Dave Scepter

Eek!.. $339.97 shipping 😳... cool guitar though 👍

Teemu Mäntysaari is a monster guitarists 🎸 😳

Hey Greg, does that Dean hardtail have a V neck profile?

Great tone coming out of those EMG's 👍

Yes, it's sold...

Pointy headstock for the win!.. a nice change "at the time" innovative shape, collaboration with Randy Rhodes and Grover Jackson, designed for heavy metal... a new classic!.. love all my pointies! 🤘😝🤘

$1,200-$1,500

Dremel tool with small sanding drum

I've done a TONS of research on this guitar... online "Japanese sites" and various Aria Pro FB groups with experts chiming in... It was a short collaboration with Gibson & Aria Pro... think "Norlin era Matsumoku Epiphones" I'm guessing about less than a dozen made? There was also another version LS-1800"VD" that came with Dimarzios https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/1981-aria-pro-ii-ls-1800-or-ls-1500-anyone-here-got-or-had-one.478518/

Yeah man, that Aria Pro II "LS-1800VP" is killer!.. I picked it up from Eli a couple of years ago... it's a pretty rare Matsumoku built guitar with a 1 piece body, 1 piece long tenon neck, thick maple top... came from the factory with Gibson Tim Shaw pickups... been meaning to do a NGD but figured no one would care about a Japanese Les Paul 🤣

Yeah, that would most definitely suck..☹️... Big Montrose fan here!... Got a couple of Montrose inspired LP's

I know some of you here have pretty deep pockets... https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/gary-moore-1961-strat-and-still-got-the-blues-les-paul-head-to-auction

FFS... just think of it as a personal project that you can sell whenever you decide to complete it, whether it be a year or 10 years from now... just escape to the garage, watch some football, Have a beer.... pull some stickers off one weekend... another weekend, fill the Kahler hole... yada, yada, yada... It's not trash, if the neck is straight and the truss rod is still working I will bet you you will see this guitar for sale in 1 to 3 years all fixed up with a vague description 🤣

I said if YOU had the skills... "someone like Murkat"... not to farm it out... Geez, fuk'n pay attention 🤣

In all honesty, if you have the skills and A LOT of time, "rubber gloves", you can remove all the stickers and paint, De-Kahlerize, put a new top on her and could make a little bit of cash out of that... retention of the 4 digit numbers is what's going to help you sell that bad boy down the road Just make sure you're current on all your shots 🤣

Too much DNA for me 🤮

Also this ^^^

Did it come this way or did you swap out the gold hardware for chrome/nickel?

It's just the difference between the brand of lacquer, thickness, temperature and the amount of exposure to UV light of the clear lacquer applied

Actually, you just missed one for sale about a month ago 😢

"Gibson reintroducing the '70s Les Paul Custom" and not a bad price either Those specs include a headstock volute, throwback finishes, and, under those, the preferred tonewood recipe of the period: a mahogany body with a three-piece maple top, ’70s profile maple neck with a ’70s profile, and an ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl block inlays... After Gibson’s move, the Les Paul went through a series of refinements before it landed on that combination, and ’70s Custom builds have since become drool-worthy vintage guitars. Randy Rhoads’ infamous Custom was a mid-’70s build. The Edge is another famous advocate for what they can do. These new Customs have five-ply top binding and three on the back, while there are 22 medium jumbo frets, a GraphTech nut, and, of course, a 24.75” scale. Tradition is maintained with an Aluminum Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stop Bar combo, Grover Rotomatic tuners with Keystone buttons, and Calibrated T-Type humbuckers hand-wired to Orange Drop capacitors. Finer details include Witch Hat knobs and a black washer with gold text for its three-way pickup selector 'poker chip'. They also come complete with diamond-shaped Posi-Lok strap locks, which are handy. For ’70s-chic looks, its bound headstock gets a mother-of-pearl Custom Split Diamond headstock inlay, and there are four gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finishes to admire. Choose from Ebony, Tobacco Burst, Wine Red, and a version with a beautiful Buttercream Top that’s sure to whip up (ahem) excitement from vintage enthusiasts. At $3,999 apiece, these nostalgic riff machines don't come cheap, but that's cheaper than their vintage and Custom Shop counterparts. “Some of the first Gibson models to come out of the new craftory were Les Paul Customs, which quickly made their way to the heavy metal pioneers and hard-rock icons of the era,” the firm says. “Gibson is proud to reintroduce the legendary Les Paul Custom 70s, making its long-awaited return to the Gibson lineup after two decades.” https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/gibson-les-paul-custom-70s-2025

Or a small piece of leather "old belt" glued to the block?

Unfortunately, that's gonna break when you least expect it to 😫 Nylon gets brittle over time, and the pressure of a brass block will snap it~

$1399+ $116

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