Quote Originally Posted by The Golden Boy
I haven't seen this guitar (you know- firewall kinda stuff ), but it can't have been much of any worse than my 71 Deluxe.

It was given to me by a friend who made me promise to restore it. Every bit of hardware and electronics had been stripped from it, and the finish was stripped on the top. It used to be a goldtop, from what was left of the paint inside the pickup cavities. The best part was the neck was snapped into 3 pieces. There was no repairing it. Two of the main neck pieces were still connected by the twisted truss rod. Gibson had me send it to a place called National Guitar Repair- I don't know if they're still around- and they put a new neck on it with the original serial number. I was a poor college student at the time, so I had a buddy do the finish- the color is cool, the burst isn't too bad, but it's thicker than you'd want to imagine, and it's blistered in places. It was $180. I scavenged parts from here and there and I've had the neck reshaped- it's not too bad of a guitar all things considered...

Thats pretty cool.. My 76 Deluxe almost needed that much work! the neck was about as straight as a circle........ They removed the neck.. removed the fingerboard, made a bound fingerboard with handmade LP inlays and glued onto the repaired original neck.... Glued everything up and resprayed the neck... It looks good but the neck is extremely thick!!!! I hardly play the thing because of the thickness of the neck... since it has been a rebuilt neck i have been debating having the neck reshaped and resprayed..... Or just sell it and buy another one!

Pete Townshend used to have his LP Deluxes fixed after he smashed the hell out of them.... some of his stage guitars had 3-4 different neck breaks... He used to do a lot of the repair work himself and i imagine his techs really knew a lot of finnish touch up tricks too..

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