Restoring a CLASSIC Gibson Les Paul
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Watch as I take this road worn Les Paul and Fine Tune it.
Featuring the Planet Tone "1987 Sunset Boulevard" Pickup Set.
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This video was a fun watch. Plus your vocal and guitar work are just fantastic! Thanks
Thank you!
Guitar sounds fantastic! And lucas your a damn good guitar player! Congrats brother!
Thank you!
It looks and sounds amazing! You brought it back to life, nice work.Thanks for the video.
Came out very nice! Another killer vid Lucas. Nice addition to your arsenal.
Thank you!
A testimony to the quality drop-off over the years!.my 80 custom has many more hours of play and works just fine..did a re fret 7 years ago.
Love that one-piece plain top. Sounds awesome too!
I'm a sucker for a plain top!
Lucas the 1876 Sunset pickup sounds great in my LP! Sounded so good that im now looking for a bridge pickup thats in the tonal range of a seymour duncan JB. Any thoughts on what to choose?
I havent been able to find a set of planet tone pickups that i really liked until i heard the pickups in this guitar. Wish i could hear them without the compression b4 buying them. Great video, Lucas!
Thank you!
I spend an unreasonable amount of time A/B'ing between compressor on and compressor off to make sure the tone is identical and only keeping the peaks down, so if it helps, it wouldn't have sounded much different without the compressor on :P
@@LucasFowler okay, thank you Lucas for sharing this information. Im in the procdss of ordering the 1987 Sunset pickup from PT, thanks to your video!
man my brigde was colapsed the same way... i just sand the saddles with a file to correct the heights and did the top wrap to leave the preassure under the brigde
I can't believe you haven't blown up yet. Awesome work man, keep it up
I'm happy to occupy my little niche corner of UA-cam :)
It turned out perfectly. I enjoy seeing restoration projects like this. That’s a really nice looking guitar, and sounds awesome too.
Thank you!
Nice work.. those planet Tones sound great!!!
Can't go wrong with Planet Tones in my experience. I know I seem like I harp on it but boy do they do the work :)
Had to go back and check the thumbnail. Didn’t even notice the knobs, it’s just midnight now and I felt like watching a restoration video. Thanks for sharing.
Hello there! I have this same exact model, year, and finish LP Classic. Very similar top, This was like watching you work on my guitar! Picked it up used and I also replaced the pickups and tuners. Great guitar and cool video, thanks for posting! Cheers!
Nice! Thanks for commenting!
I would keep all the original parts in a bag and put the in the case. Looks awesome brother. I hope you enjoy it.
i love what you turned this gibson into sounds awesome
Love videos like these, great job.
Thank you!
Very nice job Lucas! I loved the knobs from the Strat too. :) Very sweet and cool playing too~
Sounds great, Loved the restore. The sound though exactly like a Gibson love it.
Very satisfying video. I feel like I've done a ton of work while eating breakfast. 🤗🤔😉
Man that is the best, having brekky while you watch someone else work!
Great tone! And I really like the whole look. Good job!
Thank you!
Cool song and fantastic lead break! I'm not sure how these 87' Sunset Blvd pickups slipped by my Planet Tone radar.
Very nice, she’s cook’in now !
I was stunned at the playability, a surprise to be sure- but a welcome one.
Yep. Sounds like a Paul :). Great job and fun to watch. Thanks for letting us peek over your shoulder. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Thanks for commenting and watching over said shoulder!
Hey Lucas! Really sorry to have just heard about your surgery over on Instagram man. I hope you are doing better and will heal up as soon as possible. Wanted to drop by here and see what you've been up to. It seems you've been up to a lot! Nice job on this guitar, looks and sound great!
I like them thick!!! I just about died laughing.
I'm glad someone appreciates my random sense of humor :P
Hahaha you totally got me.. I was like.. ugh wait, wait what’s he doing with those knobs!?? Nooooooo. Good one!
Wow you really tear it up on that guitar I can listen to you play for hours
Great video. Wanted more Xanadu :) It really hits home to see how much money can be saved on guitars like this when you’re so capable at the work bench. Probably paid for those new pickups by doing the work yourself.
I do luthier work professionally and I most definitely would have charged 2-3 times what the pickups cost for all the work I had to do. Plus its very rewarding to bring something non-functional back to life :)
Great job well done I really enjoyed this video sounds great good luck
My first real LP was a 01' Classic in lightburst finish, just like yours. What a great guitar! resonant, toneful, easy to play. With a pickup upgrade of your choice (SD Antiquity, Burstbuckers, Classic 57, Thornbuckers) you got a R0/G0 for 1/3 of the price. I wish the neck was a lil bit thicker but love the vintage feeling of these old Classic. Loved the vid, a delight to watch. Keep it up!.
Ah lightburst, I wondered what this color was called. Thanks for watching!
Yeah lightburst, you don't see these very often. Btw, a bit off but it would be great to see a video with your Classic and your Rectoverb playing some chunky riffs. Just sayin 😅.
@@danieln2967 I'll see what I can do about that :)
You can really make that guitar sing! Great job, Great video!
neck pick up for sure sounds the best
The middle position is King!!
Love the Blug amp 1 with the Les Paul, I have 2 of the original amp 1 love them both.
I had one of those. But a 2004. Same color and all. Loved everything about it except the stock 496R/500T hot ceramic pickups. Swapped them out for a set of Bare Knuckle Mule PAFs and it changed it for the better! Eventually traded it for something and regret it every day. Mine also had the bridge collapse.
I'm hesitant to sell anything anymore because of that exact feeling. Bareknuckle makes some killer stuff!
GREAT VIDEO, FAST SMOOTH WORK TOO BROTHER.
I appreciate it!
I have a 2003 Classic 1960 plain top in Honey Burst (I think that is the color) .... This reminds of that a lot.... I like Grovers feel and quality but normally change out the Kidney buttons for Tombstone... Not a Kidney lover .... Nice work, love the guitar
Congratulations 👏! Awesome job😮
A lot of Gibson fans go on about how amazing the 90s Les Paul classics are, but I think this era with the “snot green” inlays were still really good as well.
I know many of the guitar players from my favorite bands of the 2000s used Les Paul classics. They are pretty diverse in the range of music they play well.
Just recently did a comparison test between a new 2023 SG standard I got compared to 2007 les Paul classic, and I had to admit that I thought the classic was just much better. Better feeling neck, better crisp sound with clarity, better bite to it.
The SG is not bad at all; I just didn’t realize how much better my Classic was lol.
I have some 90's Gibsons that are really great, but this is just as good in my opinion. Mine seems to be a one piece top and a one piece back as well, which is pretty neat!
That's a keeper now. Love your videos like this. For ultimate trolling, you could have photoshopped a Fender headstock along with a Tele neck pickup to go with the mismatched knobs in the thumbnail. I do feel strongly drawn to Stanley tumblers now for some unknown reason 🤣 God bless and rock on 🎸👍
#stanley4life
Those old LP Classics are great guitars.
I can't vouch for the pickups since mine were DOA but otherwise this is a killer guitar now that it's working again! I think mine actually has one-piece back, which is cool.
You got me with those strat knobs 🤣🤣
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Terrific. Starman Jeff Bridges.
Glad you kept it pretty much the same
I have often wondered what kinds of humidity related problems guitars have that spend decades in hot, muggy places like Florida. I live a few KMs off of the Atlantic ocean in Canada, and every time the season changes or the humidity drastically rises, I have to do a complete setup to keep things how I want them. Probably 4 times a a year. I always know that humidity is starting to be an issue when I pick up a guitar in the morning after putting it away and in tune at night...only to find every string has gone sharpe do to the wood swelling. I'm sure this is a much, much bigger issue in super humid places like Florida. I went to Florida for 2 weeks about 5 years ago...and I remember that for those 2 weeks, I was never dry. I'd shower as soon as I got up...and I would never dry. haha.
Not a problem where I am.
What a beut of a player. Love the colour. Edited to add: You had to remove a lot of fret wire... you have created a wonderul fretless wonder! Careful, you might get used to that slinky feel :)
Well done…your playing was quite the kick ass👍
Thank you!
Great job! Sounds great!
Thank you!
It would have been a good video to see the guitar restoration pictured on the card. Fool me once...
Nothing like a good Les Paul. Beautiful work my friend.
And thank you for feeding my algorithm my man ❤
I keep forgetting I’m old. It seems so weird that 2002 was *checks notes* 22 years ago.
Nice job on the restoration. “Gibson fans don’t really care about tradition” 😂
Man I feel it, I constantly forget that 2013 was 11 years ago and that's how long I've been married!
I need to start wearing gloves when I level, crown and polish. My fingers are always destroyed afterward. Nice work as always sir!
I started doing that a few months ago and boy does it save me time washing hands- and it helps keep my skin from getting dried out from all the washing and chemicals.
Nice! I like the finish on her. I have always preferred lighter hued tops on Les Pauls personally. Sounds good too. I once owned a Hamer STD and rocked white Strat knobs on it for a while. People definitely made remarks about it, so I kept them on. The electronics were also from a G&L guitar and had the PTB circuit. Yes, I had G&L and Fender parts on and in a Hamer that was a copy of a Gibson. Painted with bass boat metalflake paint ala Dick Dale. I would tell the average Gibson owner to sue me if they don't like it but they either can actually afford to or they run the law firm themselves 🤣😭
That's how you do that :)
I have one that is this one's sister, same year, same color, she is perfect. The bridge is collapsed just like yours, how did you manage to get it straight? I have tried it several times but it bends again, is it reversible?
Great video. Thank you🙂
I bought a replacement bridge :P
Great video and great guitar playing !!!! Would you say that the Seymour Duncan "Saturday Night" pickups are better ? Thank you and keep posting great videos and your guitar playing.
Thank you :)
"Better" is very subjective. I think Seymour makes great stuff but I haven't tried those specifically. These pickups would be closer to something like the Alnico II Pro or Slash sets. Very sweet and vintage inspired.
I'd be curious to see the price breakdown, if you're willing to share
nice job, I have a 1990 Classic, a very early example, they are great guitars but those stock pickups are not very good. Mine has Dimarzio PAFs and PIO caps. You gave the guitar a new life!
I love bringing things back to life, it's very satisfying. Thanks!
HAHA, I just got one of these Classics that some kid did relicing on. Its the same guitar but the back is more of a dark walnut. The kid put a burn mark on it and lots of scratches trying to make a Slash guitar out of it. Other than that, the damn thing sounds great. ITs apart now, sanded, and stained. Didn't touch the back although I might darken it with a brown lacquer tint....
still have the Splawn? i have a Quickrod 100 early early model
Lucas this was a good job on this restore. You should reward yourself and buy one of those new Ibanez Iceman 420s...
I like the cut of your jib sir!
shoutout to Ibanez Weedman 420
Nice guitar looks like Slash Les Paul "Jessica"
Nice work! Very cool. (Good idea to time lapse the detail work. T/Y.) I would have done the same.
I had multiple spots where I stopped and explained things but usually when I do that people complain. Of course they also complain when I "go too fast" and don't explain so I can't win 😂
Thank you!
uff that track was really killer
Thank you! You can watch the music video here if you're so inclined:
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Holly s*it! "Classic mode" sounds like long lost and never retrieved Slash sound. What speakers, amp and setting, please? And keep with great work
Came out very nice. Is it just me or are the 1987 Sunset Boulevards not listed on their website? Any specs on these?
They are not listed yet at the time of this answer because I have the first pre-production set, but they will be listed shortly! I will add that link in the description as well.
Looks great. It appears the new bridge is aged.. did you do this or did it come that way?
Great eye there! I have aged many parts before and it's relatively easy, but in this case I did purchase a "pre-aged" gotoh bridge for this project.
Nice video! Would you comment on this Gibson vs your Greco? I find the MIJ Les Pauls nice , but the mids are higher voiced vs a good Gibson. Might have been the particular guitar I had , an old Tokai LS50. Kind regards!
Most definitely I would answer a great question like this. In my _personal_ experience, it's quite the opposite. My Grecos are very full and dark and the Gibson has more jangle and "stringy-ness", almost like a Telecaster. Of course different pickups can adjust these things a lot but overall my 70's Grecos are very thick and warm sounding compared to this Gibson and at least 2-3 other Les Paul's I've owned.
Looks beyond just a level and re-crown.
I feared it would be but I actually had enough fret left to still be playable, albeit less height than I normally like. I would say next time is a refret, but hopefully that will be a few years since this isn't going to be my daily driver.
Jake lived in Bolingbrook last year bought a few guitars from him
Is that your band playing in this? Not my kinda thing but very well done, you got a hell of a set of pipes on you man
Indeed it is, and thank you!
White shag guitars used to be based 30 minutes from me in the suburbs of Chicago.
That's quite a humidity change he's gone through :P
@@LucasFowler I’m sure he’s adjusted fine
Was that you on vocals? The song sounded like Alter Bridge and the singer like Myles Kennedy
Indeed that is me. I think it's fair to say AB is an influence on us :P
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Sick guitar! Looks like slash's "Jessica"...
It totally does, cool!
You got me:)
Sorry, one more question. We're you using alcohol on the fretboard after you pulled the tape off from the level and crowning? Couldn't tell from the video, buy that bottle looks like one for isopropyl alcohol.
Yep, it's just 70% isopropyl alcohol. Important to note, I was _very_ careful to make sure I didn't get any on the finish. Alcohol does not agree with nitrocellulose like on this Gibson so I used a gentle guitar finish cleaner for the rest of the guitar. The alcohol just helps break up that thick layer of gunk on the fretboard so I don't have to clean it up with steel wool and make a metal shavings mess.
@LucasFowler Thanks brother! Yeah, when I was younger I took some alcohol to a spot of nitrocellulose and instantly learned a valuable lesson. Now I just use Naptha and Virtuoso cleaner on anything with Nitro. Nice tip to use alcohol on the fretboard to help with cleaning.
The bridge collapsing is because of top wrapping the strings.
Did the store mention all these issues bro? Esp the pickup issue and work Fred? If not I hope they gave you some money back
I top wrapping causing that problem never occurred to me, but I can absolutely see on the tail piece where that had been done for many years.
Yes, he mentioned almost all of these things in the listing and when I found a few more issues upon receiving the guitar, he very kindly offered to let me return the guitar at his cost and refund me, or give me a partial refund. I opted for the latter because I like to fix things :P
I have dealt with him several times now and he's a real pleasure to work with.
🤘
Last week I put Jaguar knobs on my Jazzmaster. Is that allowed??
We'll need to run it by the council of armchair quarterbacks first.
Go to l p standard 89 an of course snapped off head stock at one time but had it repaired by professional in Orlando FL. I luvthis guitar but the Verner on the front of guitar is cracking an I just want the front of guitar refinished to the tobacco light it original came as COULD YOU RECOMMEND SOMEBODY AROUND CENTRAL FL
Unfortunately I'm in North Carolina so I don't know of anyone down that way. Hope you get it sorted out!
@@LucasFowler Talk about coincidence. I was born and raised in fayetteville north carolina Right beside Fort Bragg, move to Florida in 82. Just so many bars in and around Central Florida, Tampa Jacksonville, Daytona, at the time that paid pretty decent money for a pretty Decent bands And I did this until Covid hit Henceforth retirement In health reasons So in the processingoh down sizzing quite a bit But it's been a great ride Put a appreciate the info So keep rocking brother for those of that Can't anymore
I'm dying to find one in this condition at a reasonable price.
I would follow the gentleman I bought this one from on his Reverb page or Facebook. He posts a lot of guitars and I have seen many Les Pauls come through, very reasonably priced.
reverb.com/shop/whiteshag
@@LucasFowler Thank you. Good looking out.
Don’t need the music score! Otherwise Great!
I have to find ways to put my music out there! So you get the music score!
Looks like orangal slash
You lost me when the christian rock started playing.
I wouldnt have left the metal plate in the cavity with the pots wired to it..remove that crap imo..
It’s a 2007
Soooo, NOT a restoration then. You cleaned it, rewired it, and did fret-work.
I bet you're super fun at parties.
There has to be a word to describe this entire process…hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…what would you call it? It’s on the tip of my tongue………..
Oh, oh, is it restora... no... I've lost it... @@mgradiant
Blah, blah, ...
Excuse you?!
Clever ruse with the knobs....