I Found a Legit 1958 Gibson Les Paul at Goodwill | Guitar Hunting With Trogly
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I would've never expected to find a 50s Les Paul at Goodwill! Just goes to show you that golden era guitars are still out there with people that don't know their true value
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As soon as I saw this listed, (I check a lot.) I had a feeling you'd be making a video on it haha.
I emailed you about this! Sweet
Trog,
Please do not rally behind taking advantage of individuals or agencies who have unwitting possession of a valuable item. "Kicking themselves" - Not cool. I don't look up the values of things I donate. To suggest someone would regret their donation based on what they would have been able to sell something for is riddic-bo-bic. It misses the point almost completely.
Give.
'Ha-ha, I underpaid for this axe and I flipped it for a great profit. I just love shorting social service agencies. Don't ask, don't tell, we'll make ours and they'll get theirs. Not 'fair' Austin.
P.S. Five years ago this was a good place for bargains. The influx of profiteers erased that. The social experiment fails if you don't give and receive equally. Do Not mess with the marginalized and socially dependent members of our society. Just Don't! DON'T.
The Trogly's Guitar Show, Is it possible the Buyer could write-off the cost of this guitar on their Taxes because it was purchased from Goodwill?
Interesting episode, thank you.
HOW MUCH FOR FJESTADS BLUE BOOK OF GUITAR VALUES
And thanks to Matt for buying it and presenting the rustic beauty and story.
I think I watched the episode, and it actually still played.
Over a million views, it paid for itself.
@george spear awesome will do, I didn't see the notification. Thanks brother.
@@zackattack635 lmao i doubt that
@@RATsnak3 a million views is 6-8k.
I think Matthew Scott bought that Les Paul. Check out his channel.
Yes he did... I just watched the vid.. Sounds fantastic !!
i saw that also,,just randomly came across vid,,then just found this,,pretty cool find imo
Yes! Just saw that video yesterday :-D
Just watched that vid. Thing plays like a beauty.
Yes Matthew is a lucky guy, hes buy a great guitar and restored the guitar now the guitar sounds really good, is incredible
I'm pretty sure youtuber Matthew Scott bought this very guitar. He has a video detailing it. Check it out.
That is the exact model.
Just watched his video a day ago
Yep he bought it. I watched the video too
im here because of his video lol
Hi. Yeah, I think you need to check it out Trogly.
Dedicated series for goodwill called goodwill hunting. Bad joke, yes, but I feel it needs to be done.
You've got my full support!
It's literally on the thumbnail...
Bad joke, but it’s not your fault.
How do you like them hunting? Lol.
He already called the last video that
never clicked so fast...
Me too
Me too
Yup lol
YUP!
Same bruv
Matthew Scott
is the proud owner of this goodwill 58 Les Paul there some videos on what they had to repair on the guitar now it's in good hands,Plus Matt has short demo video on how the guitar sounds.
Matthew Scott, the youtuber bought it
Normans Rare Guitars verdict: player grade, really plays well
Hey trogly, love your channel. I actually won that Corvus last week and I think your video prevented a lot of people from bidding that guitar up to astronomical levels. I ended up getting it for just over 900 and with shipping it was under 950.00. I've always dug that body shape and am pretty excited to play around with it, and luckily I have a friend who has those same tuners on hand. Keep the great videos coming.
I absolutely love that guitar.... this clearly bears the mark of life, and that makes it so much more valuable. A few repairs here and there, and you have a time traveler....
Back in the mid 90's I was attending a local college program and one of the parts of the program was to work for a non-profit organization and I took the Goodwill assignment. I honestly did not know that much about Goodwill prior to the 6 weeks I worked there. Here is what I came away with as a now first hand knowledge and experienced opinion of the organization, If you recall those videos showing Gibson destroying those guitars you will now understand why I was not surprised or even angered by it. At Good will. a lot of good stuff gets destroyed!! One time we had a set of touch lamps get donated, these were not cheap ones!! They were very nice and very beautiful looking, but on one of the lamps the cord had been cut about 3 inches before the plug. I was told to take both lamps out to the big dumpster and throw them in, literally THROW them in!! I had to make sure to throw them against the steel sides of the dumpster so as to break the multi-pieced glass shades and damage the metal as much as possible. If an electrical product came in with a wiring issue it was to be destroyed immediately! Brand new cast iron cooking pans were to be destroyed as best as we could, because those don't sell very well and are usually heavy and take up shelf space. Many times old computer gaming systems would come in and they would actually separate the machines, the controllers and any discs that were included and put them in different places around the store and sell them individually. There was one old system that came in and the ONLY way to use it was with the included 5 inch floppy disk (shows you how old it was lol) we were told to separate the disks, I told the manager that without those disks the system was no good, oh well, too bad do it anyway. One time an old chest came in with some really nice dishes in it. I was told to take the chest out back to the dumpster, throw the dishes into the dumpster smashing them all and then bring the chest back in because it appeared to be an old one. As it turns out the chest was appraised to be valued at about $900!! I talked to the appraiser about the set of dishes and told them the brand name, the appraiser said those dishes would have been worth around $500!!
So, while there are a lot of good buys at Goodwill, I feel that they disrespect a lot of people who make donations to them. So if you are ever feeling generous and charitable and want to donate stuff to Goodwill, PLEASE talk to the store manager and if possible show them your items. Tell the manager you are aware that they destroy/dispose of a lot of items and to please let you know if any of your items would be treated as such. This way maybe you could find someone or somewhere else to donate your "grannies old dishes" gift where it would be more appreciated. Personally I would donate to a local Salvation Army store before I would to a Goodwill. Salvation Army feeds and clothes the poor, whereas Goodwill is just about employing sometimes otherwise unemployable people, criminals etc. Also, check out how much Goodwill pays it's CEO's and other such people, that is where most of it's money actually goes!
Wealth of information! Thank you Ron!
Gadzooks! Thank you ! I was just about to donate my 50 year old 12 pound collection of Filmed and documented hairy Dry nose pickings to Charity That I have religously accumulated inside every orifice my 1958 les paul! These crooks do not deserve my nose pickings!
@@renegade2556 Nor your Les Paul ! Lol. GIVE it to me instead lol.
@@alabamahebrew I flick Boogers in your general direction! It is nice to be appreciated!
@@renegade2556 umm well uhh alrighty then... Carry on
Its not only Goodwill; I am currently in the market for an item on Ebay, and I followed several auctions to get an idea of what a typical used price would be. I have seen listing selling for about 50 bucks less than the price of new! and then you have to add shipping while the new ships out for free...
I don't understand who would purchase a used item, several years old, and pay more than the price new....
The whole 2min I was like "It really looks like Matthew Scott's vintage Les Paul guitar from goodwill" then after seeing the front this confirms it is actually the same guitar. He made a series of videos about it that is really interesting to watch.
I recently acquired a free 1966 fender blackface deluxe reverb from my uncle as he was renovating an abandoned plumbing supply warehouse. Looks to be all original and still worked.
The California Series is sort of the ancestor of the American Special/Performer line. They had the same mix of vintage and modern specs, and were made from USA parts in the Mexico factory to cut down the cost. That's the main thing that makes them unique. They also have their own serial number prefix (which is super uncommon, mostly just limited edition and reissue stuff gets that).
Maybe they donated it to Goodwill specifically because it was valuable. There are people who do actually want to help others, especially help people who haven't had the good fortune they have had.
That's a very wise way of looking at it. Everybody else just assumes, including myself, that nobody would want to contribute something valuable. Nice perspective.
This is true! Some people do not care about money, and some people have so much money stuff like this is pocket change. Some are also more generous than others as well.
Well when you just inherited dads HOUSE, be nice.👍 (They probably kept the shiny 1982 Hondo. lol)
The comment 4 up from this one tells the dark truth about goodwill.
More of the money would have gone to helping people in need if it was sold elsewhere and 100% of the money donated to a food bank or Salvation Army. Goodwill is a for profit business that sells discounted used clothes etc..
Goodwill owner is a millionaire. Imagine having a store where everyone just gives you your inventory.
But they give people jobs. Minimum wage jobs. And lots of Goodwills get their labor from people on probation working public servie hours.
He's a Willionaire 😁
What most people don't realize is Goodwill is a for profit company.
Matt Syverson the Paperback Rocker goodwill abuses handicapped workers
Being a millionaire is not in itself a horrible thing. There are plenty of millionaires who are doing far worse things in the world than operating a chain of stores like Goodwill.
Amazing find
GR8 video as always!!
Whenever i see a new video pop up i just immediately click them i love this channel
Ahhh the Goodwill story. I had the grace of finding a 90's Fernandez Jazz Bass in the store. I found it buried under a stack of Rock Band controllers. It had no strings, one bridge saddle (bent), the G-string tuner was frozen, pickup foam was rotted out and the electronics needed cleaning. Along with a good setup it was the best $35 dollars that I spent there.
Aren't they spelt "Fernandes" with an "s"? Or is Fernandez a different brand?
@@terrypussypower Yeah, just mis-typed it.
@@blackdogsheep5631 Yeah, I thought so.
"Fender Bullet strings" I used those when I was a teen, mostly because they were the only thing I could afford.
My fingertips start aching when I recall how fast those strings started to rust, that really nasty skin cutting black oxidation.
To me: the wear and tear on that guitar tells a wonderful story. 😯
Had my T60 for nearly 20 yrs, and they are GREAT American made guitars, still the best axe this pro has ever played!
I emailed you the link for this one.. So awesome to see you made a video about it!
Damn the title got me hyped for this one
YOU ARE SO AWESOME. Former soundboard and guitar 🎸 tech. -Gonzo.
i would fix the bass side tuners, and make sure the set-up was good, and rip! lol, this is a beauty.
That guitar looks loved
Good find Trog! I tell my son all the time that I'm going to find a 1964 jazz bass in someones garbage , been saying it for two years now,hasn't happened yet but it will ,lol
Matthew Scott bought this very guitar, boy were you wrong. All original baby! Besides the tuners and pick guard
I found an Aria A553 on Goodwill for $171 + shipping. Now, this is a 1970 ultra-fine wood classical with flame Maple sides and back and a solid cedar or spruce top. I missed the sale by 5 months . . . Now, you may not be impressed, but if you ever played one of these it ranks up there with fine concert level classicals costing over $1000. What the Maple does to the sound!!!! I can't say enough about the tone, the volume, and sustain.
This one looked in perfect condition . . . the one I found at a flea market for $190 last year required the soundboard refinished (taught myself French Polishing just so the work was an upgrade) . . . so, yes, you can find awesome guitars on Goodwill.
Nice!🎸
I've seen many guitars sell for thousands on Goodwill. Both acoustics and electrics. If you watch the website every day you'd be surprised what you see. I've bought several guitars that have turned out to be very good deals. My favorite is a 1964 Silvertone(Sears & Roebuck), made in Japan acoustic that is in excellent condition and sounds unbelievable. I've had a couple friends offer me a nice profit on the $40 I paid for it.
Now we need a garage sale series.
That's so sick😮
Great!
I've been looking at this guitar for the past 4 days and had the same reaction.
That’s the exact type of vintage guitar I want, I’d change the tuners, output jack etc sort the crack and play the hell out of it with no fear
Nice find. Our Good Will is clothes an some furniture. Enjoyed your show always. Ron in Newburgh NY
I would love to see you review the Fender heartfield rr9. Its a really wierd guitar but really love playing it!
Those Peavey guitars are vastly underrated, IMO.
The Fender Talon was Fender's attempt at the 'Super strat' concept that hit the scene in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. I remember seeing advertisements for them in guitar magazines back around that period.
I saw that on goodwill! Crazy!
without musicians there wouldn't be guitars, without speculators there wouldn't be a guitar market......truly true !!!
I bet it plays great, general clean and new set of 10s plug in to old fender or other vintage amp, look out!. I have it's brother a 58 country western acoustic in fair shape. Sounds amazing. Z.K.
The Fender Heartfield was Fender's attempt at making an Ibanez RG which were very popular in the '89 to '92 period. I bought my Heartfield Talon new in 1991. The Fenders were made in the same factory in Japan as the RG. I have both and there is very little difference between the two.
I just bought one of the better epiphone SGs for 40! Im on my way now to get a barely used 57/66 EMG set for 50! got it all on my local offerup baby!
Damn.. I want that P90s Gibson Les Paul
Saw that posted up a couple days ago. Bidding went nuts.
You can still get deals on Shopgoodwill, but it is much harder since you started talking about it! (But i get it! LOL.) I've been out bid many times since your last video, lol. But I've pulled a number of guitars off it. Best deal recently was a 1982 Sam Dimas era DiMarzio branded strat (Neck/body) that was NOS. (Dimarzio had Charvel and Esp and others make fantastic guitar parts in the 80's, sorta like Warmoth today.) Got it for about 1/2 of what some people sell a beat up DiMarzio neck alone for. And this was nos. Never even had a pickguard screwed to it. Pulled a stickered up no-brand 70's japanese strat for cheap a month or so ago that had 70's USA fender parts on it and a vintage Dimarzio SDS-1. The tremolo alone is worth more than I paid for the guitar. But the deals are on the off track stuff. Or in the parts. Not your Fenders and Gibsons, but like the Univox bass you passed over last time. Use to be the real deals were on the super expensive guitars. As people didn't seem to have the cash or want to spend $1000 at goodwill, even if the guitar was worth $2000. But they were happy to pay- or more often, overpay, on the mid range stuff. Many times I was like, "Doh! If I had the money I could have double or tripled it on that one!" But that is no longer the case it seems.
Austin, it's not just guitars that sell for more than their worth on Goodwill, it's everything. Vinyl records, audio equipment, comic books...literally everything. I think the reason is that people treat bidding as a game, and get a rush of adrenaline by winning the game. The same thing used to occur on eBay, before they had a ton of sellers, in the early 2000's. It's great for the seller, horrible for the guy who knows the proper retail prices, and is looking for a below retail bargain.
I buy a fair amount of Goodwill stuff at "higher than Craigslist" prices because if you hit the high bid you can get that semi-rare item shipped from 2,000 miles away without leaving your couch. Shipping is fairly good, some better than others, I had an old violin badly damaged in shipping, they refunded the full cost no problem.
The other thing I like is most of this stuff is sitting in someone's closet or garage or basement for years, and they finally get rid of it to Goodwill.Most things I buy (old electronics, musical instruments, tools) have not been modded or repairs attempted and failed, unlike what you find on Ebay.I believe I have a better chance to make it work this way.
I did buy a pretty nice MIJ acoustic guitar that had a neck relief issue visable from the auction photos. It turned out that some dunderhead put the strings in the wrong locations and had the truss rod adjusted all wrong. That one was fixed in 20 minutes and it plays great.
And yes, I'm happy that Goodwill makes out on all of us :)
Those Fenders from the 80's made in Japan the market has been going up on those they actually made a lot of good stuff in Japan from that time frame 😁😁😁😁
Well I guess I can now take the ZW epi and the yellow Strat off my watch list. Thanks for letting everyone know
earlier this month a fella posted a video having bought this guitar he seems to be happy. I hope you check it out...enjoy your channel.
I got a 1969 Gibson SG for free. Granted it was just the neck and body both me and the owner did not know what it was. He gave it to me as a tip for doing some repairs on his other guitars. Once I discovered what it was I have been finding good deals on the rest of the parts to finish it. The headstock was never cracked but the body itself was where the neck mounts and someone already did the repair. I just have to set the neck, assemble and re-fin.
Peavey T-60, yes i used to own one of those, it was a nice guitar actually, Strat/Tele tones
My wife is an avid Goodwill hunter, and a few weeks ago she brought me back a 1958 Goya classical guitar in its original case. There was also a vintage Cordova strap in the case, just like the one Johnny Cash wore in the famous finger picture. She used a 20% coupon and only paid $24.
I wish she found an electric or a steel string acoustic at least, but this guitar has all that vintage vibe, sounds amazing, and has helped me understand the appeal of a vintage guitars.
Did either of you try to tune the guitar and see if it actually holds a tune? I think you missed the obvious and got rooooked! Do either of you Play Guitar!? Greed is not a good motivator! Unless you actually play guitar all that shit means absolutely nothing! Vintage Vibe? Do I look Stupid? Tune the fucker and play it ! oh vintage vibe means you bought a piece of crap you paid too much for that you want money for! Not really feeling any vibe but the greedy unload this crap on somebody stupid vibe!
If it holds the first chord right on the the money to any Johnny cash song well it is the same type guitar
This Guitar was carved By Vlaimir Putin with a Clam shell during the Reagan Administration,Right?1
I got a Gibson 56'GA60 amp from Goodwill back in 1975 as I sat at a stoplight and looked at their window saw a small tweed amp and freaked the thing was $100 and needed a bit of TLC but the thing sounded like Link Wray blown speaker and all, we dont need no stinking fuzz box! and I still have it but it sounds more adapted to its original intent
If People born before Snowflakes had to add input all you would hear would be silenced pistols and rifles at close range! Hark!
I remember seeing this guitar on the auction site just a few weeks ago.
Back in the golden days before ebay, american pickers and reverb i used to get so many deals on awesome instruments, i bought fenders, gibsons, moogs, tube amps, synths, high end audio equipment, guitars, bass (a Peavy T-40, the twin brother to the T-60 in the video), etc. It slowly died to the point where it got ridiculous, second hand stores would jump on ebay and ask more than the asking price on the internet then i found out employees would keep the good stuff for them selfs to re-sell. I still hunt the second hand stores near my house and find good deals now and then but its rare when i find something good and its usually overpriced..
I did the same in the 70's and 80's. Made great cash, especially during college, when it was really needed. I was going to school and making better money than my Mother, Father, and Sister combined, who were all out of school and working. Needless to say, I had no student loans and tons of time to study as well. Those days are long gone.
2 weeks ago at a goodwill I had a similar experience! I was looking for some shorts when the person stocking the store (who knew me from the last time I was there and bought a bunch of crappy toy instruments) called me over and was like "Hey music man, check this out! You think this is worth anything?"
It was a Harmony H75. She wanted 15 dollars for it. Never closed a deal that fuckin fast in my life.
It's got a busted trussrod and one of the pickups is shot. But dam, I'll never get that lucky again in my LIFE.
The title momentarily made me think it was talking about a Burst. That would have been stupid insane.
Donuts to dollars you see that exact Les Paul on Reverb, either fully restored or as is.
Matthew Scott just bought this on his RUclips channel
It’s a 4000 guitar but more power to them!!
it is just a Guitar! not worth jack!
Renegade "It's just a Ferrari, not worth jack!"
Aint worth the price of a set of strings to me.
Good video
Or another option, which is what I think happens a lot. Is that if people are bidding on goodwill auctions they know it’s going to a good cause so people are more okay with paying more than something is worth because anything more than it’s worth is just basically a donation. And especially if you have the money to spare I can definitely see people paying more than market value for items if the money is going to charity as opposed to if the money is going to Sweetwater or guitar center.
Wonder if it could have been Johnny Thunders that he used with the NEW YORK DOLLS. I was thinking it then you showed the little Johnny signature near the toggle switch
I love that guitar...
3:25 this is what I ask myself every time I get on the expressway
Lol
that guitar was draged by the headstock ontop of rough concreate, i would recognize that anywhere lol
You can't let high action scare you off from these listings, like you said most people that donate, dont know anything about guitar maintenance. Its most likely just a truss adjustment
I bought a few guitars off the goodwill website, but guitars tend to get the price raised quickly... and they exaggerate the shipping weight sometimes 10 times over to have you pay more for shipping. All in all, you can find some cool stuff, just expect to pay extra.
A few years ago, it wasn’t this much of a hassle...
Saw that earlier today too.
The days of pawns shop and goodwill finds are almost dust.
But one of my favorite finds is something much more sublime.....I paid $80 for a Japanese Charvel CX290. Not a top of the line guitar but man this thing has some zip! Great tones with the HSS setup, original pickups, absolutely incredible compound radius neck, and some jerk slathered it with stupid stickers and beat it up pretty bad.
But after some care and love, that cheap Charvel has been my "go to" for many years now on the road and at home!
You can say that again. Back in the days before the Internet, a college buddy and I would go out pawn store hopping for a 50 mile radius every other weekend, and we'd usually find 4 or 5 complete steals. We paid our way through college fixing them and selling them. At that time and only until very recently, I only played classical guitar, so I had no problem just selling them for a good profit to local guitarist.
Another thing that really helped me financially back then was purchasing vintage electronics, repairing and refurbishing it, and selling it at a local auction. Those days are gone as well.
About the only thing you find on good will's site (these days) is pure garbage, and if anything decent shows up, it goes through the roof in a hurry, and it's not even worth bidding on, actually. These days, the best deals are at garage sales, flee markets, and estate sales, but even with those venues, most things are priced at or near market value. People are waking up and searching the net to see what stuff is really worth and listing the gear appropriately, especially with folks trying to get maximum value to supplement their income because of COVID-19 and the recessed economy.
These days, consider yourself *DAMN* lucky if you find a decent guitar listed for pennies on the dollar of actual value anywhere on the web or at any other venue. I gave up a few years back looking for good deals anywhere. Not worth the time nor trouble, these days.
I was on the, Go Tom, website last night, and came across a gold top custom shop, Gibson Les Paul, Pete Townshend model. have you reviewed one of these guitars yet Austin ?
There are many independently owned thrift shops around that you can find something worthwhile sometimes. At one I found a 60's Italian wah wah in chrome that was either licensed or just patterned after the original Cry Baby. It's in primo cond. and I paid 5 bucks. Also, a 60's solid state Univox 1x12 amp for $35. The one with the three inputs for organ,mic and guitar.
For a young pup who knows so much, the Trog misses the mark on occasion. That LP Special was played, manhandled, sweated over, ridden hard and put up wet for years before Trog was potty trained. Since Trog is a "non-performer" there might be some gut/emotional connection to instruments that he won't experience.
Troggy has learned the technical fine points of the collector/$$$ driven side of the guitar world. At the same time he has missed the highs and lows of the performance gauntlet. Of having to find a screw to secure the jackplate from dads workbench, just enough to hold it together for a couple of gigs..
I had the chance to play that model , very similar vintage, in primo condition 8/10, side by side with a 57 or 58 LP Std. Also in collectible condition. You would expect either of those guitars to be exceptional and yield a special experience. The Les Paul Std did exactly that. Hit all the right marks and put a smile on my mug.
The LP Special also brought the happy's BUT for me, that day, I felt I had played a special mojo guitar. Same riffs I always play, same amp, same room, but there was something extra that couldn't be denied. It's kind of why I had to comment, the memory of that rehearsal is strong. That was 5-6 years ago and the owner/trader had it at a $10K price point.
Trog keeps covering the same ground, making deals, unscrewing pickups, flipping through the pickup settings, and setting forth subjective commentary that sometimes falls short of the mark, for me of course. On the flip side, I'm not a trader/collector (except that I do tend to collect guitars for my personal GAS). Fancy ones and plain ones they have all been taken out to gigs.
It's possible someone could have paid an additional $1k for this Special and cherished every screw hole, cracked finish, and splinter for the pleasure of playing that road worn dog.
I am pretty sure the original owner did not give it away freely but someone else "Got Rid Of It" who did not know a thing about guitars.......
I was thinking the same about the strings wound around the bridge 🤔
They must have seen a bigsby when they were googling it 😂
2 guitars I wish I never got rid of
A Montaya strat. I think it was an 80/81? Woodgrain finish
And an old Ibanez which was woodgrain finished and I did a ton of pen & ink frazetta style artwork all over it
I miss them both very much😞
Change tuners and clean up alittle..id play that right now...awesome.
The wear on top of the headstock is normal from rattling around in the case.
Good point on people paying for the "I found it at Goodwill" story.
you and everybody else. the guitar world has their fingers on the pulse of every possible sale sight
The only reason why I go on the goodwill's website is because I use to have a 2005 cobra blue Fender strat. That I got in 2009 for $300.00 and it was stolen and I've been looking for a cheap one and I been also looking for my old guitar for a long time but to no a Vail
The bidding on the Goodwill guitar auctions is nuts.
Yes. They pay eBay prices for things that _don't_ have a refund policy _at all,_ and the items are _not_ tested. Plus, how do they even ship the guitars? Well, or badly?
As a player, a good neck repair is stronger than the original so that is something to actually look for.
Once the neck has broke I cannot play it anymore no matter how well the repair!It is done! time for a new guitar! Almost like playing catch with a beloved dog that has died!
this same guitar was bought by another youtube channel, and he's done a video Authenticating the guitar
where he takes a deep dive into it's parts and specs
Is this the guitar that Mathew Scott just had semi restored?
Being a guitar player and gear head I've never seen this and associated guitars with Goodwill. SUPRISED ME!!! But I get it. An item donated is an item donated.
Cool video....
It was a working guitar...no stand except for a brick wall...good find.
I read that Billy Gibbons bought his 59 Les Paul from a farmer on a ranch in West Texas for $1000
my day isnt complete till ive heard "welCOME BACK TROGLODYTES!"
There is a guy in Oklahoma who bought and restored this and is now playing it.
I once bought a winered LP Standard from '96. For about 200 dollar. Had been kept in a closet for years with a broken headstock. Was a 'clean' break. Had it fixed for 60 dollar.... People around me went mad for it.....
I sent you that link back on Sept 1st. I could NOT believe it! It sold for $5,786.00
Yes, Matt bought it and the pickup bobbins are disintegrating. His friend, a vintage guitar restoration expert is unwinding, and rewinding the pickups with new bobbins, using all possible original parts. I wonder how much it's costing him? It's still really beat up, with a headstock break (that was poorly repaired with a screw and no glue, so at least it was easy to repair correctly now). So, It will be a 58 LP that is close to original and should play decent, but it'll never be as nice as those 10- 15 K ones .