Gibson weirdness SG P90 mounting....

[David Schwab]

He started doing it because he was getting divorced and had to "hide" his money. So he bought LPs figuring they would increase in value.

Three of the guitars in the back he built, except the bullseye Charvel.

If you look at the curves on a few of the Pauls, they are all wrong. The story is that when Gibson was bought from Norlin, they didn't get any of the patterns (I think the guys at Heritage have them) and they had to use photographs and a lucigraph to get the shape, which became distorted!

The top carves are all over the place too.

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Bad investment :-) I've noticed there are TONS of Gibson Historics on Ebay, probably hard to get your money back out of those things. The Explorer neck on that one grates on my nerves

[David Schwab]

He said the prices have gone up since he started buying them, so who knows.

Yeah, he bought the Aldo Nova guitar just because it's pretty rare. Only about 10 to 12 were made.

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Oh I thought was one he built, never heard of them...

[David Schwab]

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Wasn't much into those guys either
I confess to be a follower of the "anti-Lester"

[David Schwab]

Cheap Trick is a great band! I like Bo too. I listen to just about everything, except country and opera.

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Well check out Vince Gill, Brad Paisley and Brent Mason on YouTube. Those guys keep the shred country tele picken' thing alive. Most country now days is more like pop rock than country. I grew up when country was real, Carter Sisters, Buck Owens, and Johhny Cash, they had these hayride TV shows and I was just learning my first 3 chords on a Mexican acoustic guitar and would play along, I love that old country stuff. Loved those old glam cowboy rhinestone outfits and flash guitars with their names inlaid, man that shit was cool...

[David Schwab]

Oh I like the country guitarists just fine, and the old stuff like Patsy Cline. The guitarists are great! I do like Vince Gill and Brad Paisley. Albert Lee is great too. I like all the chicken pickin', I just don't like the songs. I also love pedal steel guitar. I've been trying to find a way to use steel guitar in non country music for years!

[ScottA]

If anyone ever contacts you wanting P90 pickups for Gibson SG reissues be warned they have a custom made baseplate in there and a mounting that is freaking strange, check this photo out. The pickup has been unBOLTED from the baseplate. The pickup ends up having TWO baseplates, this has gotta be the most screwball thing I've ever seen....

Back to the original point of your thread...

Here's a pic of the backs of the original pickups in my '67 SG Special. Note that the backplate doesn't have the recessed mounting flanges as on the reissue.

[jason lollar]

nice photo!

[automan]

Yeah, those are the kinds of photos that should be in the pickupedia

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Interesting, so there WERE special base plates made at one time....

[David Schwab]

Those are the same baseplates on the P-90's from an SG that I had.