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One of my buddies was looking around for a Gibson Les Paul double cut, but ended up grabbing a Spirit for $500 instead. He mentioned the year, but I already forgot; I believe it was 1983. He sent me a few photos:
He agrees that those knobs are gash and plans on putting the green Klusons back on as well.

I searched for previous mentions of these here but didn't see anything, so I thought I'd share.

There's a bit more info on Wikipedia.

i dont mind the knobs as much as the pick gaurd right colour wrong shape
needs to go futher round the neck towards the cutaway imo
both me an my ol' man agree
a very nice geetar!

this guitar looks like someone built something in his garage ?

looks like a sg neck or summut on a homemade body
dunno how that would workout!
i wanna see a p90 in that
and a new pickguard
and different knobs

Hey, finally some action on this post.

Rob, it's a fairly obscure model made for a short time in the 80s, and I think it sort of looks like an LP double cut. As I originally said, we both agree the knobs are shit. The tortoiseshell pickguard actually looks pretty rad in person, but I agree it looks like balls here. It might even be cool without the pickguard.

I was trying to talk him into putting one of those Duncan P-Rails pickups in there since he has two other Gibsons with relatively similar humbucker sounds, but he's still deciding. He actually wanted to put P-90s in the SG, which I think would look fucking awesome.

a p90 on that would be fucking cool
i like the tortoise shell
its the shape it dont quite fit round the neck
cool guitar none the less

im guessing the "spirit" model is just a DC with a humbucker?

epiphone used to make these things for 150 bucks. awesome deal

That top Epiphone pickguard looks way better than the shit on the Spirit.

Rob, see this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Spirit

man that second junior needs two tone two volume
and a toggly!

I like that guitar a lot actually... I had never heard of it before though.

matt.dines wrote:i like the tortoise shell
its the shape it dont quite fit round the neck

The reason is the neck joins the body at the 20th fret rather than the 22nd but they've used a standard double cut pickguard. If they'd have joined it the same it would look a lot better.

It was initially produced in the Kalamazoo factory under the Epiphone nameplate. In response to poor sales, some Epiphone models were changed to Gibson, and a faint Epiphone logo can be seen under the Gibson logo on the peghead.

hahahahahhahaha fuck gibson. thats worse than the fender george harrison painted "rocky" strat being made in Indonesia

500 dollars? At least Jesse James used a gun................

Not my thing, but a Gibson. I always have room for oddball models.