Sold: PRICE DROP. Maybach Lester 58

TheMarlin

Awesome guitar, sadly time for its next adventure. 

I’ve owned this guitar for a good while, maybe 18 months or so, which is a lot for me!  I honestly love this guitar, but try as hard as I might, I can’t get on with Gibson style PAFs.  In fact, of my nearly 20 guitars, this and one other have humbuckers, all the others have single coils.  And single coils is my sweet spot.   I was going to put humbuckers sized P90’s in this guitar, but I bought an LP with P90’s instead. 



it’s a 58, so has a nice bit of chunk/chub on the neck, and has excellent Amber pickups. It’s honestly pretty awesome. It’s aged, has fantastic finish checking and very light relicing, little nibbles on the headstock, very minor factory induced dings (not even through to the wood, just in the finish). 

The only damage it’s sustained in my hands is:
1/ a few marks from a guitar stand.  These will be polished out this weekend



2/ loss of a tiny flake of lacquer from the headstock. It just fell off one day. 

3/ Some fool stuck a Bigsby on it (me). 

The Bigsby was added using Vibramate mount.  And will be removed before sale. 

The Bigsby is not included in the sale. 

Anyone who has bought a guitar from me knows I keep them clean, and very well setup.  This guitar is going in for a setup on Saturday. Will get a clean and Polish ready for the new owner. 

It will also loose its Bigaby, which will be transplanted to my new LP. There should be zero marks from the Bigaby, I’ll get my guitar tech to take photos during the process for the new owner. 

Comes in an amazing carved leather effect hard case.  

Looking for £1400. Now £1300

New owner gets to chose strings, gauge, and can even talk to the guitar tech before the setup to ensure it’s to taste. 

I travel up the M4 and M40 regularly, happy to make detours to drop it off. Would rather not send by courier.  

I’m heading to Glasgow tomorrow, so act quick if you live along that route. 

Cheers for looking. 

More photos here: https://imgur.com/a/CKs0cCk

Marlin


edit. Now sold. Thanks for looking. 

TheMarlin

Replacing it, is this Gibson Custom Shop Murphy’s Lap ultra light aged 1956 Les Paul

Treated myself. https://imgur.com/a/JRHYcYK

don’t tell the wife

bobacco

That’s my kinda LP. Absolutely gorgeous and the perfect amount of relicing. Lovely! GLWTS

roberty

Great price, I love mine. I think I might slightly prefer this colour though

The best thing about factory dings is they are indistinguishable from non-factory ones :-)

TheMarlin

I should have gotten @dazzajl to photograph it for me. His photos are frikin amazing. 

dazzajl

I might have done…. Let me check. 

Just this one without the Bigsby 

TheMarlin

dazzajl said:

I might have done…. Let me check. 

Just this one without the Bigsby 

That’s why they pay you the big bucks! 

Cracking photo sir !

dazzajl

My two favourite LPs in one shot. Not the most accurate representation of colour but gives a good idea how gorgeous the top is  

roberty

Yeah it's a beauty

tomajoha

TheMarlin said:

Replacing it, is this Gibson Custom Shop Murphy’s Lap ultra light aged 1956 Les Paul

Treated myself. https://imgur.com/a/JRHYcYK

don’t tell the wife

Lovely choice that, how you finding the R6?

TheMarlin

tomajoha said:

TheMarlin said:

Replacing it, is this Gibson Custom Shop Murphy’s Lap ultra light aged 1956 Les Paul

Treated myself. https://imgur.com/a/JRHYcYK

don’t tell the wife

Lovely choice that, how you finding the R6?

I’ve always struggled with Les Paul’s, but try from time to time. The Maybach was the best i have ever tried, by a long short, but PAFS sound terrible, woolly, muddy.  I’m a single coil guy.

I bought the R6 on a whim, and it’s knocked my socks off. It sounds like a super fat Telecaster, the neck is truly excellent, as if it had been made for my hands,  pickups are ace, nexk pickup rolled back 10% with tone back 20% gives a glorious woody tone that I can noodle away with for hours - effortless. 

it plays and sustains beautifully (which I’ll ruin shortly with a Bigsby).  I’m honestly super happy with it. Yes, it’s an expensive guitar, but money is technically loosing value in the bank, and inflation is outpacing interest, so why not play with my money! It’s more fun, and these guitars generally sell, so can always get my money back relatively quickly. 

Enjoying it, very much! Honestly, adore the thing!

tomajoha

TheMarlin said:

tomajoha said:

TheMarlin said:

Replacing it, is this Gibson Custom Shop Murphy’s Lap ultra light aged 1956 Les Paul

Treated myself. https://imgur.com/a/JRHYcYK

don’t tell the wife

Lovely choice that, how you finding the R6?

I’ve always struggled with Les Paul’s, but try from time to time. The Maybach was the best i have ever tried, by a long short, but PAFS sound terrible, woolly, muddy.  I’m a single coil guy.

I bought the R6 on a whim, and it’s knocked my socks off. It sounds like a super fat Telecaster, the neck is truly excellent, as if it had been made for my hands,  pickups are ace, nexk pickup rolled back 10% with tone back 20% gives a glorious woody tone that I can noodle away with for hours - effortless. 

it plays and sustains beautifully (which I’ll ruin shortly with a Bigsby).  I’m honestly super happy with it. Yes, it’s an expensive guitar, but money is technically loosing value in the bank, and inflation is outpacing interest, so why not play with my money! It’s more fun, and these guitars generally sell, so can always get my money back relatively quickly. 

Enjoying it, very much! Honestly, adore the thing!

I have a ML and it deffo has some extra mojo, glad to hear you’re having a similar experience 

thebreeze

tomajoha said:

TheMarlin said:

tomajoha said:

TheMarlin said:

Replacing it, is this Gibson Custom Shop Murphy’s Lap ultra light aged 1956 Les Paul

Treated myself. https://imgur.com/a/JRHYcYK

don’t tell the wife

Lovely choice that, how you finding the R6?

I’ve always struggled with Les Paul’s, but try from time to time. The Maybach was the best i have ever tried, by a long short, but PAFS sound terrible, woolly, muddy.  I’m a single coil guy.

I bought the R6 on a whim, and it’s knocked my socks off. It sounds like a super fat Telecaster, the neck is truly excellent, as if it had been made for my hands,  pickups are ace, nexk pickup rolled back 10% with tone back 20% gives a glorious woody tone that I can noodle away with for hours - effortless. 

it plays and sustains beautifully (which I’ll ruin shortly with a Bigsby).  I’m honestly super happy with it. Yes, it’s an expensive guitar, but money is technically loosing value in the bank, and inflation is outpacing interest, so why not play with my money! It’s more fun, and these guitars generally sell, so can always get my money back relatively quickly. 

Enjoying it, very much! Honestly, adore the thing!

I have a ML and it deffo has some extra mojo, glad to hear you’re having a similar experience 

It really is a great guitar.  I'm not a Les Paul guy either but have tried many times and have been fortunate to own some nice ones, but that Murphy Lab R6 was easily the best.  In fact, objectively, the best guitar I've ever played.

TheMarlin

dazzajl said:

I might have done…. Let me check. 

Just this one without the Bigsby 

I always say that @dazzajl is my main guitar dealer. Two thirds of that photo is now in my house!  And much more besides!

He deals in GAS and temptations. Beware!!!
Unfortunately, he has very good taste in guitars and amps. 

Dominic

I had a Maybach and absolutely loved the sound of the Amber pickups 
That's a great guitar

Dodge

I think that's my old one.  Bit of a forum slut if so - @monkey42 sold it to me, I sold it to @DrCornelius ...

Those Amber pickups might just be the best PAFs I've ever heard.

dazzajl

Dodge said:

I think that's my old one.  Bit of a forum slut if so - @monkey42 sold it to me, I sold it to @DrCornelius ...

Those Amber pickups might just be the best PAFs I've ever heard.

Yup. Dr Con to me, me to TheMarlin 

DrCornelius

Ah if that’s my old one it’s lovely , lightweight , full of mojo and the pickups are amazing . I don’t get on with Les Pauls but that’s one of the ones I didn’t get on with the least :-)

TheMarlin

I didn’t realise it was such a well lived floozy of a guitar!

it’s had all the frets levelled, polished, and an amazing setup since I’ve had it. Plays amazingly. 

It will be reunited with its pickguard shortly. 

THR1LLHAU5

I've owned this one too. Absolute cracker. 

TheMarlin

Now £1300