I think I’d get the neck sorted, replace the broken tone pot & output Jack & leave the finish as is. I have over 60 guitars but my 1955 Les Paul Jr. is one of my favorites. I’m the 3rd owner. I knew the second owner well & he was friends with the 1st owner’s son. I also have the original Les Paul Jr. amp that was bought @ the same time as the guitar . Last pieces of gear I’d ever sell.
Some folks mistake a 'conservation' project for a 'restoration' project. Restoring is making an item look and function as if it were new. Conservation is stopping the disintegration of an item, and making it functional again. This old Gibson was conserved very well. Nice work.
I honestly believe this old axe was just waiting for a guy like you, Matthew,, to bring her back to life. She would be very greatful, I feel. “Play on Man”!
That’s pretty incredible…. Nothing against that guitar, but beat up crappy unplayable guitars typically work incredibly well for slide… very cool sound !!!!!
Omg, I actually started laughing when you started playing that thing. Looks like a total wreck, horribly neglected, and nearly destroyed..... but sounds like a dream!
When you started playing it after putting some new strings on it my heart was moved honestly. There’s something beautiful and kinda sad about an old guitar being played again. It’s like you brought life back into it. Can’t wait to see the restoration. Keep it up man ❤
This is like those heartbreaking videos when someone rescues an old dog or a cat, and they're been neglected and ignored, then they finally get a bath, and a hug, and sit calm and safe getting stroked until they start to relax. You can almost hear that guitar's tension evaporate when you start that slide playing, finally getting the love and attention it deserves.
For some reason I really like this journey. The journey that you take is on to find old relics and bring them back to life. It really played cool with the slide. But I can't wait to see how you fix it. Really like what you do
Looking forward to seeing if it's salvageable. You already showed it has a great sound, but honestly that's more on you and that fantastic amp. Good luck man!
man what a fitting piece was like you just resurrected that beauty right then and there ,brought a tear to my eye back from the crossroads what a save !
This is just my humble opinion. This is the best channel on RUclips, the content is fantastic Matthew seems like such a nice person, great musician, and what has attracted me to all this, as I am touring, musician, for a while, I went down the road of big pedalboards lots of pedals and lots of options, for live and studio situations but somehow I keep trying to get back to my Roots of a good guitar a good amp and one or two pedals and that’s it. I’m just about back to a guitar and amplifier and to hear what Matthew is doing with his channel absolutely overjoys me,this is starting a new trend back towards playing the guitar and worrying about your guitar in your amp and not pedalboards and I don’t have one thing against Big pedalboards lots of pedals because there are people that honestly just enjoy that ,but myself I enjoy , this channel because Matthew is about the guitar in the amp and minimal pedals,and great content ,great job Matthew ,love the cd btw
ve got another JR Matthew, I think personally that’s the guitar for you, more than the special, your playing is that great to me, it’s the simplicity and all you need 💙
Matt, I think your selling yourself and the channel short by saying in somewhat apologetic tone, that “you just need to make a video”. This is an exciting find and I know you are capable of bringing it back to life and we look forward to you taking us along on the journey. Cheers!
First time on your channel, having just discovered it based on the Les Paul title and thumb nail. To be perfectly honest I'm really just subscribing because I desperately want to learn the origins and the fate of this guitar. Please don't keep us waiting long. On a side note, every day I kick myself for not hanging on to some of the guitars I owned when I was a teenager back in the late 70's and early 80's. I would often barter and end up with some of the most unique guitars. I'm pretty sure if I still had some of them, they'd be worth a small fortune, because two of them seemed to have been incredibly rare. In any event, I'm glad to have stumbled upon your channel, and I look forward to the followup videos about this Les Paul.
Remember your video DROP D Country Blues??? I play that song that u made all days. Its like a drug. U create amazing melodys. No matter with finger or pick. The TONE u have is unique in youtube in my opinion. Keep rocking.
Hi Mathew. I'm intrigued to know what you have for me. I live in the U.K. and I don't think You Tube would allow an exchange of any personal information or details on their platform. Good luck with the resto.
I can’t wait to see how this turns out. I just refinished my 05 Vintange sunburst lpj to a blonde and it turned out great. Looking forward to what you do. Can’t believe I wasn’t already subbed
Very cool but what make it extremely cool is the fact that the guitar actually played! I think you're actually way more optimistic then I would be & I look forward to seeing what you're going to do with it.
Looks like that neck will have to come out, that junior has basically dried out, neck needs reglueing at a minimum... Good luck Matt... It should come up a treat, sounds great already....!
Just came across your channel and music content. Enjoyed the video and your musical style. Your voice is very similar to Gil Moore of Triumph. One of my favorite bands! Subscribed! 👍
Talk about rusticated, geez if it were mine I would just fix the neck angle and just like oil it just to preserve what's left. I'm excited to see what you will eventually end up doing with it but yeah that's a keeper
Please make this a conservation project, and not a restoration project. IMO I think that super road worn look looks great and I think finding a way to preserve whats left of the old worn paint would be best
Yeah man look forward to seeing you functionally restore this, even refinish it , I mean does it even have humidity damage... will it stabilize if you dry it out? and I'm totally with you that early Specials and Juniors are so fricking cool that these are worth the effort to make them growl and sing again, so I'm praying that the neck will be usable... nice barn find. 🚜
Just shows that 1950s quality. This thing has literally been trashed yet the volume pot still works. Pots now days last at best a year if gigging a lot. Now get it restored and slap a gretsch style sparkle finish on it
Well I’ll be DogGonned, when you said that wreck of a guitar has a magical sound, I was like yeah right… then you busted out the slide on a Super Reverb and my jaw dropped and a big smile formed. Yep restore that thing it will be cool.
That original tailpiece is valuable. The older materials are of better quality and assist in better tones. I know that you know these things. I would LOVE to gig with that baby just to see the looks it would get.
Dude I'm a huge fan of the channel. I'm from Brazil but I'm always in the DFW area for work. I really want to know how do you manage to find theses gems, is it Craigslist, reverb? I'm never lucky enough to find these things
I am from the Philippines. I heard the album via Apple Music, nice! Now, I tried ordering the Vinyl Album, but shipping cost much more than the album itself. I will still order it, but I just need to figure how in such a way that I do not pay so much for the shipping.
In that condition it'd take a big effor to just make it playable. I'd say that the cost to make it playable exceeds its value as it stands. Short of being in splinters or flames, or found in an undersea shipwreck, that's about as rough as it gets.
I'm not saying anything definitively, but that neck has been bolted onto that body. Gibson(aside from some models from their dark period) uses set neck design. Whether or not it was to reinforce a prior neck break, or as some sort of Frankenstein project, who is to say, but wouldn't it call in to question the authenticity of the whole thing? Perhaps the bridge didn't fit because the posts were not drilled according to Gibson specs. Were pot codes looked up? What about the internals of that p90? Did someone bolt a vintage(is it really vintage) Gibson neck onto a beat up Chibson or Epiphone body? I have so many questions.
that's like 20k worth of custom shop relicing
maximum patina
I think I’d get the neck sorted, replace the broken tone pot & output Jack & leave the finish as is.
I have over 60 guitars but my 1955 Les Paul Jr. is one of my favorites. I’m the 3rd owner.
I knew the second owner well & he was friends with the 1st owner’s son. I also have the original Les Paul Jr. amp that was bought @ the same time as the guitar . Last pieces of gear I’d ever sell.
If he left it as is some Les Paul snobs would’ve paid $50k
All Gibson USA needs is a flood to make an extra 100 million selling their damaged stock.
Lol!
Some folks mistake a 'conservation' project for a 'restoration' project. Restoring is making an item look and function as if it were new. Conservation is stopping the disintegration of an item, and making it functional again. This old Gibson was conserved very well. Nice work.
I honestly believe this old axe was just waiting for a guy like you, Matthew,, to bring her back to life. She would be very greatful, I feel. “Play on Man”!
Was sitting for a long long time !
Waiting a long time in the elements, luckily we got it! ✌🏻
That’s pretty incredible…. Nothing against that guitar, but beat up crappy unplayable guitars typically work incredibly well for slide… very cool sound !!!!!
Omg, I actually started laughing when you started playing that thing. Looks like a total wreck, horribly neglected, and nearly destroyed..... but sounds like a dream!
The sound actually surprise and inspired me. Can't wait to actually play it!
You are the luckiest guitar player I've ever saw .
That Les Paul Jr. wants to live so bad. It's worth restoring.
Such a lack of respect for a work of art. Im glad you are going to resurrect this beauty.
Perfect to test the vibe, swamp slide
Making such beautiful music on such a compromised instrument proves just how gifted a musician you are. Thank you.
Love these restoration videos. Looking forward to future developments with this one.
When you started playing it after putting some new strings on it my heart was moved honestly. There’s something beautiful and kinda sad about an old guitar being played again. It’s like you brought life back into it. Can’t wait to see the restoration. Keep it up man ❤
This is like those heartbreaking videos when someone rescues an old dog or a cat, and they're been neglected and ignored, then they finally get a bath, and a hug, and sit calm and safe getting stroked until they start to relax. You can almost hear that guitar's tension evaporate when you start that slide playing, finally getting the love and attention it deserves.
For some reason I really like this journey. The journey that you take is on to find old relics and bring them back to life. It really played cool with the slide. But I can't wait to see how you fix it. Really like what you do
Sounded pretty magic when you put that slide on it man.
Looking forward to seeing if it's salvageable. You already showed it has a great sound, but honestly that's more on you and that fantastic amp. Good luck man!
Of course it’s salvageable.
It just goes to show that a good player can make anything sound good! Great score I can’t wait to hear it when it’s restored
Truly a testimony to Gibson's greatness. Great find indeed!!
Not only do that tone call to my soul, it walked with my soul speaking of past troubles.
Awesome Matthew, great find. The pickup sounds good. Can't wait to see you bring it back to life. Cheers
man what a fitting piece was like you just resurrected that beauty right then and there ,brought a tear to my eye
back from the crossroads what a save !
Amazing find, Matthew! Looking forward to the restoration.
Barn Finds sounds like a great name/concept for an album. Thanks for sharing! 🎸
Wow! That slide makes me think of a long freight train clacking across the flat plains… into infinity…
I want to see the future restoration video so much
10/10 matthew scott video
Nice man it's seems you've got a diamond in the rough. I can't wait to see what you'll do with it.
Such a great find! It does sound really good too! I wouldn't repaint it once it's all repaired, it's cool to see that flaky paint on it...
Honestly I would strip the rest of the paint, and put some sort of nice lacquer on the wood. Think a natural finish could be really cool.
@@TheTombomb5000 NO ! Thats looks so cool. I would repair it structurally but absolutely leave the finish.
Really looking fwrd to watching you rescue this guitar - Thanks Matt! 😎
Wow, what a find. Looking forward to following this guitar’s rebirth.
LOVE these restoration videos of yours... can't wait for the next one!
(that neck & heel situation looks like a real doozy...)
What a sound! I’ll be keeping a close eye on how this beauty turns out. Amazing!
This is just my humble opinion. This is the best channel on RUclips, the content is fantastic Matthew seems like such a nice person, great musician, and what has attracted me to all this, as I am touring, musician, for a while, I went down the road of big pedalboards lots of pedals and lots of options, for live and studio situations but somehow I keep trying to get back to my Roots of a good guitar a good amp and one or two pedals and that’s it. I’m just about back to a guitar and amplifier and to hear what Matthew is doing with his channel absolutely overjoys me,this is starting a new trend back towards playing the guitar and worrying about your guitar in your amp and not pedalboards and I don’t have one thing against Big pedalboards lots of pedals because there are people that honestly just enjoy that ,but myself I enjoy , this channel because Matthew is about the guitar in the amp and minimal pedals,and great content ,great job Matthew ,love the cd btw
Love these vids, sounds awesome and is a testament of how these guitars stand the test of time. Cheers from Chile 🇨🇱
God I hope you sell that thing to me. I LOVE restoring and resto-modding old guitars!
Can’t wait to see how this turns out!
ve got another JR Matthew, I think personally that’s the guitar for you, more than the special, your playing is that great to me, it’s the simplicity and all you need 💙
Matt, I think your selling yourself and the channel short by saying in somewhat apologetic tone, that “you just need to make a video”. This is an exciting find and I know you are capable of bringing it back to life and we look forward to you taking us along on the journey. Cheers!
That is some damn mighty fine slide work, friend
First time on your channel, having just discovered it based on the Les Paul title and thumb nail. To be perfectly honest I'm really just subscribing because I desperately want to learn the origins and the fate of this guitar. Please don't keep us waiting long.
On a side note, every day I kick myself for not hanging on to some of the guitars I owned when I was a teenager back in the late 70's and early 80's. I would often barter and end up with some of the most unique guitars. I'm pretty sure if I still had some of them, they'd be worth a small fortune, because two of them seemed to have been incredibly rare. In any event, I'm glad to have stumbled upon your channel, and I look forward to the followup videos about this Les Paul.
Remember your video DROP D Country Blues??? I play that song that u made all days. Its like a drug. U create amazing melodys. No matter with finger or pick. The TONE u have is unique in youtube in my opinion. Keep rocking.
Sounds great and looking forward to see what you do with it Matthew
This is the content we need. Thank you sir, and congrats on the album.
I was surprised that it even worked. You were able to resurrect it. Sounds like this will be a big job. Can’t wait to see the progress.
That actually sounds really good with the slide. When you get it all restored that Junior is going to be a killer.
Boy, I hope you don't do anything to ruin that antique wood tone that it has! It sounds beautiful!
It is Fantastic my wife was listening to your video as I watched and you made her cry when you brought to life that guitar. Good job and God Bless
That sounded just great when you were using the slide.
Hi Mathew. I'm intrigued to know what you have for me. I live in the U.K.
and I don't think You Tube would allow an exchange of any personal information or details on their platform. Good luck with the resto.
Sorry that was a spam comment not from me! It's been reported. Thanks for watching and look forward to episode 2!
I can’t wait to see how this turns out. I just refinished my 05 Vintange sunburst lpj to a blonde and it turned out great. Looking forward to what you do. Can’t believe I wasn’t already subbed
Can’t wait to see how this turns out
G'day Matt, from Sydney Australia. Had thought I was already subscribed and am now
Wow can hardly wait to see u bring this guitar back to life!
Very cool but what make it extremely cool is the fact that the guitar actually played!
I think you're actually way more optimistic then I would be & I look forward to seeing what you're going to do with it.
Man ....where do you find these ...quite nice of the pick up to play the game ....looking forward to the restore 😎👍
I cannot beleive how good that sounded. Awesome.
Time to get that restored 😮
If that Pick up alone works , it is a worthwhile purchase/ journey!
Man the stories that must be attached to that guitar???
I buy lots of flea market wrecks (and gems too) This is pretty awesome ...writing this before watching ...lol
Looks like that neck will have to come out, that junior has basically dried out, neck needs reglueing at a minimum... Good luck Matt... It should come up a treat, sounds great already....!
This would be a good opportunity to restore non-traditionally, it would be cool to see what a luthier could do to this thing. Sounds great!
Sounds incredible, I hope there’s a way to remove the screws and reattach the neck properly.
Ah man! The Sweet sound of revival. Gives me the goose bumps really.
I got a metal 🎸for you above ✌️🎉🎉🎉🎉
Just came across your channel and music content. Enjoyed the video and your musical style. Your voice is very similar to Gil Moore of Triumph. One of my favorite bands! Subscribed! 👍
I WISH I could’ve found it! Freaking awesome find!
Talk about rusticated, geez if it were mine I would just fix the neck angle and just like oil it just to preserve what's left. I'm excited to see what you will eventually end up doing with it but yeah that's a keeper
Amazing that that old soldier still has life!
Really cool, sounds great!
Please make this a conservation project, and not a restoration project. IMO I think that super road worn look looks great and I think finding a way to preserve whats left of the old worn paint would be best
Wow.
You have a Hell of a job ahead of you.
Thank you for saving this guitar. Subscribed ❤
that pickup sounds amazing!
Yeah man look forward to seeing you functionally restore this, even refinish it , I mean does it even have humidity damage... will it stabilize if you dry it out?
and I'm totally with you that early Specials and Juniors are so fricking cool that these are worth the effort to make them growl and sing again, so I'm praying that the neck will be usable... nice barn find. 🚜
Unbelievably it sounds great .. just clear coat it to preserve what’s left.
gibson les paul junior = i have a 1954 copy - the very early few had bolt on necks ? so i read some where !
I want to see you restore the poor old thing
Seller: it’s old, it has to be worth something??
Me: 🤔 biting my tongue, pretending it’s hopeless!
GREAT FIND!
THEN PLAY ON!, Great series ...
Just shows that 1950s quality. This thing has literally been trashed yet the volume pot still works. Pots now days last at best a year if gigging a lot. Now get it restored and slap a gretsch style sparkle finish on it
Great video! Love what you do 👍
Well I’ll be DogGonned, when you said that wreck of a guitar has a magical sound, I was like yeah right… then you busted out the slide on a Super Reverb and my jaw dropped and a big smile formed. Yep restore that thing it will be cool.
Cool. The pots may have date codes. :)
Amazing job on that guitar man and what a cool find!! Sounding good brother
that thing has some soul. It sounds incredible.
9:22 That thing sounds great. 10/10 would rip some blues riffs on it.
Mathew can make anything sound good!
I hope I get to see the next video on how you will restore this guitar. Where will I find it?
That original tailpiece is valuable. The older materials are of better quality and assist in better tones. I know that you know these things. I would LOVE to gig with that baby just to see the looks it would get.
Check with Trogly’s also he knows alot about all the old Gibsons and maybe can advise .
Dude I'm a huge fan of the channel. I'm from Brazil but I'm always in the DFW area for work. I really want to know how do you manage to find theses gems, is it Craigslist, reverb? I'm never lucky enough to find these things
This is a cool score dude, I'd leave the roadworn finish as is, it gives it character. Awesome tone that needs to be heard 🎸🔊
I am from the Philippines. I heard the album via Apple Music, nice! Now, I tried ordering the Vinyl Album, but shipping cost much more than the album itself. I will still order it, but I just need to figure how in such a way that I do not pay so much for the shipping.
Sounds awesome!
Restore the guitar dude!
In that condition it'd take a big effor to just make it playable. I'd say that the cost to make it playable exceeds its value as it stands.
Short of being in splinters or flames, or found in an undersea shipwreck, that's about as rough as it gets.
Awesome. I bet that thing is gonna be amazing if you get it cleaned up just a bit and the action right. Hopefully the neck is straight
Absolutely restore that!!!
I'm not saying anything definitively, but that neck has been bolted onto that body. Gibson(aside from some models from their dark period) uses set neck design. Whether or not it was to reinforce a prior neck break, or as some sort of Frankenstein project, who is to say, but wouldn't it call in to question the authenticity of the whole thing? Perhaps the bridge didn't fit because the posts were not drilled according to Gibson specs. Were pot codes looked up? What about the internals of that p90? Did someone bolt a vintage(is it really vintage) Gibson neck onto a beat up Chibson or Epiphone body? I have so many questions.
My first question before thinking of restoring some performance into this peice of wood would be, does the trust rod still work..?
Hope you can do something with it
I might be alone in wishing it wasn't touched, it was already gorgeous
looks really sick, sounds great too
Dude that is beautiful!
Nice Rory Gallagher paint-job😁
What a find.... I'd leavebit just like that... Maybe fix the neck and output jack😂
Yes. Go for it!
....and thus starts the magic........a Gibson has come back to life.