Great thread!!!!!!! 🙂
My 68 reissue Explorer…
My Fender big apple strat…
My 79 strat. Bought new by me in 1979 from Rock Bottom in Croyden…
Finally, my Les Paul
It’s a Les Paul Custom. I agonised over buying it for a couple of months. Used to go to the shop at least once a week to try it. Stopped going to the shop as it was stressing me.
So then I decided that if it was still there on my birthday it was meant to be mine and I should buy it. Went to the shop, it was gone. 🙁
Asked the shop keeper who he’d sold it to. He explained that he hadn’t sold it, it was much worse than that, it had been stolen!!! Worse still, he’d had a bunch of guitars stolen. The thieves had broken in through the roof and were making their escape with his ‘gems’ when they were caught in the act. They simply threw the guitars to the ground and ran. The Les Paul was badly damaged and the headstock had been snapped off! 🙁
He’d sent all his guitars for repair. I asked him to call me when the LP was back. Three month later I got a call. The guitar was back! Shop keeper tells me It’s good, but not perfect.I dash over…….. The neck repair was 100% there was no way you could tell it had ever been broke. The repairs to the body were brilliant. There was just one place on the binding that wasn’t perfect, but I had to have it pointed out to me.
I bought it without further delay. It’s a beautiful monster of a guitar, and I like the fact that it has a dark history. 🙂