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Topic: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

Does anyone know if there a new JB Gibson LP in the works?
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Re: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

Yes

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Re: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

When's the flying V model coming out?

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Re: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

CT wrote:

Hmmm... I was just watching this Youtube video and noticed that the guitar is different:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdA7EeM … re=related

Looks like a regular JB goldtop, but with a Bigsby and non-black back. Perhaps just a one-off, or... ?


No, that's Prototype #1 of the initial Gold Top release I believe... an oldie...  smile

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Re: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

Spider wrote:

Yes

Any details?

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Re: new JB Gibson Custom LP coming?

CT wrote:
Devan wrote:
CT wrote:

Hmmm... I was just watching this Youtube video and noticed that the guitar is different:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdA7EeM … re=related

Looks like a regular JB goldtop, but with a Bigsby and non-black back. Perhaps just a one-off, or... ?


No, that's Prototype #1 of the initial Gold Top release I believe... an oldie...  smile

Aaah... I didn't remember ever seeing a guitar like that.


Yeah, Joe actually gave us a gear tour before his Adelaide show and showed us THAT particular guitar.  It was hand marked on the back of the headstock as 'Prototype #1' but was actually quite different from the 300 other JBLP Gold Tops that came out.

I think the Bigsby is pretty cool, and Joe said that it came from the factory like that, but that the production ones would not include them.  Not sure why?  Possibly cost or complexity of production??  Interesting too that it did not have the black back.

You could ask why he chose to bring that one on the Asia/Oz tour instead of #052.  But at the end of the day, he could have brought out a banjo strung with rubber bands and still made it sing!  lol

JBLP Gold Top #129 - redubbed "#1 in Oz"