Vintage 1963 Gibson SG/LP Standard, Player Grade.

jumping@shadows

Up for sale is an exceptionally killer sounding and playing vintage 1963 SG/LP, in beautifully road worn, but mostly original condition. 

Here’s a rough sound clip as a taster:

And another:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2ALCFvMLfa/?igsh=cmNhb3Y4bDkxOGZj

This is the most desirable George Harrison spec SG, with the fat late ‘50s style neck profile and long nickel Vibrola.

This guitar has been played TO DEATH, with the neck burnished to smooth mahogany in the cowboy positions from thousands of hours of play, and one strum will tell you why! 

It has the ubiquitous SG heel repair which was once over zealously addressed with half a dozen tiny screws (and played as such for many years!), which have since been plugged with mahogany and touched up, and there’s some evidence of one of the headstock wings being re-glued, but there’s no neck breaks and the guitar feels exceptionally solid and resonant.

Pickups are the original double black lead, purple enamel winding, PAF spec PAT No in the bridge position, and the neck is a later ‘60s PAT decal T Top, and both sound STELLAR in combination with the original Centralab harness.

The bridge is a mid ‘60s chrome ABR, and the rest of the hardware is period correct, and the guitar comes with a modern flight case.

A brand new Murphy Lab ‘64 Reissue will run to £6500, and a clean ‘63 £16-20k so this is a great opportunity to get a genuine vintage early ‘60s, original finish/parts example which is ready to gig, record and go to work! 

Price is £8750 OBO, and please PM with any questions and offers, and I’m happy to ship this anywhere this needs to get to pro packed tracked.

Thanks for looking! J@S.

bgmartinsbridge

Best looking guitar I've seen on here for a long time. 

jumping@shadows

bgmartinsbridge said:

Best looking guitar I've seen on here for a long time. 

Give the clips a listen too dude- truly a superb lump of mahogany and wire 

stickyfiddle

Strewth dude...!! 

SRD81

Wow, that is super cool!

TheMarlin

Wow, that’s a beauty!

beed84

What a warhorse of a guitar. It gives the SG a good name!

HandwrittenHero

Pedants corner entry of the day - how much a Murphy Lab costs will depend on the ageing. Eg ultra light will run you less than the £6500 used as ballpark - https://www.peachguitars.com/gibson-custom-murphy-lab-1964-sg-standard-reissue-w-maestro-cherry-red-ultra.htm?opt=45186

Near irrelevant point though. Different guitars for different people that just have the same shape. Have the free bump for a stunning sounding guitar

tomajoha

Wonderful 

tony99

I like your guitar.

TDubs

HandwrittenHero said:

Pedants corner entry of the day - how much a Murphy Lab costs will depend on the ageing. Eg ultra light will run you less than the £6500 used as ballpark - https://www.peachguitars.com/gibson-custom-murphy-lab-1964-sg-standard-reissue-w-maestro-cherry-red-ultra.htm?opt=45186

Near irrelevant point though. Different guitars for different people that just have the same shape. Have the free bump for a stunning sounding guitar

I think we can safely say this would be classed as heavy aged and probably ultra heavy aged if ML did such a thing!

Norlin4life

TDubs said:

HandwrittenHero said:

Pedants corner entry of the day - how much a Murphy Lab costs will depend on the ageing. Eg ultra light will run you less than the £6500 used as ballpark - https://www.peachguitars.com/gibson-custom-murphy-lab-1964-sg-standard-reissue-w-maestro-cherry-red-ultra.htm?opt=45186

Near irrelevant point though. Different guitars for different people that just have the same shape. Have the free bump for a stunning sounding guitar

I think we can safely say this would be classed as heavy aged and probably ultra heavy aged if ML did such a thing!

I think there is an UHA Murphy Lab

Offset

The term 'mojo' is frequently used and almost always abused, but in this case it fits this guitar like a glove.

Looks fantastic.

jumping@shadows

And sold pending payment ;-)