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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The surge of Conversions was probably in the 80s.
I would say that there is no danger whatsoever that the remaining 52/53 Les Pauls (the majority) in collections or with players will be lost as historical items other than the reversable tailpiece option.
But it was a flawed design and I am fond of pointing out that many of Les Paul's own guitars, probably most of Les Paul's own guitars, were arguably Conversions.
I would actually like a '52/'53 - not just because I'm a big Neil Young fan, but because I have discovered that one of the reasons I usually don't get on with Les Pauls is the steep neck angle - I prefer them flatter, and a '52 is the flattest of the lot.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine had a reissue one, which I almost wish I'd bought now... except that the neck was even weaker than usual behind the nut because Gibson had chosen the particular piece of wood badly - I believe it later fell off after a very minor knock, when the next owner had it.
The really interesting one for me is probably the very first Conversion of all - Marc Bolan's one. I would love to know what that really was. He always said it was a '52 - which was dismissed by a lot of people since it clearly had humbuckers, ToM and stopbar - but it had a very low neck angle, to the point the bridge was resting on the top... at least until he broke it and it was replaced with a Custom neck.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
yep it's a real scary story and I hope it works out for the buyer. We had that replica for sale not too long ago on here. It makes you wonder how many fake custom shop strats and teles are floating about?
I cannot stop myself wanting to know who the Canadian Rock Star is who thought he was buying a pristine '60 Burst for $135k. Seems a bit Reckless. :-O
(Just to be clear I have no idea who it is....)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein