Ive got a 58 reissue korina, but done in ebony finish (i hate clear wood finish guitars, they look like a school band instrument). Best playing/sounding guitar I've got. Absolute keeper.
@@mikemenzamusic Great news! Pleas stop by the MyLesPaul Forum Booth, and try to bring your '52. I would love to do a feature article on it. I know the members will love to see it. We have our member "boogieongtr" doing 2- '52 restorations right now, and they are getting a lot of attention! All the Best
The late Ed Roman claimed to do a repair on an original V where his best option for a clean, undetectable repair was to cut the entire body in half and replace the damaged side with a new wing that he built. The article says that the damage came from the owner's wife stepping on a cord that was plugged into the guitar..and the input jack was ripped out. I don't know what to think...If I owned a 500K guitar, I think I would rather have a repaired input jack than half of a vintage guitar. The other part of this story is that he didn't tell the owner how he repaired the guitar... So according to the late Ed Roman, this guitar is still floating around out there...and whoever owns it these days, doesn't know about this 'repair'. Ed Roman made some awesome guitars...but he was an odd guy.
Yeah, Ed's "solution" to just about everything was to cut stuff up and build a "better" version of what he had cut off because, according to him, nothing the "Corporations" were putting out were "worth a damn" and were all "imported and passed off as American made"
Critical, if you have a time machine, to go back to '59 and buy every V you can find! HTF did Gibson not see the potential in this? Yeah, it didn't sell very well but, nobody else was doing the "futuristic thing and if they should've at least let it be produced for a few more years. The best I could afford is a copy and just being able to slap that thing on my right thigh, without a strap, and belt out riffs is amazing!
Ive got the epiphone copy its a nice guitar but the hardware and pickups are kinda crappy the neck is kinda chunky but not to bad its a 3 oiece body with veneer front and back i like the black pick guard better than white this gibson is beautiful but unobtainable to most but the millionairs its a pitty ill be happy with my copy cheers !
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As a young man in about 1975, I passed up on one of those, because it was about the dearest guitar in the shop at £650. Well, that was a bad mistake!
so cool, i have a 2000's faded cherry V i bought used at GC, i love it
Ultra rare stuff. Love the white pickguard on those. Beautiful guitar.
Amazing!
Please do a video on the Explorer!
Ive got a 58 reissue korina, but done in ebony finish (i hate clear wood finish guitars, they look like a school band instrument). Best playing/sounding guitar I've got. Absolute keeper.
That's a beauty Mike. will you be at the Philly Guitar Show next week? ---Artie
Yea I’ll swing by !!
@@mikemenzamusic Great news! Pleas stop by the MyLesPaul Forum Booth, and try to bring your '52. I would love to do a feature article on it. I know the members will love to see it. We have our member "boogieongtr" doing 2- '52 restorations right now, and they are getting a lot of attention! All the Best
The late Ed Roman claimed to do a repair on an original V where his best option for a clean, undetectable repair was to cut the entire body in half and replace the damaged side with a new wing that he built. The article says that the damage came from the owner's wife stepping on a cord that was plugged into the guitar..and the input jack was ripped out. I don't know what to think...If I owned a 500K guitar, I think I would rather have a repaired input jack than half of a vintage guitar. The other part of this story is that he didn't tell the owner how he repaired the guitar... So according to the late Ed Roman, this guitar is still floating around out there...and whoever owns it these days, doesn't know about this 'repair'. Ed Roman made some awesome guitars...but he was an odd guy.
This way they can sell two “repaired” 58 flying Vs 😊
Yeah, Ed's "solution" to just about everything was to cut stuff up and build a "better" version of what he had cut off because, according to him, nothing the "Corporations" were putting out were "worth a damn" and were all "imported and passed off as American made"
The late great Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown often played an old Flying Vee. Go check him out if you don't know him.
Critical, if you have a time machine, to go back to '59 and buy every V you can find! HTF did Gibson not see the potential in this? Yeah, it didn't sell very well but, nobody else was doing the "futuristic thing and if they should've at least let it be produced for a few more years. The best I could afford is a copy and just being able to slap that thing on my right thigh, without a strap, and belt out riffs is amazing!
I played a beat down legit 58 V. It sounded killer but I didn’t care for how it played. Really needed a refret.
Joe Bonamassa has one called Amos
Fretboard wood?
Brazilian rosewood
Ive got the epiphone copy its a nice guitar but the hardware and pickups are kinda crappy the neck is kinda chunky but not to bad its a 3 oiece body with veneer front and back i like the black pick guard better than white this gibson is beautiful but unobtainable to most but the millionairs its a pitty ill be happy with my copy cheers !
c m on, yo all insane 😱😳😂
Yep it's a very copied guitar and never put it past anyone to make convincing fake and aged cases
Noodling in the bg obnoxious as hell
If it was a vintage Epiphone definitely be interested.. Gibson hell No ..