crunchee Posted April 20, 2020 Posted April 20, 2020 No affiliation: https://reverb.com/shop/guitar-house?query=roy clark
RobB Posted April 20, 2020 Posted April 20, 2020 Dang. I’d hit that Alvarez 12ver in a New York minute if I didn’t have something similar ( and cooler...) in transit.
cynic Posted April 24, 2020 Posted April 24, 2020 On 4/19/2020 at 11:40 PM, RobB said: Dang. I’d hit that Alvarez 12ver in a New York minute if I didn’t have something similar ( and cooler...) in transit. Be careful what you offer that guy....my "new" 12ver arrives today.
RobB Posted April 24, 2020 Posted April 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, cynic said: Be careful what you offer that guy....my "new" 12ver arrives today. Did you get it? It's a great deal. Those K. Yairis are solid instruments!
dhuber Posted April 24, 2020 Posted April 24, 2020 Excuse my ignorance. "Gibson Roy Clark Owned Les Paul 1952 Goldtop (1956 conversion)" What does conversion mean. I always thought a conversion was when you routed out a P-90 guitar for humbuckers but this one still has P-90's in it?
django49 Posted April 24, 2020 Posted April 24, 2020 24 minutes ago, dhuber said: Excuse my ignorance. "Gibson Roy Clark Owned Les Paul 1952 Goldtop (1956 conversion)" What does conversion mean. I always thought a conversion was when you routed out a P-90 guitar for humbuckers but this one still has P-90's in it? The original Les Paul guitars were goldtops with P-90 pickups, but came with a trapeze style tailpiece and (I understand) a different neck angle. All of which made them harder to intonate and play, to put it mildly. The 1956 model had the two piece bridge and tune-a-matic set up, like modern LPs. If I am not mistaken, there was also an interim model with a wrap tailpiece. Probably about 1954(?) The conversion consisted of replacing the hardware to convert to the more usable '56 setup.
crunchee Posted April 25, 2020 Author Posted April 25, 2020 +1! More info here from another source, with photos: http://www.sorokinguitars.com/blog/19521953-trapeze-les-paul-tailpiece-upgrade
HoboMan Posted April 25, 2020 Posted April 25, 2020 That Les Paul is cool. Seems like a decent price.
JustKid Posted April 25, 2020 Posted April 25, 2020 It seems that this 52-to-56 LP has a wrong neck. If I'm not mistaken, the face of the headstock has to have holly wood veneer, which is much lighter color than mahogany and you always see light color line going around headstock. This one clearly does not have one. No veneer This one is original 52
cynic Posted April 25, 2020 Posted April 25, 2020 Could it just be the veneer chipped off in that spot and the headstock's been touched up? That looks close enough to 0.03" to make sense.
JustKid Posted April 25, 2020 Posted April 25, 2020 It's not easy to chip off holly wood veneer. After all, that veneer piece is glued dead, not like a plywood, where the top layer can come off any time. Of course there is a possibility that it chipped off, but I'd say no. And there is something wrong with the whole headstock shape ...something is not kosher with that neck to my opinion
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