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Topic: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

$475,000 for a 1959 Sunburst Les Paul Standard
serial number not specified. Cowtown guitars in las vegas is selling it.

https://reverb.com/item/271830-1959-gib … d-sunburst

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

I've missed the k....thought it was a big yard sale, $475 for a gibson...i've paid more for a Squire!

My fault smile

But 0 means nothing, so it will not be that much difference!

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

LOL
I updated my post to prevent future confusion lol

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

So cool how you can see the strip of red where the pick guard used to be! Beautiful guitar

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Pretty. Pity i'm also pretty skint at the moment lol

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

yeah, Collector's Choice™ #16 1959 Les Paul "Redeye" has a kinda similar strip of red...

...but maybe it's just a shy guitar and just blush for the price they are asking for her tongue

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Sheesh! Now if I start cadging spare change on the corner....
and Joe's got like.... 6 of them?

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Crap there goes my bank account

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Tsk! Local pickup only ??

A bit far to walk from here... Think I'll skip it.....

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Even if I sold my house I wouldn't be able to afford the pickguard. There better be a whole lotta tone left in the wood for that price.

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edragoo wrote:

So cool how you can see the strip of red where the pick guard used to be! Beautiful guitar

Principal Skinner has the same thing, I guess there was a time when Joe had the pickguard off, I believe you can see it in the Dislocated Boy video during the two solos.

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Very cool! Thanks for the bit of knowledge Django! It's so crazy how much the color changes after all those years

Django2013 wrote:
edragoo wrote:

So cool how you can see the strip of red where the pick guard used to be! Beautiful guitar

Principal Skinner has the same thing, I guess there was a time when Joe had the pickguard off, I believe you can see it in the Dislocated Boy video during the two solos.

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Color changes primarily a result of the dye used in 1959. 1960 they don't fade as drastically.

Many of Gibson's 1958 to early 1960 red Sunbursts were sprayed with an ultra-violet sensitive dye. With exposure to sunlight, the red often faded making the "sunburst" an "unburst", giving the Les Paul's top a uniform yellowish-brown color. Hence the reason why 1958 to 1960 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst guitars can now be seen in a variety shades of sunbursts. The extent to which the Sunburst faded depended not just upon how much UV exposure they'd had but also when they were made. The models from 1959 to mid-1960 tend to have the red dye that fades the most. Late 1960 Les Paul Sunburst models were finished with a red dye that was more impervious to fading and are often still a bright cherry red sunburst. This finish often has a more "tomato soup" type of red to it, which I personally find less cosmetically appealing. The 1958 Sunburst Les Pauls also seem to fade a bit less than the 1959 to early 1960 models.

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

Color changes primarily a result of the dye used in 1959. 1960 they don't fade as drastically.

Many of Gibson's 1958 to early 1960 red Sunbursts were sprayed with an ultra-violet sensitive dye. With exposure to sunlight, the red often faded making the "sunburst" an "unburst", giving the Les Paul's top a uniform yellowish-brown color. Hence the reason why 1958 to 1960 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst guitars can now be seen in a variety shades of sunbursts. The extent to which the Sunburst faded depended not just upon how much UV exposure they'd had but also when they were made. The models from 1959 to mid-1960 tend to have the red dye that fades the most. Late 1960 Les Paul Sunburst models were finished with a red dye that was more impervious to fading and are often still a bright cherry red sunburst. This finish often has a more "tomato soup" type of red to it, which I personally find less cosmetically appealing. The 1958 Sunburst Les Pauls also seem to fade a bit less than the 1959 to early 1960 models.

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/lpsun.html

Well said, Have you read the piece in the back of beauty of the burst about how they sprayed the bursts, apparently they even mixed in some blue to add depth and the blue fades slower than the red, which is why some burst have the green lemon color.

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Re: 1959 Gibson Les Paul for sale on Reverb

Where's the drool smiley?! Man, I need a burst!