1959 Les Paul

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:58 pm

Guy on the MLPF is looking to sell his.Says he's had it since 1962 or 64.It was a present from his Dad.

Lucky guy. In 1964 my dad gave me a an electric guitar he bought at Western Auto,lol.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:11 pm

How much does he want for it? Will he get less because it's a plaintop?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:13 pm

I hope not, as it looks far cooler than the flamed ones.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:31 pm

Man that's awesome.

I freaking love bright plain-tops like that.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:05 am

jesus christ, that's fucking marvelous.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:48 am

I love it when these come up for sale now and then. There's only 800 something 59s so its cool when they change hands. One could easily sell one for at least $500,000

61fury · Post by **61fury** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:40 am

Your guitar makes for a nice contrast.

61fury · Post by **61fury** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:49 am

It makes me laugh until I hurt, I can't look at it any more.

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:09 am

westtexasred wrote:Guy on the MLPF is looking to sell his.Says he's had it since 1962 or 64.It was a present from his Dad.
Lucky guy. In 1964 my dad gave me a an electric guitar he bought at Western Auto,lol.

like yoours better bro.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:16 pm

Thanks what is interesting is this guys Les Paul has the same serial number (9 0381) as that of a 1959 Les Paul that is(or was) in the collection of Japanese collector Kunio Kishida the owner of Nancy Guitars in Nagoya Japan (Link)

It is also also in the Serial Burst Log (Link) so it is a real mystery that has both Les Paul forums abuzz as too whether this is for real or a hoax.

I asked the the guy who says he owns this guitar to post "Proof Of Life" photos: a picture of the guitar with his screen name on a slip of paper and a copy of todays newspaper and He posted these

This is the guitar in Kunio's Collection

This is the guitar the guy got from his dad.

I'm no Columbo but that looks like a pretty close match

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:53 pm

They look like they could be the same guitar to me. Need higher quality photos from the japanese collector though.

If you look at the edge of the guitar below the lowest control knob, at the darker outer ring on the burst, there is a dark patch in the colour. An un even bit..:

It seems it could be there on this too below the control knob on the edge of the guitar:

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:33 pm

Here are larger versions of the first pictures I posted. Look at how the saddles are aligned,factory setup? original strings?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:13 pm

it's hard to tell from the pictures but i don't think it's the same guitar. the horizontal mark below the tailpliece on the left hand side is clearly visible in all the photos except the one belonging to the japanese chap. could be wrong though, the photo's el jpeg crapola after all.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:24 pm

stewart wrote:it's hard to tell from the pictures but i don't think it's the same guitar. the horizontal mark below the tailpliece on the left hand side is clearly visible in all the photos except the one belonging to the japanese chap.

exactly. that, and the little burl under the knobs does not look the same either. and I think the seam in the top is more clearly visible on the japanese collector's guitar. on this guitar you can barely even make out the seam. I imagine quite a lot of the '59 les pauls look roughly similar but there are no visual factors here that jump out and identify these as exactly the same guitars, actually, more so the contrary.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:44 pm

i wonder if the japanese dude kept it in one of those gigs bags in the back ground, makes me nervous just thinking about it

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:49 pm

i don't think they look anything alike.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:56 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:i don't think they look anything alike.

But they do carry one important similarity: The same serial number!

Here is the thread

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/vintage ... erged.html

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:02 am

They don't look the same to me at all, and I think having the same serial number counts as a strike against this dude's story.

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