(my personal) 1968 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop

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Check also Gregor Hilden Band Live at The Luna Bar. 1968 Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop Converted to 50s Specs w/ PAFs. My personal all-time favourite guitar! This heavily modified battered bastard originally featured P-90 pickups, but was routed out to accommodate humbucker pickups. Now it is the home for an original old PAF in the neck position and an original '63 Patent Number at the bridge. The previous owner also routed weight relief chambers into the body -- not exactly an example of fine Gibson craftsmanship, but in a rather crude way: holes were drilled into the body from the back and then covered with a new bottom veneer. Actually, the veneer work is not easily detectable. Additionally, the headstock has been broken several times (expert luthier Boris Dommenget performed the final bullet-proof headstock restauration); a third pickup was routed in the middle position and refilled again; a Bigsby vibrato system was installed and removed again; several refrets -- this guitar has been through it all! The sound is just divine -- somewhere in between a Les Paul and an ES-335. The neck shape is perfect, like an original '59. And the guitar weighs in at only 3.8 kgs. The funny thing about it is that this guitar was part of a trade-in deal when I sold my original 1959 Les Paul Standard (Video) many years ago -- the '59 being the more valuable and revered guitar for most. But as soon as I picked up the goldtop, it immediately felt like "my" guitar -- and it took me only 2 seconds more to realize that it would be my main guitar for the rest of my life! This gorgeous goldtop has been featured extensively on many of my CDs and my DVD "Live at the Luna Bar" and it proudly stars the cover of my instrumental CD "Golden Voice Blues" Fotos (by Manfred Pullert -- the Nashville bridge has been replaced with an original old ABR-1 bridge since) Video1 (With original Dumble Overdrive Special ODS 100) Video2 (With original 1968 silverface / alu frame Fender Vibrolux Reverb Okko Diablo Gain+ Overdrive, Korg Pitch-Black Tuner, Amp: 1963 Fender Vibroverb (original vintage amp) www.gregorhilden.de