I'm so glad you did the transparent dark brown on the back - it would have been a crime to cover up that beautiful mahogany grain. That's exactly what I hoped you'd do once I saw what was under the paint. And the Pelham blue metallic top was a nice choice as well.
If there was such a thing as a guitar license, whoever did that to this Gibson would probably have lost it for cruelty to guitars. Great job bringing it back!
Excellent resto, the riffs at the end I loved them; they went from sounding like King Crimson straight through to Stiff Little Fingers to my ears. Great stuff...subbed...
My brother, I am very happy that you also changed out the electronics. I certainly wouldn't trust keeping electronics from someone who did that to a guitar. You gave that girl a new life and she's gorgeous.
I don't know why I like watching this - I also sometimes buy instruments in this condition at big garage sales - it's a kind of meditation to save musical instruments
I'd love to find cheap guitars like this in garage sales - unfortunately over here, in Europe, these instruments cost FAR too much to be so careless with 😜🤣🤣 Apparently some people just have money to burn....
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire she is1st Sunday, every Month ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69?
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69? and just bought an Epiphone for restoration for 170 on ebay
There is something mesmerizing and calming in watching you turn lost causes into real instruments again. It's so sad that you couldn't show the mahogany wood grain on the face of the instrument, but you made a great alternative choice. Great work!
While typically I am not a fan of a painted body on a guitar the front was too far gone on this one to do anything else. I was glad to see you do a natural wood finish clear on the sides and back it really is a fantastic improvement what you've done to the guitar over what it looked like before you started
Its what i always say, being a musician, using drugs and think you can paint, it aint working!! Glad you restored this guitar. Personaly i think more time spend on the routered inlays, sanding etc, then it would have been almost perfect. But, 110% better then it was! Well done!
@@rpaasse6453 But did he do a great job? There are a few in here that say they also restore guitars, they say he isn't that good. He looks very talented to me but I defer to the experts.
@@Ellis-zh3uv Yeah I feel you ;) I saw the title then the opening shot and my first thought was 'why?' I hate it when people think they have it over others. News flash - they don't.
Because of damage in a house fire I completely removed the finish from a friends blonde Stratocaster down to the raw wood. Including the maple neck. Had intentions of applying new finish but we played it for quite a while and decided that we liked it that way. It's been nearly 50 years and it is still pretty much our favorite guitar. The wood has years of sweat and dirty hands and is very smooth. We like it.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If it's going to be painted anyways, why not fill the gaps around where he put in the inlays, and make it match the rest of the top's curvature? Head-scratching moment for sure.
Здравствуйте ! С интересом и с удовольствием просмотрел ВАШЕ видео . Работа и конечный результат очень впечатляют . ВАМ как Мастеру , респект ! Гитара получилась , просто загляденье , шикарная красавица с прекрасным звучанием . И играете ВЫ великолепно , браво ! 🎸🎵🎶👍👍👍
I wish I had the chance to do this. Well done. Thank you for restoring these instruments, for giving them a new life. I actually think the orgonite resin "paint job" is visually appealing, but hard to say sonically, and how much market appeal it might have had. And to think that guitar has not got a broken headstock!! May be that's the most incredible part of its story yet.
I'm on my second project bass just like that, haha...they are fun to do because you know you cannot go wrong, will always be better than they were. I relic them too, is more forgiving than bringing them back to new. Nico work and video 👍🏼 !
nice save for sure, real ncei transformation, I have a feeling that's nice player, the fingerboard is very nice and yo have reworked it to a very nice guitar now . . good job!
Glad you document the original conditions too - I actually thought that paint job was kind of cool... Hopefully it served the previous owner well with that design... but your updates are amazing too !
I get that who ever painted that guitar before you got hold of i twas going for a Jackson Pollock type thing but wow did they make a bad job of it, well done on rescuing it.
I like both sides of this restoration. I loved the original paint job. This guitar has been to see the elephant and it has earned every one of its scars. Love it. Glad to see it get a new lease on life, but I'd also love to hear the stories from its early days.
Great job bringing that abused LPJ back to life. I think you installed the bridge backwards, the screws usually are accessed from the tailpiece side of the bridge.
Holly cow thats 1 messed up Les Paul, I make guitars for a living a few things I would have done differently but you got there, I would have put a veneer on it especially since you had to plug the pick up cavity and put a lot of coats of clear on it, Gibson use up to 20 coats of nitro on their les pauls
My first thought was “maybe this was a cheap knockoff of a Les Paul.” Then I saw the serial number and was pretty convinced that it was real. I’m still flabbergasted.
@@Schmigly_Beanpole pretty sure it is a Gibson Henry Juszkiewicz era “LPJ” which stands for Les Paul Juszkiewicz, not Les Paul Junior, believe it or not! They cost $1099 new with Gibson branded gig bag. They came in satin “rubbed” finishes and had painted over unexposed body binding. They were sold in 2013 and 2014. Came in Cherry, Chocolate, Goldtop, Rubbed Trans White and Rubbed Vintage Burst. They are one of the few Gibson guitars that have not gained in value and usually sell for $800 to $900 used.
Also, personally, if I was OP I would be conflicted… do I give it the original cherry finish, replace the wood and route it for humbuckers like it was from the factory or do I do what OP did and make it my own and damn the collector value? I guess if I wanted to sell it and get to make a profit at some point I would try to get it as close as possible to original… but if I was gonna keep it and play it I would have made it a gold top, kept the P90s and make it as close to a 1956 Les Paul standard as I could. The reason being that any buyer is gonna try to deduct value based on the dad that it is not original.
Egg shell blue, it looks great and keeping the rear natural visible grain was a great decision. I'm about to do a lot of rebuilds, repairs and restorations to at least a dozen guitar and have always firmly believed even if you want your guitar to be a certain color, dying the wood so the grain patterns still show is much better than a solid color.
I am not understanding this? Why didn’t you just use some small patches to fix the buggered up pickup holes? Would have been much less work and easier to blend with the existing wood! Did it originally come with P-90s?
My shoulders hurt, just seeing that paint mounstrosity.. and the hack job on te pickup pits almost made me cry.... Not sure i like the blue top... bt all in all... great job
I actually think the original finish looked really cool. its too bad it wasn't executed and finished off a little better. your routing and plug work was a little excessive and could use some refinement but seems functionally OK. overall a nice looking resto-mod.
nice job! you refinished it and brought it back to OG. cool that you went with P90s, what type of P90s did you end up putting in there? they sound badass, sort of a honky midrange tone
Wonderful. You saved the Gibson. I would have filled the missing pieces of wood around the guitar pickups if you were just going to paint over it. But you did a great job. 😊
Honestly the paint job isn't as bad as the atrocity committed against the pickup cavity.
Nail biting moment for sure...
Sort of james Tyler style
+1000
Just looking at that made me produce a diamond in my butthole.
lmfao
I'm so glad you did the transparent dark brown on the back - it would have been a crime to cover up that beautiful mahogany grain. That's exactly what I hoped you'd do once I saw what was under the paint. And the Pelham blue metallic top was a nice choice as well.
i think the blue paint is ugly as hell
I agree think i woukd of left it the natural wood look @@TheRobJarvis
@@dalekronk496 Leaving the front natural wood was lost as an option when the previous owner butchered the pick up cutouts.
この人の復元したギターが欲しい。丁寧に扱われてて、自分も大事にしたいと思える
You didn’t rebuild that guitar, you resurrected it! Great job
Love that you didn't just make her pretty to look at, but with your meticulous soldering and wiring upgrade you made her able to sing again.
The condition you got that instrument in was an absolute atrocity. Thank you for giving it back its dignity.
おはようございます。初めてコメント致します🙇昨日初めて動画を拝見しました。復元不可能なギターを復元させる動画に見いってしまいました。感動しました。なによりもこの主旨が最高です。私の性格上たまらないですね🎉私自身、若かりし頃下手なギターをひいた思い出があったので、この工程作業から完成。そして音の再現まで最高です😆🎵🎵これからも、動画拝見させて頂きます。ご縁に感謝🎉
If there was such a thing as a guitar license, whoever did that to this Gibson would probably have lost it for cruelty to guitars. Great job bringing it back!
how would you get a guitar license
@@p4ultubehdlike the driver license maybe?
It's probably the channel owner.
Bringing it back? It sounds like a sick fucking giraffe after he filed those fret wires down to smithereens lol
見ていて気持ちの良い再生でした！ザグリの修正を木で埋めてしまうとは、、脱帽です👍
that ruined it for me. especially since you can see it through the paint xD
Excellent resto, the riffs at the end I loved them; they went from sounding like King Crimson straight through to Stiff Little Fingers to my ears. Great stuff...subbed...
My brother, I am very happy that you also changed out the electronics. I certainly wouldn't trust keeping electronics from someone who did that to a guitar. You gave that girl a new life and she's gorgeous.
Gibson electronics are a55 anyway
The saddle was facing the wrong direction pre-restoration. Glad you got it facing the right way now. Love the color.
お疲れ様でした😅
なかなか良いブルーですね。
今回もありがとうございました🎉
It never ceases to amaze me how you bring these horribly treated instruments back to life
first of all he took a normal instrument anf make it look like this to make a video content for simpletons
@@sergeyv4908 I don't think so. Where do you get your info from?
@@sergeyv4908right? That paint looked like it had been slopped on a week before the “restoration”.
What a pitty, that guitar looked glorious! Better than anything you can get from the custom shop!
I don't know why I like watching this - I also sometimes buy instruments in this condition at big garage sales - it's a kind of meditation to save musical instruments
I'd love to find cheap guitars like this in garage sales - unfortunately over here, in Europe, these instruments cost FAR too much to be so careless with 😜🤣🤣
Apparently some people just have money to burn....
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire she is1st Sunday, every Month ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69?
@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69? and just bought an Epiphone for restoration for 170 on ebay
@@claudevieaul1465 UA-cam bans my messages when I write where there are such guitars - already banned three messages
Great work - you have given that poor old, neglected and abused instrument a new lease of life, and it looks absolute gorgeous!
There is something mesmerizing and calming in watching you turn lost causes into real instruments again. It's so sad that you couldn't show the mahogany wood grain on the face of the instrument, but you made a great alternative choice. Great work!
While typically I am not a fan of a painted body on a guitar the front was too far gone on this one to do anything else. I was glad to see you do a natural wood finish clear on the sides and back it really is a fantastic improvement what you've done to the guitar over what it looked like before you started
Its what i always say, being a musician, using drugs and think you can paint, it aint working!!
Glad you restored this guitar.
Personaly i think more time spend on the routered inlays, sanding etc, then it would have been almost perfect.
But, 110% better then it was! Well done!
Ah, a critic. I always like a good critic. 😀
@@Ellis-zh3uv Critic, maybe, woodworker...yes.
But, like i said, he did a great job.
@@rpaasse6453 But did he do a great job? There are a few in here that say they also restore guitars, they say he isn't that good. He looks very talented to me but I defer to the experts.
@@Ellis-zh3uv Yeah I feel you ;) I saw the title then the opening shot and my first thought was 'why?' I hate it when people think they have it over others. News flash - they don't.
Essa cor azul não gostei mas ficou muito bom a reconstrução
Thank you for bringing this beautiful guitar back to life.
Very well done, I would never guess they were the same guitar if I was shown 2 photos side by side. Excellent work!
you took what looked like a "meteor marble" guitar finish and made it into a work of art, amazing work.
👏👏👏 🎩 Chapeaux!
Love the blue and wood look. Another very nicely restored guitar. I'd buy that one!
Great job resurrecting the guitar. its good to saw what a bit of love a broken thing can be restored and rebuild it better and stronger.
Because of damage in a house fire I completely removed the finish from a friends blonde Stratocaster down to the raw wood. Including the maple neck. Had intentions of applying new finish but we played it for quite a while and decided that we liked it that way. It's been nearly 50 years and it is still pretty much our favorite guitar. The wood has years of sweat and dirty hands and is very smooth. We like it.
Interessante o trabalho, porém ficou mal acabado em volta dos captadores. Da pra ver o ressalto da Madeira.
毒毒しい色から綺麗なボディーのギターになってギターも喜んでいるみたいですね。
お疲れ様でした。
Beautiful job on the guitar she looks and sounds amazing
I'm not a fan of blue guitars, BUT you did a fantastic job with this instrument and that color is beautiful.
You did an AMAZING job on this beautiful guitar. I was sad in the begging to see how the previous owner destroyed it. Awesome job :)
What a horror. after painting, the boundaries of the wood gluing under the pickups remained visible.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If it's going to be painted anyways, why not fill the gaps around where he put in the inlays, and make it match the rest of the top's curvature? Head-scratching moment for sure.
Love that He's playing Toe to demo the guitar. great!
At The Drive-In as well!
The state in which the former owner left this guitar was heartbreaking. It's so satisfying to see you bringing it to life again !
Nice job. It would have been interesting to hear the tone of the instrument before you remade it. Thanks and take care.
Здравствуйте ! С интересом и с удовольствием просмотрел ВАШЕ видео . Работа и конечный результат очень впечатляют . ВАМ как Мастеру , респект ! Гитара получилась , просто загляденье , шикарная красавица с прекрасным звучанием . И играете ВЫ великолепно , браво ! 🎸🎵🎶👍👍👍
I wish I had the chance to do this. Well done. Thank you for restoring these instruments, for giving them a new life.
I actually think the orgonite resin "paint job" is visually appealing, but hard to say sonically, and how much market appeal it might have had. And to think that guitar has not got a broken headstock!! May be that's the most incredible part of its story yet.
I'm on my second project bass just like that, haha...they are fun to do because you know you cannot go wrong, will always be better than they were. I relic them too, is more forgiving than bringing them back to new.
Nico work and video 👍🏼 !
One of your best rehabilitations! Your patience to fix these disaster guitars always amazes me. Well done!
Nice, but the inserts are not blended fully into the body. Should use filler and more sanding to remove those lines.
nice save for sure, real ncei transformation, I have a feeling that's nice player, the fingerboard is very nice and yo have reworked it to a very nice guitar now . . good job!
いい色ですね！かっこよくて欲しいな！毎回楽しみにみてます。at the drive in、懐かしくてついついコメントしてしまいました。
Okay as messy as this was, that guitar was some punk's baby. I really wish I knew the story behind it
Glad you document the original conditions too - I actually thought that paint job was kind of cool... Hopefully it served the previous owner well with that design... but your updates are amazing too !
Im obsessed with the finish and how it came out. I also love how you play it.
Thanks for giving this guitar a second chance
Non riesco a credere che qualcuno abbia maltrattato una Gibson in quella maniera. Complimenti per il tuo ottimo lavoro di restauro 😊
I get that who ever painted that guitar before you got hold of i twas going for a Jackson Pollock type thing but wow did they make a bad job of it, well done on rescuing it.
Stone Roses
I was speechless when I saw the guitar at the beginning of the video! Nice restoration! Just curious how old the guitar is?
I like both sides of this restoration. I loved the original paint job. This guitar has been to see the elephant and it has earned every one of its scars. Love it. Glad to see it get a new lease on life, but I'd also love to hear the stories from its early days.
You loved the original paint job?? wtf?? It wasn’t even well done
@@firefly44220 i liked it too, i didn't like the varnish
Well done! It started out as a high priced piece of junk and now the guitar looks awesome. Thanks for the video.
Great job bringing that abused LPJ back to life. I think you installed the bridge backwards, the screws usually are accessed from the tailpiece side of the bridge.
You turned a piece of junk and turned it into something beautiful really impressed with your work sir thank you for sharing
What was done to that guitar was reprehensible. What you did for that guitar was remarkable. Outstanding effort!
He did both, so…
I tuoi video sono rilassanti, ma ti faccio i complimenti per la cura che hai per tutte le tue opere.
Small tip - avoid sanding across the wood grain, especially on front facing surfaces.
I wish there was English subtitles on the products used to finish the guitar. Nice work!!!
Holly cow thats 1 messed up Les Paul, I make guitars for a living a few things I would have done differently but you got there, I would have put a veneer on it especially since you had to plug the pick up cavity and put a lot of coats of clear on it, Gibson use up to 20 coats of nitro on their les pauls
Should have weighed it before and after. Looked like an extra kilo of paint
Great job, congratulation, this is the state in wich we want to see a Les Paul...
Now that's a damn good save. Bravo and well done!
演奏されてるの、孤独の発明 leave word ...
toeですね！！！
Honestly, I think I enjoyed your play testing as much as the restoration! I like your unique musical ideas.
Its At The Drive In. Listen to more music
Aye that's what I call a transformation and the colour choice spot on
That Kyoto sound.
You Sir are a great artist! ❤❤❤ The Magnificent Guitar Doctor! 🫡🫡🫡🦸🦸🦸
Would've been cool to hear it played before and after.
Amazing work! I would have loved a gold top but the metallic blue looks stunning too!
It's a very Fender color (I think they called it Lake Placid Blue), but it's nice.
I’m with you there, I was hoping for a gold top finish. The blue is good though.
Nice recovering ❤️🩹, I would have done another color, but that’s personal preference. Nice job ya did there. Now work on your playing.
wow! Qué trabajo impresionante 👏🏽
Si no es uno de tus mejores restauraciones está cerca. Te quedó hermosa! Saludos desde Argentina
The most incredible rebuild I’ve ever seen! A masterpiece!
Wowwwe!!! Wonderful!!! Grandissimo lavoro!! Un artista!!🔝🔝
That was quite the transformation! This has been my favorite episode so far! Excellent effort, skill and craftsmanship! Good work! 👍🏾🤘🏾
Man, some people do really stupid stuff to their guitars.
My first thought was “maybe this was a cheap knockoff of a Les Paul.” Then I saw the serial number and was pretty convinced that it was real. I’m still flabbergasted.
@@Schmigly_Beanpole oh it’s real, 100%
@@danielktdoranie it makes the crazy epoxy coating much worse in context now lol
@@Schmigly_Beanpole pretty sure it is a Gibson Henry Juszkiewicz era “LPJ” which stands for Les Paul Juszkiewicz, not Les Paul Junior, believe it or not! They cost $1099 new with Gibson branded gig bag. They came in satin “rubbed” finishes and had painted over unexposed body binding. They were sold in 2013 and 2014. Came in Cherry, Chocolate, Goldtop, Rubbed Trans White and Rubbed Vintage Burst.
They are one of the few Gibson guitars that have not gained in value and usually sell for $800 to $900 used.
Also, personally, if I was OP I would be conflicted… do I give it the original cherry finish, replace the wood and route it for humbuckers like it was from the factory or do I do what OP did and make it my own and damn the collector value?
I guess if I wanted to sell it and get to make a profit at some point I would try to get it as close as possible to original… but if I was gonna keep it and play it I would have made it a gold top, kept the P90s and make it as close to a 1956 Les Paul standard as I could.
The reason being that any buyer is gonna try to deduct value based on the dad that it is not original.
Egg shell blue, it looks great and keeping the rear natural visible grain was a great decision. I'm about to do a lot of rebuilds, repairs and restorations to at least a dozen guitar and have always firmly believed even if you want your guitar to be a certain color, dying the wood so the grain patterns still show is much better than a solid color.
Amazing work as usual brother!!!
Personally, I would have gone for gold top and cream humbuckers ( the original routs were for humbuckers).
...I don't know how he got the Betty Davis knees....
I like the way you eliminated that broken circuit board
Why don't preserve the sunburst patina?
これまたヒドイ目にあったギターを見事に綺麗にしていただきありがとうございます！
It looks good and it has some character to it. I like the slight imperfections. It's a great player guitar.
Oh man, that is so nice. What it looked like before was atrocious. Great job.
I am not understanding this? Why didn’t you just use some small patches to fix the buggered up pickup holes? Would have been much less work and easier to blend with the existing wood! Did it originally come with P-90s?
freaking good video , as always , this one could be one of my favorites le the les paul looks amazing ! well done dude !
My shoulders hurt, just seeing that paint mounstrosity.. and the hack job on te pickup pits almost made me cry....
Not sure i like the blue top... bt all in all... great job
The matte pelham blue is so pretty, one of my favorite colors
That's probably the most beautiful Les Paul I've ever seen. Great job, bud.
i guess someone thought they could make it sparkle by adding clear epoxy with glitter in it....
I actually think the original finish looked really cool. its too bad it wasn't executed and finished off a little better. your routing and plug work was a little excessive and could use some refinement but seems functionally OK. overall a nice looking resto-mod.
You’re crazy
Wonderful restoration on the 🎸. Let's see you restore those 👖 next 😊
Hmmm... I really liked that previous combination of paint and glitter art work... a bit like Jackson Pollock meets 70ies Disco.
What a beautiful piece of art that your talent skills have made 👏 👌 😍 ✨ ❤
nice job! you refinished it and brought it back to OG. cool that you went with P90s, what type of P90s did you end up putting in there? they sound badass, sort of a honky midrange tone
Cant believe someone just vomited on a Gibson and went like: "Ah, killer paint job"
Restoration skills ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Playing guitar skills ⭐️
Very cool great job!! Every guitar player would love to find something like this. Thanks for sharing 👍👍
should have spent more time blending in the wood patches, they look really rough .
Ah, another critic. I see I can't go into this business with you guys watching. 😀
@@Ellis-zh3uv but hes right, you can still see the seams after paint too
Wonderful. You saved the Gibson. I would have filled the missing pieces of wood around the guitar pickups if you were just going to paint over it. But you did a great job. 😊
and it would have stuck out like a sore thumb his way you can't even tell that there was a gaping hole in that area of the Gibson
Fantastic job!!