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Congrats Austin, this JP LP #2 is a great find, especially with all the included candy. Will this LP be a keeper? (Edit, nope, not this time) Thank You for documenting this guitar, this video is the end-all of information for this limited run instrument.
What I had read was they were going to recreate the famous double neck SG for starters. Then they were going to do some of the rest of his guitars. But they did not say which or if it would be all of his guitars. Sounded like it depended on sales of the initial two models they were recreating.
Years ago I had the same wiring mod in one of my Les Paul guitars, by far I found the individual pickup being switched to "Parallel" to be very useful. Switching a pair of pickups into "Parallel" was also nice as it gave an open/airy type of characteristic (albite also thinner sounding).
@@hkguitar1984 a lot of people think when you have higher ohms or resistance the hotter the pickup. It works the same basic principles as anything else that creates resistance. In parallel it is in effect doing the same as when you have both neck and bridge activated. It will drop the ohmage down since your putting them in parallel. In series it's the sum total of both when online. It will produce the what the two values are together. A simple math equation.
Lol, yeah it’s definitely true. I love me some Jimmy Page playing his Burst, especially live. But the early Zeppelin I & II stuff played on his 1959 Telecaster are his best tones imo. I was actually listening to “Heartbreaker” today- and it sounded more like a telecaster to me than a burst. I’m not sure what the lore is on that- whether it was actually his tele or his burst. But until today I would’ve bet money it was the burst without a question. But today, the closer I listened the more I couldn’t tell which it was. And I actually started leaning more towards it being the telecaster. What sucks is that Jimmy Page on a Telecaster doesn’t sound like anyone else on a telecaster. He sounds rocking- with none of that overly twangy treble sound you associate with the “Nashville” telecaster sound. I wonder if the top loader bridge makes that much of a difference in tone? I know hard core Telecaster aficionados don’t like the top loader bridge telecaster’s at all. But If all Telecaster’s sounded like Jimmy’s- I’d own and play a telecaster :). I’ve owned some nice tele’s over the years, but always would end up selling them eventually. My favorite tele was a 74 deluxe with the wide range humbuckers- I should’ve kept that one- but traded it around 2001 for a 1970’s Marshall JMP that never worked right. I just never bonded with a telecaster in the same way I’ve bonded with two different Stratocaster’s a (73 maple neck) & a (62 rosewood laminate board) and multiple 60’s-2000 era SG standards & juniors & a few Les Paul- Standards & Juniors
@vadenk4433 It is said that he recorded with his Tele and played live with his LP. Had WAY more options on the LP than with a Tele, but preferred to record with it as time management isn't really top of the mind. I could be 100% wrong, but it makes sense. I'm more of a heavy guitar guy. I like Explorers and loved owning em, never kept any. The best guitar I have played was the LTD KH202 (yea, the cheapest one of the ESP KH lot). It's also the only bolt-on neck with a natural oiled satin finish. Smmooooth as butter, that guitar. It had a magical Floyd Rose as well, thing just ALWAYS floated and held tune PERFECT. Alas, I don't own it anymore. Down to 6 players and 3 "project" guitars. Only 9 atm...sad, lol.
Number 2 wiring made simple to understand: Pickguard switch 1: master series/parallel; works best in middle position, turns the middle position into a giant super bucker by combining them together as one Pickguard switch 2: Out of Phase Neck/Bridge Volumes: Individual series/parallel. Sounds like a very weak humbucker, produces single coil like tones, no hum. Both coils are on, but instead of wired together they're wired separately Neck/bridge tones: individual coil splits, only one coil is on, produces single coil tones, has hum, sounds like half a humbucker
With yesterday's metal guitar, I was saying how Trog is NOT a metal guy because of his picking style, that he is a straight Rocker. This proves it, lol. This is 100% IN his wheelhouse. Lovely show tonight. Well done, Trog.
@@leviathan_is_me nah, it just seemed tentative, not necessarily light.. like someone who isnt confident which im sure he is as I have seen his playing get better over the years..... im quite likely wrong ...
Jimmy got the guitar at the drake hotel in nyc in 73 when a dealer came to his room. The thing gibson got wrong about the number 2 reissue was the black bobbin pickup, as the original has white bobbins
@@samright4661 I believe Dimarzio's Patten has passed/expired, that is how Gibson can offer double cream '57 Classic pickups. I love the look of the double cream bobbins in a Les Paul Standard.
Hi Trogly, The gizmo in the control cavity is known as a terminal block in my industry (aviation). Used for wire management, lots cleaner and lighter than individual splices.
Yeah that's what it is. they are often used as a common place. where a lot of wires come from the source then supply different circuits. there are also Buss Bars that contain fuses.
Ha ha ha, I noticed that as well. Gosh, I remember the first time I used "1-Hour Photos Processing", it was crazy, we joked about what would be next, wireless telephones! While technology has greatly advanced during my lifetime, Mankind has not.......sigh
He can't even pronounce "luthier" correctly. He has a lot of odd music knowledge blind spots. I think Austin was homeschool or had a pretty sheltered childhood.
I made that wiring for my epi, you can use the switching to increase or decrease the mids on the fly. My fav one is the middle position with a full bridge humbucker and split neck, while out of phase and in series.
If there's going to be a new Jimmy Page signature, my money is on it being his 1960 Black Beauty with all the crazy customizations. Since it was stolen years ago and only returned in 2021, now would be the time where Gibson could lay hands on the original in order to capture the specs.
I own a Jimmy Page Dragon Tele that was MIM and I love it! I would love one of these LPs and I’m looking for the right Danelectro too. As for the double neck, I’ve had 10 back surgeries so I’ll have to pass on it. Great show tonight!🎉🎉😂😂👍🏻🤙🏼
To be honest, Page isn’t my favorite guitarist, but this model is incredible to me. I would love to have this to play at my church, but I can’t afford it. I work retail. Unless God sends someone to bless me with this, I hope the next owner enjoys this amazing piece!
I love this thing. Never knew jimmy used pull pots, and those switches under the pick guard. Never had a guitar with pull pots, but wish i had the money for this. Love all the specs of it, and would love to screw around with all the different sounds you can get out of those pick ups 🤘🤘 awesome video trog.
i remember being a kid at a guitar center when the vos guitars first came out, one of the sales people was telling me about them and said “it stands for: Very Old Stuff”.
When they first came out they were very intimidating. Nobody could really get a feel for 'em. Of course Jimmie carried the same atomic weight as the planet Jupiter, so nobody I know felt comfortable with the set up. Plus there was a bigger than normal price tag. Good Vid Trog. Thanks
Hey Austin, don't quote me on this because I haven't gone and tried to look it up but I'm pretty sure that from memory and from the sounds you were getting, the switch on the pickguard is to put the two humbuckers in series with each other, rather than the usual single humbucker switching from series to parallel
I love standard 50's wiring in my guitars but have considered setting one up with the Page wiring. Honestly, the most appealing thing is the out of Phase sound at the click of a button. Might just at that mod.
So, if I'm not mistaken in my JP's LP knowledge, the gouged out version will be Jimmy's #1, and it's due to mostly him doing the work himself. So, when it went around for him to doing the mods on #2 and ask for help with Steve Hoyland it was done professionally. But, after he got all the cool settings, apparently he mostly stuck to using the phase switcher, and nothing else too much, since even for him it was gimmicky. Also, that little black blotch that's next to the selector switch seems to be how Jimmy's #2 aged. I've seen several other photos of #2, because at some point I want to re-spray mine to have that similar colour, and I noticed that all the #2 has that. It must be more because of the neck thinning/carving process he did, and the re-spray to follow; therefore a different paint was probably used hence the weird aging.
How come you didn’t mention the first release of the Jimmy Page signatures in the 90’s?!?! I used to pine for #1 and #2 in my old Musician’s Friend’s catalogs from back then. I think I still have them somewhere in a box..
Page used a Danelectro U2 for Kashmir.He used DADGAD tuning.He explains the tuning on It Might Get Loud.Also video of him playing Kashmir live w/Zeppelin.Also photos available of his guitars used on tour on stage.
Nice Trogly back to one of my personal Favorites. Standards or customs love them all. I do like the switches under the pick guard Keeps the beautiful presence of the guitar. Thanx Trogly.
He forgot to install a Piezo!! I just had a Modern Standard hand- wired from PCB and the tones from this are even better. Just imagine if the pup's were Super '74s, Trogly's playing: always digging in. I wish I could float for picking single notes like that, instead of anchoring. Jolly good show Mr. T., or as JP says - "roaring " !! Ü ♫
The bar or bridge in the control panel is basically what many electrical panels and phone manels has in them deacdea ago. These days the bar or connecting bridge in many panels are a combination of spring or screw head terminals where as most phone panels are a push down type of terminal. The electrical ones work similarly to the quick stab connections on electrical outlets. Difference being here is the bridge isnt directly connected to the main circuit. These help when your needing multiple wiring options as this guitar has .
That's actually a great spot to hide switches. Most people remove that plastic piece. I can see hiding a momentary kill switch there or a trigger for pyrotechnics like Ace Freely style. The uses are endless.
After the day we all dread when Jimmy P is no longer on this planet the mind boggles over how much his famously ENORMOUS hoard of Collections of Guitars & Amps and Stagewear and Vinyl and Tapes and Demos and Film will go for at auction!!
Walter Becker of Steely Dan estate sale, I looked at his catalog of gear for three days before I had seen enough and had to stop. It was an obscene amount of gear.
If I ever get a signature model it would be one of the Jimmy Page models. Definitely a reason to keep the pick guard on, with those switches. I'm definitely a fan of the alnico 2 neck alnico 5 bridge pickup configuration. I've got a cheap 335 copy with Seymour Duncan pickups and i love how the pickups sound. I put the alnico pro 2 in the neck and a custom custom in the bridge, which I think is alnico 5. Been thinking of doing the same thing to my nice Les Paul.
I just wired a switch in a guitar to put the coils in a humbucker in parallel rather than in series. It's a thinner sound with slightly fewer highs than a coil split, but with less hum. I think that's what the push-pull parallel/series switches do here. And the push-push parallel/series switch maybe puts that pickups themselves in series which would make it louder and duller in the middle position, I guess. So if you were to go from both pickups in series, to one pickup, to one pickup in parallel, to that one pickup split, the signal would get weaker and brighter as you went. I guess.
Salutations Austin! Very nice Les Paul! It has a beautiful top and a whole plethora of different sound options! Thanks for reviewing this instrument! Please have an excellent and awesome day! Happy Easter! ☀️✨🌎
Never has been a hero to me. Now, if you cover the Pete Townshend “numbered” LP Deluxes with the extra switches behind the tailpiece, and the DiMarzio in between the D/L pickups, I’d *REALLY* have my tongue hanging out for that!
Does anyone know where I can get those push switches that go under the pickguard. I’d like to see if a can use it as a blower switch on one of me next build’s
Page has said that he never had all the fancy wiring in one guitar. He used it all but it was gibson who put it all in one guitar. Also that was a simple bus bar in the pickup cavity. The purpose is to be able to get the wiring to the switches under the pick guard
I can't think of a more iconic guitar. Built in the 60s by him and his dad he has played it on every queen record and every queen concert ever. Same guitar.
Yeah, that’s a different JP wiring from most you can buy. Mine does not have the S/P switches for the individual HB coils. Only the S/P for the middle position
This review is painful to watch…I dreamt of getting one of these custom shop Jimmy Page Les Pauls in early 2000s. I was 16 and could never afford it then. As an adult I planned to get one but these older signatures are not only rare but cost more than they did new. I was excited to hear Gibson was making new custom shop Jimmy Page signatures but saw the $50K price tag on these and this will drive prices up even more on the older versions. At this point it’s clear I will never own a custom shop Jimmy Page model. I’m sure there will be some overpriced mass produced Epiphone and Gibson USA versions which will be less accurate and inferior in specs but I’m not gonna waste my money.
Maybe find yourself a good lp standard and have a tech mod it up to Page specs, would that be an option for you? Don’t give up. I never liked the idea of buying someone’s signature guitar anyway, mod it up and make it yours
@@randall9000 Thanks, that’s actually a great idea and what I’ll prob do if I don’t like the Gibson USA and Epiphone Page signatures. Tricky part is finding a guitar that gets the look of Jimmy’s guitar with the right color burst and level/type of flame.
I got a Cherry burst Traditional in 2018, and though I kinda wish it was AAA instead of AA, it’s still my dream guitar. The comparable one today would be the ‘50s standard. Recommend.
Page wears his guitar very low. I imagine the shaved neck helps facilitate that. The only reason I can think of why he plays that low is becausit looks cool, and the shaved neck makes it possible to access the high frets.
What's up with that serial number on the headstock. I can figure some of it out, but it looks interesting...as does the whole guitar. I think this does sound a little Fender Telecaster-like. That was Page's other "go-to'" 6-string for many years. In the studio, for example, on the first few Zeppelin albums, Page was using his Fender 12. He liked those sounds too, and if he replicate them on as many guitars as possible, the better for Mr. Jimmy.
I can't seem to find this guitar anywhere online. I'd love to own one someday, and although I probably can't afford it, I'd like to at least check prices, but everything I find googling this is just a normal non jimmy paige version. Did this have another name by chance?
Do you guys think it would be "blasphemy" to install this wiring into my 2008 Gibson LP Custom? I know the pickups are different, but I really dig the tone variations here...
It included the warranty card with the correct serial number and polaroid from the factory. That means it wasnt purchases from Guitar Center, because that stuff would have been swapped with some other guitar, for no apparent reason, and the employees will not straighten out that mess.
Trogly‼️‼️ I hate to say this, but you sound just as good as Jimmy page. Out of tune and all 🤩 just busting your chops man keep up the good work on the show.
Does this guitar really make you a better a musician? Isn’t that the purpose of playing? Is it worth the price of admission? Don’t get me wrong, it is a magnificent instrument and in the proper hands this guitar would be a show stopper.
It’s really how the instrument inspires you. So in a way, a guitar can make you a better player. When I bought my Olympic white 1962 Stratocaster in 2017 it inspired me to play it non stop for 3 years. I didn’t touch another guitar in that time. As a musician and songwriter some guitars seem to have songs in them- you can have had writers block- and then you pick up a different guitar and boom! the songs start to flow again
I guess it’s kind of like cars: nobody really needs anything more than something like a Corolla; any car will get you from point A to point B. More expensive ones are just more fun when doing so.
I would like to see you do a review on a Les Paul guitar that has been turned into a Double cut sometime if you come across one. PS. I wish you could do another review of your V2 Flying V Guitar. I would like to see you do a review of that guitar's neck now that you have a little more experience, but maybe you can repost it as a bonus for us to watch. Have a good day.
What was your favorite tone on the #2?
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Congrats Austin, this JP LP #2 is a great find, especially with all the included candy.
Will this LP be a keeper? (Edit, nope, not this time)
Thank You for documenting this guitar, this video is the end-all of information for this limited run instrument.
You should add a photo of the control cavity wiring to the Reverb listing.
Its an amazing design and build.
What I had read was they were going to recreate the famous double neck SG for starters. Then they were going to do some of the rest of his guitars. But they did not say which or if it would be all of his guitars. Sounded like it depended on sales of the initial two models they were recreating.
Years ago I had the same wiring mod in one of my Les Paul guitars, by far I found the individual pickup being switched to "Parallel" to be very useful. Switching a pair of pickups into "Parallel" was also nice as it gave an open/airy type of characteristic (albite also thinner sounding).
@@hkguitar1984 a lot of people think when you have higher ohms or resistance the hotter the pickup. It works the same basic principles as anything else that creates resistance. In parallel it is in effect doing the same as when you have both neck and bridge activated. It will drop the ohmage down since your putting them in parallel. In series it's the sum total of both when online. It will produce the what the two values are together. A simple math equation.
It’s important to note that the push pull pots and the switches were added in the 80s so they were not present during zeppelin
You know what they say, "Nothing has sold more Les Paul guitars more than Jimmy Pages telecaster." LOL.
Lol, yeah it’s definitely true. I love me some Jimmy Page playing his Burst, especially live. But the early Zeppelin I & II stuff played on his 1959 Telecaster are his best tones imo. I was actually listening to “Heartbreaker” today- and it sounded more like a telecaster to me than a burst. I’m not sure what the lore is on that- whether it was actually his tele or his burst. But until today I would’ve bet money it was the burst without a question. But today, the closer I listened the more I couldn’t tell which it was. And I actually started leaning more towards it being the telecaster. What sucks is that Jimmy Page on a Telecaster doesn’t sound like anyone else on a telecaster. He sounds rocking- with none of that overly twangy treble sound you associate with the “Nashville” telecaster sound. I wonder if the top loader bridge makes that much of a difference in tone? I know hard core Telecaster aficionados don’t like the top loader bridge telecaster’s at all. But If all Telecaster’s sounded like Jimmy’s- I’d own and play a telecaster :). I’ve owned some nice tele’s over the years, but always would end up selling them eventually. My favorite tele was a 74 deluxe with the wide range humbuckers- I should’ve kept that one- but traded it around 2001 for a 1970’s Marshall JMP that never worked right. I just never bonded with a telecaster in the same way I’ve bonded with two different Stratocaster’s a (73 maple neck) & a (62 rosewood laminate board) and multiple 60’s-2000 era SG standards & juniors & a few Les Paul- Standards & Juniors
@vadenk4433 It is said that he recorded with his Tele and played live with his LP. Had WAY more options on the LP than with a Tele, but preferred to record with it as time management isn't really top of the mind. I could be 100% wrong, but it makes sense. I'm more of a heavy guitar guy. I like Explorers and loved owning em, never kept any. The best guitar I have played was the LTD KH202 (yea, the cheapest one of the ESP KH lot). It's also the only bolt-on neck with a natural oiled satin finish. Smmooooth as butter, that guitar. It had a magical Floyd Rose as well, thing just ALWAYS floated and held tune PERFECT. Alas, I don't own it anymore. Down to 6 players and 3 "project" guitars. Only 9 atm...sad, lol.
@@vadenk4433Jimmy has stated multiple times that he recorded the entire second album with his Les Paul
@@damianpimpinella977 Yep, he did.
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Number 2 wiring made simple to understand:
Pickguard switch 1: master series/parallel; works best in middle position, turns the middle position into a giant super bucker by combining them together as one
Pickguard switch 2: Out of Phase
Neck/Bridge Volumes: Individual series/parallel. Sounds like a very weak humbucker, produces single coil like tones, no hum. Both coils are on, but instead of wired together they're wired separately
Neck/bridge tones: individual coil splits, only one coil is on, produces single coil tones, has hum, sounds like half a humbucker
Shit, how you explained in this comment is a little bit complicated. I guess it can't be made totally simple.
Sounds like a great explaination to me.
I don't usually particularly dig LP's coil split tones but these are the best I've heard them sound. Pagey is God!
With yesterday's metal guitar, I was saying how Trog is NOT a metal guy because of his picking style, that he is a straight Rocker. This proves it, lol. This is 100% IN his wheelhouse. Lovely show tonight. Well done, Trog.
and there was me thinking he seemed too scared to play it, hence not digging in properly lol
@@jameshansing5396 Nah. He has a very stiff, rigid picking style. Ironically, most metal requires a very light, almost delicate pick hand.
@@leviathan_is_me not sure you totally understood the point I was trying to make - prob my limited explanation - but fair comment.
@@jameshansing5396 I took it to mean you saw him picking to light or apprehensive. Now I'm not too sure..m
@@leviathan_is_me nah, it just seemed tentative, not necessarily light.. like someone who isnt confident which im sure he is as I have seen his playing get better over the years..... im quite likely wrong ...
another signature model mystery solved .thanks for clearing things up about the jimmy page models …. hope they make more
Jimmy got the guitar at the drake hotel in nyc in 73 when a dealer came to his room.
The thing gibson got wrong about the number 2 reissue was the black bobbin pickup, as the original has white bobbins
It's not that they got it wrong per se, it's just that DiMarzio has licensing claim on cream bobbins that Gibson never managed to get around
@@Drachot good point I forgot about that
Gibson can’t do white bobbins Demarzio owns the patten
@@samright4661 I believe Dimarzio's Patten has passed/expired, that is how Gibson can offer double cream '57 Classic pickups.
I love the look of the double cream bobbins in a Les Paul Standard.
I don't know how Dimarzio ever got away with that... Ridiculous. 🤨
ABSOLUTELY KILLER GUITAR!!!!! It would be my number one!!!
Hi Trogly,
The gizmo in the control cavity is known as a terminal block in my industry (aviation). Used for wire management, lots cleaner and lighter than individual splices.
Is it accurate or inaccurate to refer to it as tag strip? That was my first description when I saw it.
@@garydiamondguitarist They seem to be similar devices, I would say it's safe to call it either
Also known as a Buss Bars.
I really enjoy learning all the spec & details then we get to hear the Tones The 🐸 Toad is here for the long run.🐉
Thank you for finally doing this one! I've always wanted to see the inside of the backplate
11:41 it's simply a bus bar. A way to connect multiple wires.
or Terminal Strip... Whichever tickles your fancy. 🙃
Yeah that's what it is. they are often used as a common place. where a lot of wires come from the source then supply different circuits. there are also Buss Bars that contain fuses.
Polaroids? You showing how young you are Trogly. Those are just regular old 35mm photos
Ha ha ha, I noticed that as well.
Gosh, I remember the first time I used "1-Hour Photos Processing", it was crazy, we joked about what would be next, wireless telephones!
While technology has greatly advanced during my lifetime, Mankind has not.......sigh
@@hkguitar1984Jesus, I do not miss that rotten egg smell of photo development, though.
He can't even pronounce "luthier" correctly. He has a lot of odd music knowledge blind spots. I think Austin was homeschool or had a pretty sheltered childhood.
@@dimlightbulb10 I 100% agree with you, Photo Labs and the Developer Solutions would set into your clothing when working around/with it.
😂😂😂😂😂
His red double axe is sooo.....sweet ❤
I made that wiring for my epi, you can use the switching to increase or decrease the mids on the fly. My fav one is the middle position with a full bridge humbucker and split neck, while out of phase and in series.
Beautiful guitar
If there's going to be a new Jimmy Page signature, my money is on it being his 1960 Black Beauty with all the crazy customizations. Since it was stolen years ago and only returned in 2021, now would be the time where Gibson could lay hands on the original in order to capture the specs.
Will it come in its spawn version with three switches and two of the pickup covers removed though ?
Were they to do one, they better. And it better have that Bigsby.
I worked at Gibson in 2007-2008 when we did the 1st run of Page black customs with the bigsby.
It looks fabulous. I’ve always thought that is one of the most beautiful Les Pauls. But good Lord the wiring! 😱
The reason heritage cherry is one of my favorites 😍 ❤
I own a Jimmy Page Dragon Tele that was MIM and I love it! I would love one of these LPs and I’m looking for the right Danelectro too. As for the double neck, I’ve had 10 back surgeries so I’ll have to pass on it. Great show tonight!🎉🎉😂😂👍🏻🤙🏼
I love LPs with the ability to put the pickups out of phase. Some original 58 - 60 bursts came stock that way but are rare as hens teeth.
Hell yea, now that's a cool signature Les Paul
To be honest, Page isn’t my favorite guitarist, but this model is incredible to me. I would love to have this to play at my church, but I can’t afford it. I work retail. Unless God sends someone to bless me with this, I hope the next owner enjoys this amazing piece!
"Ask, and it shall be given"! 😉
God can't do that , he's too busy giving babies leukaemia .
I love this thing. Never knew jimmy used pull pots, and those switches under the pick guard. Never had a guitar with pull pots, but wish i had the money for this. Love all the specs of it, and would love to screw around with all the different sounds you can get out of those pick ups 🤘🤘 awesome video trog.
Those came after Led Zeppelin folded in 1980. Check Since I've Been Loving You from the 2007 concert where he uses the push-pulls a bit.
@@iagobroxado thank you for the info 🤘🤘 will definitely check that out
Evening all!! Trog, those aren't Polaroids lol.
i came here to say the same... lol
kodak and Agfa fotos from the 60s and 70s were a bit before trogs time.....haa....
beautiful guitar reissue from a legend. im sure its priced out the moon.
Rest assured Jimmy knew exactly what sound was for what he needed song wise.
Those coil splits and phase switchers came after Led Zeppelin, for sure.
I put amber switch tips on all my LesPauls🎸It's guaranteed to make me a RockStar👍🏾😁🤳
Such a beautiful finish.
i remember being a kid at a guitar center when the vos guitars first came out, one of the sales people was telling me about them and said “it stands for: Very Old Stuff”.
Vintage Original Spec
yep...he got that right then......
Two words: Option paralysis.
The only thing that would have this beat is an old BC Rich with all the switches and the onboard preamp.
When they first came out they were very intimidating. Nobody could really get a feel for 'em. Of course Jimmie carried the same atomic weight as the planet Jupiter, so nobody I know felt comfortable with the set up. Plus there was a bigger than normal price tag. Good Vid Trog. Thanks
Thumbs up for the DADGAD!
Fantastic, outstanding guitar. Incredible tones and beautiful to look at. Wish I had that kind of money.
Ehhh, the single coil sound is really, really thin.
That thing is a beast
Hey Austin, don't quote me on this because I haven't gone and tried to look it up but I'm pretty sure that from memory and from the sounds you were getting, the switch on the pickguard is to put the two humbuckers in series with each other, rather than the usual single humbucker switching from series to parallel
I love standard 50's wiring in my guitars but have considered setting one up with the Page wiring. Honestly, the most appealing thing is the out of Phase sound at the click of a button. Might just at that mod.
Holy moley, that is a versital and good sounding guitar!
So, if I'm not mistaken in my JP's LP knowledge, the gouged out version will be Jimmy's #1, and it's due to mostly him doing the work himself. So, when it went around for him to doing the mods on #2 and ask for help with Steve Hoyland it was done professionally. But, after he got all the cool settings, apparently he mostly stuck to using the phase switcher, and nothing else too much, since even for him it was gimmicky. Also, that little black blotch that's next to the selector switch seems to be how Jimmy's #2 aged. I've seen several other photos of #2, because at some point I want to re-spray mine to have that similar colour, and I noticed that all the #2 has that. It must be more because of the neck thinning/carving process he did, and the re-spray to follow; therefore a different paint was probably used hence the weird aging.
Kudos for Kashmir, nice touch.
Z is for late. Magnificent guitar.
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0:29 Jimmy Page, if you are not familiar…. You must be from another planet
Best lookinf guitar. Ever. I'd love to get my hands on one one day, but there's a couple more zero's in the price tag than what I can afford ahaha
How come you didn’t mention the first release of the Jimmy Page signatures in the 90’s?!?! I used to pine for #1 and #2 in my old Musician’s Friend’s catalogs from back then. I think I still have them somewhere in a box..
Best video I've seen in a long time
Page used a Danelectro U2 for Kashmir.He used DADGAD tuning.He explains the tuning on It Might Get Loud.Also video of him playing Kashmir live w/Zeppelin.Also photos available of his guitars used on tour on stage.
I have a 2022 wildwood standard with 59 underwound pickups that sounds fantastic.
Nice Trogly back to one of my personal Favorites. Standards or customs love them all. I do like the switches under the pick guard Keeps the beautiful presence of the guitar. Thanx Trogly.
He forgot to install a Piezo!!
I just had a Modern Standard hand- wired from PCB and the tones from this are even better. Just imagine if the pup's were Super '74s,
Trogly's playing: always digging in. I wish I could float for picking single notes like that, instead of anchoring. Jolly good show Mr. T., or as JP says - "roaring " !! Ü ♫
The bar or bridge in the control panel is basically what many electrical panels and phone manels has in them deacdea ago. These days the bar or connecting bridge in many panels are a combination of spring or screw head terminals where as most phone panels are a push down type of terminal. The electrical ones work similarly to the quick stab connections on electrical outlets. Difference being here is the bridge isnt directly connected to the main circuit. These help when your needing multiple wiring options as this guitar has .
You were having alot of fun with that
I get confused by the standard Les Paul wiring, I don't think I could manage that plus 4 push pulls and two extra switches.
4:57 Definitely not "Polaroids" lolol
Great work Trogmasterful.....very detailed ..love to know total hours...playing very strong...this dog HUNTS
That's actually a great spot to hide switches. Most people remove that plastic piece. I can see hiding a momentary kill switch there or a trigger for pyrotechnics like Ace Freely style. The uses are endless.
After the day we all dread when Jimmy P is no longer on this planet the mind boggles over how much his famously ENORMOUS hoard of Collections of Guitars & Amps and Stagewear and Vinyl and Tapes and Demos and Film will go for at auction!!
Walter Becker of Steely Dan estate sale, I looked at his catalog of gear for three days before I had seen enough and had to stop. It was an obscene amount of gear.
@@telefunkenyou47 Was that a Juliens Auction catalogue? They`re immense!!
If I ever get a signature model it would be one of the Jimmy Page models. Definitely a reason to keep the pick guard on, with those switches. I'm definitely a fan of the alnico 2 neck alnico 5 bridge pickup configuration. I've got a cheap 335 copy with Seymour Duncan pickups and i love how the pickups sound. I put the alnico pro 2 in the neck and a custom custom in the bridge, which I think is alnico 5. Been thinking of doing the same thing to my nice Les Paul.
The Custom Custom is alnico 2. The Custom 5 is alnico 5. The regular Custom is ceramic.
@@bucknasty69 ahh, I appreciate the correction. It's been a while since I bought them and clearly forgot some of the details.
I just wired a switch in a guitar to put the coils in a humbucker in parallel rather than in series. It's a thinner sound with slightly fewer highs than a coil split, but with less hum. I think that's what the push-pull parallel/series switches do here.
And the push-push parallel/series switch maybe puts that pickups themselves in series which would make it louder and duller in the middle position, I guess.
So if you were to go from both pickups in series, to one pickup, to one pickup in parallel, to that one pickup split, the signal would get weaker and brighter as you went. I guess.
There are only 2 Gibsons that make me go bat shit crazy…the Jimmy Page sig and the Aldo Nova…thats what I’m talking about 🤘
Did Mr page have a different pickup in the bridge ,and what was it
The series and parallel options really only make a difference in the middle position.
Salutations Austin!
Very nice Les Paul!
It has a beautiful top and a whole plethora of different sound options!
Thanks for reviewing this instrument!
Please have an excellent and awesome day!
Happy Easter!
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Love this guitar!
I love how Strat the split coils sound
Never has been a hero to me.
Now, if you cover the Pete Townshend “numbered” LP Deluxes with the extra switches behind the tailpiece, and the DiMarzio in between the D/L pickups, I’d *REALLY* have my tongue hanging out for that!
Yeah, I've never been into Led Zeppelin myself, absolutely LOVE The Who though.
Thanks for sharing. We needed to know that 😂
Those Pete Townsend Deluxes are pretty cool guitars!
No one cares 😂
That thing looks soo good though
Does anyone know where I can get those push switches that go under the pickguard. I’d like to see if a can use it as a blower switch on one of me next build’s
Apart from 1+2 and the Black Beauty, JP also played what looked like an Ox-blood LP.
Yes, i believe you are correct, it can be seen in The Song Remains the Same, particularly in Whole Lotta Love. Good call
Page has said that he never had all the fancy wiring in one guitar. He used it all but it was gibson who put it all in one guitar. Also that was a simple bus bar in the pickup cavity. The purpose is to be able to get the wiring to the switches under the pick guard
Brian May's Red of the band Queen deserves your review
Why do people like those?
@@infinidominion Amazing and unique sounds
I can't think of a more iconic guitar. Built in the 60s by him and his dad he has played it on every queen record and every queen concert ever. Same guitar.
That thing in the control cavity with all the wiring is a tag strip.
2:59 Whoa.....too many tone choices. Is there a hyperspace dip switch?🎸🤔
The push/pull series parallel is within the individual pickups, the pick guard series/parallel is within the circuit (parallel is normal).
Pretty sweet color on that top. Fwiw, as of now (3 days after your vid was uploaded) this JP LP is not showing up on your site. GLWTS.
Yeah, that’s a different JP wiring from most you can buy. Mine does not have the S/P switches for the individual HB coils. Only the S/P for the middle position
This review is painful to watch…I dreamt of getting one of these custom shop Jimmy Page Les Pauls in early 2000s. I was 16 and could never afford it then. As an adult I planned to get one but these older signatures are not only rare but cost more than they did new. I was excited to hear Gibson was making new custom shop Jimmy Page signatures but saw the $50K price tag on these and this will drive prices up even more on the older versions. At this point it’s clear I will never own a custom shop Jimmy Page model. I’m sure there will be some overpriced mass produced Epiphone and Gibson USA versions which will be less accurate and inferior in specs but I’m not gonna waste my money.
Maybe find yourself a good lp standard and have a tech mod it up to Page specs, would that be an option for you? Don’t give up. I never liked the idea of buying someone’s signature guitar anyway, mod it up and make it yours
@@randall9000 Thanks, that’s actually a great idea and what I’ll prob do if I don’t like the Gibson USA and Epiphone Page signatures. Tricky part is finding a guitar that gets the look of Jimmy’s guitar with the right color burst and level/type of flame.
@@rocktorrocks I get you. The particular model in this video is a beauty . Happy hunting I hope you get your JP LP 🍻
@@randall9000 Thanks! 🍻
I got a Cherry burst Traditional in 2018, and though I kinda wish it was AAA instead of AA, it’s still my dream guitar. The comparable one today would be the ‘50s standard. Recommend.
Doesn’t JP play Kashmir on his Dano?
Yes
He used his Number 2 to play it at Earls Court 1975 though, before using his Danelectro in subsequent years
Page wears his guitar very low. I imagine the shaved neck helps facilitate that. The only reason I can think of why he plays that low is becausit looks cool, and the shaved neck makes it possible to access the high frets.
It does indeed look cool!
The neck was already shaved before Page owned it by Joe Walsh .
As Always, Nice Work! WooF!!🐶🐶
Yea, I remember a long long time ago when you used to have to go drop off your roll of Polaroids to get developed at CVS. It was a different time then
What's up with that serial number on the headstock. I can figure some of it out, but it looks interesting...as does the whole guitar. I think this does sound a little Fender Telecaster-like. That was Page's other "go-to'" 6-string for many years. In the studio, for example, on the first few Zeppelin albums, Page was using his Fender 12. He liked those sounds too, and if he replicate them on as many guitars as possible, the better for Mr. Jimmy.
What wiring is this, with the extra switches?
Shouldn't the neck pickup be overwound on a Page?
I think a spec sheet should be included in every Guitar shipped out
Nailed the headstock
So jealous of these cool guitars.
I can’t even afford one of the basic models much less one of these fancy versions. Someday?
I can't seem to find this guitar anywhere online. I'd love to own one someday, and although I probably can't afford it, I'd like to at least check prices, but everything I find googling this is just a normal non jimmy paige version. Did this have another name by chance?
Do you guys think it would be "blasphemy" to install this wiring into my 2008 Gibson LP Custom? I know the pickups are different, but I really dig the tone variations here...
Do it!
Is it nashville bridge to ABR1 conversion or true ABR-1 with double nut?
Double thumb wheel set
Don’t understand this aged craze…I like my stuff pristine and age it myself by using it …just a preference 😻
If you want the used look, just buy a used guitar!
It included the warranty card with the correct serial number and polaroid from the factory. That means it wasnt purchases from Guitar Center, because that stuff would have been swapped with some other guitar, for no apparent reason, and the employees will not straighten out that mess.
You covered the dragon Tele. Technically a Jimmy Page signature guitar.
What are those push button switches? Where can they be bought?
Trogly‼️‼️ I hate to say this, but you sound just as good as Jimmy page. Out of tune and all 🤩 just busting your chops man keep up the good work on the show.
Im not a fan of Page, but his signsture LPs always look amazing, they put an extra effort on his signature models.
Love JP, but doesnt his #2 have a cream colored pickup in the bridge?
Oh my God. What next?
@@ChrisShortyAllen No idea what you mean?
Yes, but apparently demarzio has white bobbins trademarked or something along those lines.
I’m not a fan of push/pull pots. I’ve been using a 6 way switch and love it.
I find all that switching just confusing.
Does this guitar really make you a better a musician? Isn’t that the purpose of playing? Is it worth the price of admission? Don’t get me wrong, it is a magnificent instrument and in the proper hands this guitar would be a show stopper.
It’s really how the instrument inspires you. So in a way, a guitar can make you a better player. When I bought my Olympic white 1962 Stratocaster in 2017 it inspired me to play it non stop for 3 years. I didn’t touch another guitar in that time. As a musician and songwriter some guitars seem to have songs in them- you can have had writers block- and then you pick up a different guitar and boom! the songs start to flow again
I guess it’s kind of like cars: nobody really needs anything more than something like a Corolla; any car will get you from point A to point B. More expensive ones are just more fun when doing so.
I would like to see you do a review on a Les Paul guitar that has been turned into a Double cut sometime if you come across one.
PS. I wish you could do another review of your V2 Flying V Guitar. I would like to see you do a review of that guitar's neck now that you have a little more experience, but maybe you can repost it as a bonus for us to watch. Have a good day.