In case you didn’t know, Chip Taylor wrote Wild Thing (The Troggs) and Angel in the Morning and MANY other well known hits. He is also the brother of actor Jon Voight and thus is the Uncle of Angelina Jolie. Sadly, Angelina was not with him when I met Chip at his hotel in Manchester! …
This came to me for a general service before it was to be sold at auction having been signed on the headstock and body.
I got this neck break in to fix two weeks back. It is a Gibson BFG Les Paul and the break is so bad it didn’t just need glue. I needed to put in some mahogany strips to build back the missing wood before gluing. Then it had to be stained to match the original…
This Chinese Les Paul is based upon the USA Supreme model and although it looks like the real thing it is actually anything but, especially in the hardware department!! The unknown wood choice has been painted over in a very thick black paint: this can be seen when the pickups are removed. Also the pickups…
I compared this model to a Gibson Les Paul Standard 2008, the chambered body version with burst bucker pro pickups and Newtrik jack. The first thing I notice is the 2008 has thick lacquer buffed to a high gloss and the binding is not as tidy as on the Koss, so you can feel a…
The Les Paul Classic has weight relief chambers for a much lighter feel although this one is still on the heavy side.The pickups are 57 classic and hot super 57 pickups with coil splitting and a 15dB boost. The Tune-o-Matic bridge and tailpiece are high quality chrome units. The frets go over the binding like…
This guitar was called the AELITA 1 made at the Rostov-on-don factory in Russia, it was an accordion factory which is why the scratchplate and buttons look like they came off an accordian ! The Aelita guitar was named after Alexi Tolstoi’s famous science fiction heroine. She was the Queen of Mars in his novel…
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