Ronnie Wood's new guitar

GuitarMonkey

Just seen RW on the X- Factor (not watching it, honest) and he was playing a kind of L5-S / Les Paul Custom hybrid.

Googling suggests that it might be the prototype of a new signature guitar, anyone know if this is so?

richardhomer

Don't know - but it looks cool (unlike us for watching the X Factor final....)

DannyP

I think they made "Customs" in the 70s.

GuitarMonkey

Not with the split diamond headstock inlay. The body binding was very deep too in those days.

guitargeek62

This one?

Philly_Q

I googled L5S and found lots of pictures of Keith Richards with a single-humbucker black one.  Very cool.

GuitarMonkey

guitargeek62;445172" said:

This one?

Yes that's the one.

Basher

I think that both Keef and Ron have used a single pickup L5S in the past.

As you say, Googling it suggests that there might be a signature model out in the future, of which the picture above is the prototype. SOme say that has three pickups but the production model will have two, according to someone on The Gear Page with a "source" at Gibson (not sure how trustworthy that is though). It certainly looks like it could be a three pickup guitar but it could also be the foreshortened image just looking like that.

Edit: have just watched said television program clip and the guitar he's using has two pickups so maybe it's another prototype.

Loobs

Bout time Ron said goodbye to that disastrous syrup, ain't it?

Loobs

Basher

Loobs said:

Bout time Ron said goodbye to that disastrous syrup, ain't it?

I think it's on some kind of timeshare contract with Jeff Beck.

richardhomer

Basher;445335" said:

Loobs said:

Bout time Ron said goodbye to that disastrous syrup, ain't it?


I think it's on some kind of timeshare contract with Jeff Beck.

This is true. They are never seen in the same room at the same time these days....

Occasionally it has a lot more product applied to it on the days it's with Steve Stevens.

Philly_Q

If Ron and Jeff are indeed syrup wearers (or sharers) - which I'm more than prepared to believe - the thing that always puzzles me is when did said hairpieces first come into use?  Seeing as both gentlemen have had the same hairstyle since about 1968 and unlike, say, Messrs Blackmore and Paice they were never photographed during periods of incipient follicular challenge.

I think of it as the irish question....

Loobs

Steve Stevens' is the utter worst.

andyoz

Ronnie's book is a great read if you want something to do over Xmas.

mudslide73

Loobs said:

Steve Stevens' is the utter worst.

I raise you Michael Angelo Batio and Andy Scott from The Sweet. 

stickyfiddle

mudslide73 said:

Loobs said:

Steve Stevens' is the utter worst.

I raise you Michael Angelo Batio and Andy Scott from The Sweet. 

I never realised they were the same person!

Majorscale

Isn't that Ann Widdecome?

Loobs

Bloody hell!!!!

usedtobe

Looks like him out of the 'confessions' films..

Loobs

At least he's smilin'