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Bargainacious Les Paul


Shaggy
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Been looking for a nice but cheap Les Paul.......

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gibson-Les-Paul-25-50-one-of-100-Flame-Tops-1978-NEW-OS_W0QQitemZ230425796171QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item35a6729e4b"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gibson-Les-Paul-25-5...=item35a6729e4b[/url]


..........I don't think this is the one :)

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My mate bought one about a year after they came out. Blinged out of existence. He got bored with it and lent it to me for a week or two. Piss-poor detailing, played like a slab of concrete strung up with spaghetti and sounded ... [i]constipated[/i]?

But it's a nice ad for Mr Gentle's shop, I suppose.

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These are pretty nice guitars. I visited Kalamazoo, and spoke to people at the kalamazoo plant and elswhere - several of the luthiers there told me that they purchased them themselves - it seems amongst the people that made them they were pretty highly regarded.

As I recall (although i'd have to check my records) the last guitar out of the Kalamazoo plant was his Les Paul 25/50.

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That's a ridiculous price. Obviously he's adding a premium for the fact that it's NOS, but it's still a ridiculous price.

Here's some 25/50 Les Pauls from dealers in the US.

[url="http://www.gbase.com/stores/gear/gearlist.aspx?gs=y&keyword=les+paul+25&tf=1&ti0=8"]http://www.gbase.com/stores/gear/gearlist....;tf=1&ti0=8[/url]

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I've got an old issue of "International Musician" from October 1980 & the dealer profile in that issue is none other than Tim Gentle.
This guitar is actually mentioned in the article & it's also in the foreground of the photo that accompanies the article.

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