really dig the playing. its very interesting in the best way

For a french man who likes vintage this shop seems like a paradise. Congratulations for the video, the sound and the beauty of this guitar. You’re alright to me.

You guys do great work. I mean incredible!!! Kudos to all and a Happy New Year. Sometimes It makes my heart cry to see all the equipment you profile that I used to own. To quote the Wicked Witch of the West..."oh, what a cruel world!"

Great sounding Les Paul!!

Sounds awesome. Bigsby doesn't seem to bother Waddy Watchel. Love that offset Marshall.

How is nobody commenting about such an incredible playing ?

You can tell he’s having a ball playing this one. Who wouldn’t with that gear though. 🤘

That burst made me drool!

Beautiful playing. Great sounding, looking guitar. Love the Bigsby too.

ECG has been kind enough to host me in Seattle. A few kind suggestions: perhaps looks at changing the mic to a Royer and/or 57- an SM7B is not the most flattering mic for loud guitar cabs; Run a tube screamer or similar before the front of the amp - cranked amps have a lot of lore but in truth many producers used a pedal to take the transients and eq. Cheers and nice work!

Yes we know the 1959 can rock out and sound good but it would’ve been good also to see the clean tones with a Bigsby being used in a way they could accent and show off with a Guitar really can do

Surfy licks on a LP…and it sounds magnificent

Wow!😍

I love bigsbys but I prefer them on arch tops. That said, we aren’t in the old times. If YOU want a bigsby then rock it, don’t let that be determined by some boomer in a forum from 2007. As a young and new guitar lover, I find myself liking many things that are perceived unlikeable.

@darwinsaye

2 жыл бұрын

Well… to be fair if you’re talking about how it looks, Les Paul does have an arch top (carved). If you mean hollow body arch tops specifically, I would only want one on a semi hollow with a center block to support it. I have a couple of old hollowbodys with trems and I never use them because I don’t want to stress that thin, 50 year old top wood.

At 3:20, it looks like the G-string has been strung just to the left of the notch in the saddle, and on the B string, it looks like there is an extra notch in the saddle. Can anyone explain what's going on there?

@stricknine8623

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the G and the B strings are both out of their bridge saddles..lol

Here's a little tone tip o' the day: if you peel the bar code sticker off of those repop celestions, you'll get a more authentic vintage tone!😜 I also would love to see Karl do a proper Neil Young/ Daniel Lanois style demo of this specimen.

@davidkenneth3983

2 жыл бұрын

Those plastic 50s style Jack's last 1 minute with me playing every time .

@davidkenneth3983

2 жыл бұрын

Those speakers yea what are they?

dat offset ❗️

wow

Can you guys comment on the piece of aluminum that the bigsby is screwed into? It looks like someone made an adapter that mounts to the stud holes so the screws wont have to go into the top of the guitar like a vibramate. Is that something that came from the factory or was it a one off piece someone had made to mount the bigsby to the guitar?

@siroliver1

2 жыл бұрын

Nevermind, I looked at it again and it looks like the bottom plate of a sorkin bridge that was used to shim it up for clearance over the top carve. my mistake.

Just can't get past that Bigsby. Would rather see the snake bit holes and the rest of the flames. What a beautiful guitar.

@gorgecoach

2 жыл бұрын

BIgsby makes for me. First real guitar had one, sorry I sold it...now in the late stage deciding whether to add one.

@chuckyz2

2 жыл бұрын

@@gorgecoach Right on. I feel that way about my 500 hp 68 Camaro that I had in the late 80's. We always tend to go back to our first loves.

@siroliver1

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think this one would even have a snakebite- take a look at it. Someone machined a piece of aluminum to mount into the stud holes and the screws are going into the aluminum, not the wood. It stuck out to me and I thought that was pretty cool, someone made a vibramate type adapter for this guitar way back in the 60's

@chuckyz2

2 жыл бұрын

@@siroliver1 I see the screws going into the wood. top middle of screen at 1:24

@siroliver1

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckyz2 you're right I need my eyes checked. Now I'm thinking it's a sorting bridge plate used as a shim

Bigsbys are sexy AF.

Gorgeous axe. Two things: It's the NUT and the bridge that cause most tuning problems with guitars with a "twang" bar. Keep them lubed and you're good. Second: If you want to keep that Bigsby all original, yet want that best tonality, replace it with a new Bigsby and change out the string attachment roller and the downward pressure roller with Callahams, made from cold rolled steel. Easier to string and sounds fab! Actually, I know it's sacrilege to even suggest this, but the tone will also improve with a Callaham bridge and stop tail piece, ALSO made from cold rolled steel ...

@allrequiredfields

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Interesting - what do you mean by "improved tone"? I know that a lot of people feel endless sustain is the be-all/end-all of a guitar's tonal characteristics, but I also know you dig flats, like me...

@Tonetwisters

2 жыл бұрын

@@allrequiredfields Balanced sound from string-to-string, and from bridge PUP to neck PUP. Essentially, more string vibration transferred into the body with the Callaham bridges. But "tone" is subjective, of course ...

@darwinsaye

Жыл бұрын

@Tonetwisters Break angle after the bridge makes a huge difference. I bought one of the cheapest Bigsbys with the plastic bearings in the front roller that everyone criticizes and installed it my 70s Japanese Les Paul copy. I noticed that on guitars that use the Vibramate mounting bar bolted in the tailpiece holes, it raises the Bigsby up off the body about half a centimetre and reduces the break angle. So when I put mine on, I just left the old tailpiece mounting bolts screwed down into the body and sat the Bigsby on top of those. The gap between the Bigsby and the body is not even noticeable, but it reduced the break angle of the strings between the bridge and the front roller to just a few degrees (similar to when you top-wrap your strings). No tuning problems.

Very cool, as always. Greetings from Moscow.

The bastard love child of the KeithBurst and Mick Taylor’s ‘60.

Up the hill LoL yes mountain grown or higher elevation is always going to be lighter

@9:00 first time he touch Bigsby :D

Under 100k? I would be surprised.

@anthonyc1883

2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe there'd be a snowball's chance that it would be under $100K, not even close. Probably several times that.

Non original knobs, but I still love the look of the reflectors on a faded burst.

@chuckyz2

2 жыл бұрын

They changed to those in 1960.

@jerrymorganjr

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckyz2 They changed the dye to the non fade formula first, then they changed to the reflector knobs in late 1960. A burst that still has UV sensitive dye wouldn't leave the factory with reflector knobs.

@chuckyz2

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrymorganjr It wouldn't be the first time one came with something from before. Maybe it is an early 60 that they wanted to try the first set of reflector knobs on. I mean, how much time was there between the dye change and the knob change? They look correct and authentic. Maybe an older body was pulled from the shelf that didn't get completed past the dye process. Lol. Maybe the new owner changed them when he saw the new ones coming with them. Who knows? They said it is all original save the tuners. They know a lot more about authenticating these things than me. I am just a dreamer that finds these guitars fascinating in every way. Would like to see them chime in on it.

@jerrymorganjr

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckyz2 I mean, it's definitely possible. If these are factory knobs, it's incredibly RARE! In that case, you would think Trey would have mentioned that in the video.

@chuckyz2

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrymorganjr If you are right about the dye being changed before the knobs, and they knew, they may have brought it up. But it's easy to see how it can be overlooked as most 60's have the reflectors. That Bixby is far more irritating than it maybe having the wrong knobs. If I had it, it would get snakebit immediately.

Keith Richards guitar❤

Thanks, Noodles, but I’d rather hear someone play a one note Neil Young style solo on that thing and know how to actually use that Bigsby.

May I ask how much?

@moonlight450

2 жыл бұрын

They go for 400-500k usually

@aguadasani8582

2 жыл бұрын

@@moonlight450 usd?? 500k usd????????

@moonlight450

2 жыл бұрын

@@aguadasani8582yeah 58 to 60 les Paul fetched that much

@brinsonharris9816

2 жыл бұрын

You may, but if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

@moonlight450

2 жыл бұрын

@@brinsonharris9816 i can’t even afford a regular Les Paul!😂

I’d buy that just so I could take the bigsby off. Do my bit for humanity lol

@paulcowart3174

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha yes....when buying I'm sure they said "it's not as choice it has a Bigsby" I would take it off too

Soo .. i guess im robbing the store

Too bad we couldn't hear what the guitar really sounds like. Clean is the only way to tell what the guitar itself really sounds like.

First!

Clapton original 1960 Beano les Paul std had a bigsby and Bigsby lost tone?…… ridiculous

The negative effects of a Bigsby would still play on this guitar wether it was some holy grail nonsense ..to say it wont is pure bull..

Still cramming that mic down your speakers throat? Harsh.

@anthonyc1883

2 жыл бұрын

What should be done? Back it off from the speaker a foot or so? Honest question.

@kellygrant3074

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyc1883 Anything would be better than causing it to clip out with too high sound pressure levels like these guys always seem to. Watch this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3mjx5Zud6nMm9I.html

Pause the video @3.21 and see how much the strings are out of line are are forced at ridiculous angles to get strung over the bridge saddles.. This has been installed off center!! WAKE UP TO THIS VINTAGE PROPAGANDA!!

To me, a bigsby on a Les Paul, original or not, is an egregious crime ! It goes against everything the spirit of a Les Paul stands for.

@DeeKeyLP

2 жыл бұрын

why?

@stricknine8623

2 жыл бұрын

Les pauls are beautiful guitars and in my opinion, a bigsby is hideous to look at and drags down the beauty of a Les Paul. Also, in my opinion its important that a Les Paul be a solid, hard-tail, fixed bridge guitar. I suppose this is why 99.9 percent are exactly that. I've played a couple of bigsby SG guitars through my rig and thought that it affected the tone negatively, relative to other SGs that I've played.

@DeeKeyLP

2 жыл бұрын

@@stricknine8623 might be your taste. i think it'll look cool on my Studio since there's no flamed AAA top, i think it would only add to the looks ☺️ and i think in the era of DSP a small detriment to a "tone" wouldn't make a difference

@stricknine8623

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeeKeyLP "might be your taste" Obviously it's "my taste" Every bit of this kind of stuff is subjective,...its all left up to the eyes and ears of the beholder. This should be an understood given but I even stated the words...."in my opinion" more than once.

@DeeKeyLP

2 жыл бұрын

@@stricknine8623 don't need to cling to words, mate, i understood.

Paf's are not really "powerful"