nut so the strings wouldn't look stick. That tube lasted forever. Anyone knows where I can fond some graphite lubricant these days. That's what the Greenburst I bought after watching it be the featured guitar on this show weighs . Exactly 10 lbs 4.7 oz.
I remember my dad having "Tube Lube" and it was just graphite but this was back in the '90s. StewMac Guitar Grease is a graphite paste. I use Big Bends Nut Sauce because it's in a little syringe so it's less messy.
@@joermnyc it might actually have been called that . But I got the stuff way back in the late 70s. It was a tube that I believe had 4 to 6 ounces in it. That lasted me 20 or so years with constant use.
I have the cherry sunburst on my list as my next mini. You gotta use the tone knob on these boys. Well, every Les Paul, but these guys especially. I learned not too long ago, that I don’t have to keep them on 10. I was amazed at the different tones you can coax out of it.
My first guitar teacher back in the mid 80s had a gold top Deluxe with the bridge routed for a humbucker. I'd imagine those are about as common as originals these days.
Raising or lowering the tailpiece also affects string tension and therefore playability - especially when bending strings.( Also probably sustain to some degree ) Raise to lower tension. Lower to increase.
So simple, yet I can't take my eyes off of it. I think that Pete Townshend of the Who had a few of these with a big, fat DiMarzio super distortion pickup mounted right in the middle of them. This wood is way too beautiful to me. Were the Les Paul's common stock by this point? This would have come right at the time that my late, big brother thought I was "old enough" to go in to music stores with him. I remember seeing a Gibson ES with this shade (and grade) of wood at a shop in 1979-1981 or so.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Goldtop Les Paul played by Tom Scholz on the first 3 Boston LPs came from the earlier 70s stretch of this run. He had the bridge pickup on his guitar replaced with a DiMarzio lead pickup that was probably not that mixrophonic.
My 76 natural top Deluxe played and sounded great. I should’ve kept that one. The top one mine was absolutely gorgeous. I remember that it had large ‘eyes’ in the grain.
I LIKE THE WOOD GRAIN! And something for everyone to think about. If you pull, lets say, 60 pounds of linear "pull" on a guitar string, it has 60# of compressive force on the neck. If you pull that string from the stop bar tailpiece, and pull it at a 45 degree angle over the tune-o-matic bridge, you've introduced 90 pounds of downward pressure upon the tune-o-matic. Hence the collapsed bridge. And the pressure will vary according to the angle the string makes from the stop bar to the tune-o-matic. THE GREATER THE ANGLE, THE GREATER THE DOWNWARD FORCE!
I did up a husk SG routed for P-90s with mini-hums to make it a "Deluxe".😂 (It sounded good, I also had that SG with stock Firebird pickups, and the Epi SG Classic (those P-90s are monsters with fuzz!)
This is the closest I've seen to my 78 Natural Deluxe (see profile pic) 😀 Only annoyance is that people always come up to me after gigs and say "man, I love that Goldtop!" 😑 The neck pickup in this one sounds much more crisp than mine - might be time to have it looked at 🤔
I have a 2011 Gold Deluxe. I bought a new tailpiece so I could topwrap without screwing the original tailpiece and changed the pickups to EMG M50 and M80. It’s quite a different beast now…
Austin, have you checked out the "Vintage Correct Bell Hat Knobs Gold with Silver Reflector" sold by Philadelphia Luthier Tools? From what I can tell, they're a pretty accurate recreation of the originals, though I think you'd be a better judge of that than I. Anyway, might be worth checking out if they're difficult to find as you had mentioned.
Handsome LP, its not super apparent is a 3 piece top. The good grain inst amazing, but its far for being horrendous. It would be cool a 1 piece top in natural, and maybe an ash top, or basswood
So since the 80s Explorer is a wopping $2500 (and the fingerboard bound 70s with MoP Gibson logo is somehow the same, despite having a bound fretboard which Gibson claims is labour intensive and expensive..) and they've discontinued the regular '76 Explorer, which was $2000 are they gonna bring it back at $2800-3000? for a basic all mahogany guitar, that would batsh!t crazy..
No, they're significantly stiffer and stronger, as it's a harder wood. The construction is still "wrong" though, so they're still not impervious to breaks.
Probably a dumb question but…are there any Les Paul’s with body mounted mini hum-buckers? I think not having pickup rings would change the look for the better. 🤷🏻♂️
It's hilarious that gibsons still even in business. I have a brand new LP costing about 4G and a no brand name 200 dolar strat style with epiphone prewired humbuckers. Out of my 9 mid to really pricy guitars. I play the 200 dollar no brand name china guitar with the $60 epiphone prewireds more than LP. Gibson mostly makes art now, not guitars.
when I saw The Runaways at CBGBs in the late 70s, Joan Jett had a natural LP Deluxe just like this one, there are a good amount of pics of her with it online
Wow thats incredible, lucky you! I believe she was given that guitar by Kim Fowley. I've seen pics of her with it and its the reason that this is my dream guitar. I believe she was given that guitar by Kim Fowley.
Deluxe is always nice.
Converted my Burny P90 custom to minihums.
Headstock looks like the silk screen wasn't lined up right the first time. Then, instead of cleaning it off and touching up the black, they just sprayed right over it and screened it again, leaving the gold ink beneath raising the black up to catch the light at certain angles. Nice to see they valued their QC back then, just as highly as they do today.
Hang on. Who's 'they'?
Don't you mean one employee?
@@ChrisShortyAllen It's easy to just blame something on the individual but stuff that gets released like a product usually goes through more than one person for QA.
Awesome 'Double Vision' riff on this very pretty '77 natural Deluxe! Minis sound so good here!
Yes! 😀 And followed by some Thin Lizzy 😊
Deluxe sounds so good in a mix
I recently had and sold a 1976 Deluxe and it had the double Les Paul logo on the headstock. It was also stamped with "2" (second)
So appropriate that you played double vision.
I was hoping he'd play the riff if he was going to use that song name as the intro to this guitar.
Holy SMOKES, this thing sounds awesome
Deluxe’s are my favorite LP’s
Can’t blame ya they’re pretty awesome.
I lovity -love-love -love it , the LP Deluxe is such a cool guitar , the way the mini-humbuckers look with the surrounds on demz , I would KEEP that particular guitar , especially because of the double ' Les Paul ' decal ( Double Vision ! ) , sounds schick ! Thanks Trogly !
Hi, i top wrapped, felt different. tuned to pitch, took fish scale hooked between pups, raised Hi E hooked to fish scale 1 inch. Top wrap was 6 lbs less tension than through hole.
I had a 72. Not heavy. Fantastic thing. I LOVED IT. Stolen birmingham, southsde,5 points area 1984. Along with my Kramer Pacer B 5140
That sucks! Lived in Bham 12 years, loved 5 points! Cool city despite the crime.
Wow the tones ' so bright and crisp ...and that beautiful natural would stand out on a dark stage ' ...3d Les Paul error is spookily unique.
Ace Frehley’s first Les Paul was a Deluxe that was routed out for humbuckers
So was Vivian Campbells
And I believe Adrian Smith's Les Paul Goldtop (of Iron Maiden) was a Deluxe model with the mini humbuckers
I thought he did that himself, no? I know he did a lot of mods to that Les Paul, if it’s the one I’m thinking of with the neck joint sanded down?
Al Di Meola’s black one from Elegant Gypsy, too.
I had the 1976 in that finish that was beautiful. That in the early 80’s. In 1977 I got a 1968 LP Custom 2 pup black beauty.
I’m a big fan of the Deluxe models. Lotta people on the minis, but if you know what to deal with them, you get great tone
Hello Trogsters.
Lovely natural Deluxe! 😍 I'm a Tele-guy, so i love the mini-hums, which definitely bridge between singlecoils and humbuckers 👌 I also had the same radius issues with my 1980 Tokai Love Rock, which turned out to be a collapsed original Gotoh bridge. Comparing it side by side to the Faber replacement i got, was kind of wild, as the Gotoh just DIPPED 😳😅
The Edge has a 72 Les Paul Deluxe that you can see him playing in the I will Follow music video. Along with his legendary explorer it was one of the first guitars he owned. Now he has hundreds. Those mini hum-buckers are really cool and have a great tone.
I think that's a great guitar. I like the 3 piece natural top and I find the more subtle grain variations more interesting than a bold, book-matched flame top. I've only played mahogany necked LPs and the maple necked ones intrigue me. I have owned a L6S. I've not heard of or seen a maple necked Gibson with a headstock break.
The fingerboard looks lovely too.
The bridge isn't curved, it's flat on the top, but the saddles are different heights to match the curve of the fretboard.
But they can get curved over the years, it collapses in the middle and gets to the point of being unplayable. Besides that they are curved on the underside🤓
I really like the clean tones.
I have a 78 Deluxe Gold Top and I’ve always wondered why mine has an ebony fretboard. Must be a transition year one to those pro models! Thanks Trogly!
Maybe it's just me but the combination of the two natural finishes on back reminds me of one of the caramel candies on a stick. When I was young I had bought a tube of graphite to lubricate everything from my skateboards sealed bearings to bicycle and guitar tuners. I even put it under the nut so the strings wouldn't look stick. That tube lasted forever. Anyone knows where I can fond some graphite lubricant these days. That's what the Greenburst I bought after watching it be the featured guitar on this show weighs . Exactly 10 lbs 4.7 oz.
I remember my dad having "Tube Lube" and it was just graphite but this was back in the '90s.
StewMac Guitar Grease is a graphite paste. I use Big Bends Nut Sauce because it's in a little syringe so it's less messy.
@@joermnyc it might actually have been called that . But I got the stuff way back in the late 70s. It was a tube that I believe had 4 to 6 ounces in it. That lasted me 20 or so years with constant use.
My 76 Deluxe had no problem with microphonic pups. I played mine LOUD through Marshall 50 Watts of that era.
Some Scott Gorham and Dickey Betts style riffs in there. Sounds good.
I have the cherry sunburst on my list as my next mini. You gotta use the tone knob on these boys. Well, every Les Paul, but these guys especially. I learned not too long ago, that I don’t have to keep them on 10. I was amazed at the different tones you can coax out of it.
My 76 Deluxe has the threaded bushings.
I love the neck pick up but not that bridge. I understand why a lot of these got routed for full size humbuckers.
My first guitar teacher back in the mid 80s had a gold top Deluxe with the bridge routed for a humbucker. I'd imagine those are about as common as originals these days.
That’s the best sounding guitar you reviewed in a long time. I actually like a Gibson.
I love bright sounding axes, one of these days I need to get an SG or LP with mini’s hah!
Raising or lowering the tailpiece also affects string tension and therefore playability - especially when bending strings.( Also probably sustain to some degree )
Raise to lower tension.
Lower to increase.
So simple, yet I can't take my eyes off of it. I think that Pete Townshend of the Who had a few of these with a big, fat DiMarzio super distortion pickup mounted right in the middle of them. This wood is way too beautiful to me.
Were the Les Paul's common stock by this point? This would have come right at the time that my late, big brother thought I was "old enough" to go in to music stores with him. I remember seeing a Gibson ES with this shade (and grade) of wood at a shop in 1979-1981 or so.
itt sounds phenomenal to me
Sounds great.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Goldtop Les Paul played by Tom Scholz on the first 3 Boston LPs came from the earlier 70s stretch of this run. He had the bridge pickup on his guitar replaced with a DiMarzio lead pickup that was probably not that mixrophonic.
Trogly this guitar sounds incredible
Nice and good sounding guitar!
My 76 natural top Deluxe played and sounded great. I should’ve kept that one. The top one mine was absolutely gorgeous. I remember that it had large ‘eyes’ in the grain.
I LIKE THE WOOD GRAIN!
And something for everyone to think about. If you pull, lets say, 60 pounds of linear "pull" on a guitar string, it has 60# of compressive force on the neck. If you pull that string from the stop bar tailpiece, and pull it at a 45 degree angle over the tune-o-matic bridge, you've introduced 90 pounds of downward pressure upon the tune-o-matic. Hence the collapsed bridge. And the pressure will vary according to the angle the string makes from the stop bar to the tune-o-matic. THE GREATER THE ANGLE, THE GREATER THE DOWNWARD FORCE!
1976 bicentennial series the natural top was considered to be the ‘white’ one in addition to the translucent red and blue ones.
It's a silk screen not a decal on the headstock. The printer should have cleared the excess ink from the screen
wow, those sound great
LP Deluxe history / Collapsed Bridge info was interesting!! 😎👍🏼
Very nice guitar. I've never been a Deluxe guy. But that's nice!
Big fan of top wrapping strings. Me and Joe Bonamassa.
I like it
Man I love those maple deluxe les pauls.
My ‘74 Standard has those flower Gibson tuning machines.
I did up a husk SG routed for P-90s with mini-hums to make it a "Deluxe".😂 (It sounded good, I also had that SG with stock Firebird pickups, and the Epi SG Classic (those P-90s are monsters with fuzz!)
This is the closest I've seen to my 78 Natural Deluxe (see profile pic) 😀 Only annoyance is that people always come up to me after gigs and say "man, I love that Goldtop!" 😑
The neck pickup in this one sounds much more crisp than mine - might be time to have it looked at 🤔
Hello from Alaska.
Killer tones!
I had a wine red 76 Deluxe that had the brass bushings for the pickup mounting. I'd only ever seen the bar before that one, weirded me out a bit lol
That guitar would breathe fire with p90s
I have a 2011 Gold Deluxe. I bought a new tailpiece so I could topwrap without screwing the original tailpiece and changed the pickups to EMG M50 and M80. It’s quite a different beast now…
Austin, have you checked out the "Vintage Correct Bell Hat Knobs Gold with Silver Reflector" sold by Philadelphia Luthier Tools? From what I can tell, they're a pretty accurate recreation of the originals, though I think you'd be a better judge of that than I. Anyway, might be worth checking out if they're difficult to find as you had mentioned.
I need a natural deluxe in my collection.
I'll keep playing my Frankenphone... 2011 Epi Dot, with a broken headstock.
I bet ya have her sounding awesome.
i love natural guitars
I think I would like that one, just cause of the logo,mishap. LoL. I like the p-90s.
Handsome LP, its not super apparent is a 3 piece top. The good grain inst amazing, but its far for being horrendous. It would be cool a 1 piece top in natural, and maybe an ash top, or basswood
When I saw double vision in the title, I was thinking Mick Jones from Foreigner. Since he plays a Les Paul.
At least it's comforting for me to know that Gibson's QC was garbage even back in '76
That looks like the Les Paul that Paul Jackson of Blackberry Smoke plays on stage...imo
What would be the difference between the Mini Humbuckers and the ones on a Firebird. They're the same size, I think
The clean tones…
So since the 80s Explorer is a wopping $2500 (and the fingerboard bound 70s with MoP Gibson logo is somehow the same, despite having a bound fretboard which Gibson claims is labour intensive and expensive..) and they've discontinued the regular '76 Explorer, which was $2000 are they gonna bring it back at $2800-3000? for a basic all mahogany guitar, that would batsh!t crazy..
I wished I could just buy a guitar whenever I wanted to. Yeah I’m a little envious. Lol
Not your favorite guitar- but l like those pickups much more than regular humbuckers- l’m a fender fanboy and maybe that brighter tone is why…
Do maple necks break as easily as mahogany?
No, they're significantly stiffer and stronger, as it's a harder wood. The construction is still "wrong" though, so they're still not impervious to breaks.
A feeler gage? What thickness feeler gauge, Trogs? You do realize that they come in assorted different thicknesses?
The size is not important- it is only to test that there is a gap. You could use a piece of paper
Austin, what happened to the output jack on the pancake body Standard at 1:29 if that isn't a QC fail then I'll eat my stupid hat?
Jangle!
Probably a dumb question but…are there any Les Paul’s with body mounted mini hum-buckers? I think not having pickup rings would change the look for the better. 🤷🏻♂️
Troglidite lancaster pa!
I work in Ephrata.🤣
@@masterrymes Live in Lititz
Hold on to it as a place holder. You will most likely not find a better example. If you do buy a lottery ticket!
Ive got a 90s Epiphone 56 gold top that im going to ditch p90s for minibuckers.
I like my guitars DIRTY. Like, proper dirty...
When I drop one at the luthier, I have to specify "please don't clean anything"...
Is it the 1 which slash used on November rain video?...Peace!
Didn't even mention the writing, possibly letters , in the neck route. Someone's initials ?
Joan?
I think he's said the guys in the factory back then would name nice looking guitars after wives, girlfriends or their kids.
@@joermnyc That's completely false.
❓Hey Austin, or if anyone knows,
What is the company or site that the Mod shop gets their unique and special custom parts from❓
Thanks 🙏🏻
Temu?😂
API. Just search reverb for API Gibson and you should find their shop of goodies
Butter 🧈 butter 🧈 butter
What does your wife think of your museum collection? 😂😂 $$$$$$
Talk about the wight!!!!! 5 kg !!!!!!!
Double vision? Foreigner?
Hey everybody!!
Yooo
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One view in 23 seconds? Trogly is falling off
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It's hilarious that gibsons still even in business. I have a brand new LP costing about 4G and a no brand name 200 dolar strat style with epiphone prewired humbuckers. Out of my 9 mid to really pricy guitars. I play the 200 dollar no brand name china guitar with the $60 epiphone prewireds more than LP. Gibson mostly makes art now, not guitars.
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Cheers biker j!
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I could get past a pancake body, multi piece maple capped top, 2 piece body…..but never….a multi piece neck🤢🤮. New to Gibson lover, but Not worth it👎🏼
Because of the looks? Multi piece necks are stronger. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but different strokes...
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