She never buys anything big for herself, and I have more than enough hardware in my gun safe, so I thought it was time.

She cried. I think I did good. She's been wanting one of these since she was 12. I sent it do my dad (he lives in Nashville and collects guitars) to check it over. We surprised her by FaceTiming him playing Happy Birthday on it.

It's a reissue '57 Les Paul Black Beauty made in 1995. This particular run came with ebony fretboards. Sweet.

FREEBIRD!! STAIRWAY!!!





She digs the case, too.

What a beautiful and special gift!

You did good!

Dang man! Ain’t you sumthin! Happy birthday to your wife.

Outstanding!

That is a great looking instrument. Nice choice.

Fine looking Lester, bet it plays as good as it looks!

Beautiful gift. Do you play as well? I wanted to teach my wife to play but she has no interest unfortunately.

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Originally posted by patw:
Beautiful gift. Do you play as well? I wanted to teach my wife to play but she has no interest unfortunately.

Hell no! Id love to learn, but haven’t taken the time.

Damn. Thats a beautiful Lester there!

Gibson makes great guitars. Pricey but there’s a certain feel and sound to them that makes them so distinctive.

I love those - but they’re heavy.

I don’t know much about guitars, but it certainly is pretty. What a wonderful gift. Nice job.

That is so cool!

My grail guitar is a Les Paul with purple sparkle flake bass boat style paint similar to the one John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls had when they played Long Way Down live on the Letterman Show.

That is gorgeous!

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Originally posted by stickman428:
That is so cool!

My grail guitar is a Les Paul with purple sparkle flake bass boat style paint similar to the one John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls had when they played Long Way Down live on the Letterman Show.

That's a Gretsch Sparkle Jet...
I have a silver one.

Is it!? Well that makes sense. I have not been able to find a Les Paul that color. HahHha

It looks a lot like a Les Paul in the performance.

The pickguard is vintage Gretsch.
The color is Amethyst. Same as the Gretsch drums.
In fact it's the same wrap for the drums applied to the top of the awesome chambered body.

The horrible quality of the video distorted the pick guard.

In this pic it looks like a Gibson pick guard.

Man, those LP Customs are boat anchors. They are so pretty, but I only ever play standing up and an 11 lbs. guitar gets heavy after while. I had a black beauty for about a year before I decided to let it go.

In the late 90’s, I worked at a guitar shop. Epiphone made a series of sparkle LP’s. I remember having gold, purple, blue, red, green and silver Hanging in the wall at one time or another. Since Epiphone generally just made Gibson copies in Korea then, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Gibson sparkle purple one, I only ever saw a silver sparkle Gibson LP.

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Originally posted by Syngin1066:
In the late 90’s, I worked at a guitar shop. Epiphone made a series of sparkle LP’s. I remember having gold, purple, blue, red, green and silver Hanging in the wall at one time or another. Since Epiphone generally just made Gibson copies in Korea then, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Gibson sparkle purple one, I only ever saw a silver sparkle Gibson LP.

That would explain the LP type pick guard. I've only ever see the purple Jets,