Anorexic Explorer

[YetAnotherOne]

This one showed up a couple of hours ago:







Can't wait to get home and try it out!

[No Use]

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****** thats Way too freakin' cool...weird knob, but thats about it, man...

[StukaJU87]

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Groovy baby.

[GodOfRhythm]

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Holy schmoly!

NICE!

[Mr Graphic]

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VERY COOL!!! They made an SG like that too. The knob is a replacement by Nobease...they're soft rubber and come in a rainbow of colors, even flourescent glow in the dark. Cool score!

[RR05xx]

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Cool CS. Give us a playability report please!

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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Looks like the Rick Neilsen model.

[hippietim]

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The knob is a Nobease knob. They are cool. Feel great.

Nice guitar!

[YetAnotherOne]

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Upon further review: judging by the slightly smaller body, 25 1/2" scale length, split diamond inlays, ebony board, 9/88 build date & strung-through construction this is probably part of the Explorer 90 line designed by Matthias Jabs. Most of the ones I've seen in the past have a Floyd and a neck pup but I've seen a couple of strung-through models and seem to recall seeing a one-hum Floyded model somewhere. I think this finish was called "silverfish". The knob is indeed an aftermarket "Nobease" which looks kind of strange but does feel nice.

On the bright side there’re no cracks, breaks, or repairs; the neck is straight; the frets seem level; I was able to set the action at a reasonable level; the pup sounds good to my ears and appears to be of Gibson origin; and there are no signs of abuse.

Nitpicks (several visible in the following pic): per normal for Gibsons of the era the finish isn't perfect, you can definitely see the wood grain through the paint; as an added bonus you can also see the red grain filler at the end of the neck; the frets were just a bit too wide for the binding over the fret ends and each binding nib now has a finish check (and a couple of the nibs are actually cracked themselves) running vertically from the top of the nib to the bottom of the binding; the fretboard is cracked in most of the frets as well, in a couple of places as many as 4-5 times in each fret but at least they don’t run more than a couple of frets; ditto the neck joint where that really scary-looking but totally harmless trademark Gibson finish crack has developed on the treble side and the back and is beginning on the bass side; the finish is of the type used by several companies in the 80s that outgases and causes the case to smell like cat pee, luckily the guitar itself doesn’t stink; and the frets are badly oxidized, particularly on the top half of the fretboard.



The strings feel sort of sticky like those on an acoustic you pick up at someone’s house after it’s sat for years and years without being played. That coupled with the state of the upper frets means that this one is going to take a bit of work though it seems like it’ll be a fairly nice player. I’ll probably drop this off with a shop to have the fretboard cracks repaired, there are more than I want to deal with myself.

[BallsOnParade]

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wow, a Gibson with a 25.5" scale? That's a rarity...so is the 24 frets, but they have made some SG's (primarily the Iommi, SG-X, and SG-Z models, and I also think there is a USA-I andII models as well) with 24 frets...and I want at least one of the cheaper 24 fret, single hum SG's in my collection, but I'd really like to find a Gibson EXP-V, a Flying V with the Explorer headstock

[necrotechno]

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Yeah, they had the Explorer (X-90), SG (SG-90) and Flying V (V-90) in that series. The Floyd ones had an angled single coil in the neck position, and the string-thru ones just had the one humbucker.

Then I've also seen an SG-90 with just one hum and that wacky Steinberger tremolo that Gibson used for a while. Dunno if the X or the V came in that configuration.

[Grandturk]

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each binding nib now has a finish check (and a couple of the nibs are actually cracked themselves) running vertically from the top of the nib to the bottom of the binding;

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Every fret on my 78 LP has this crack - fairly standard for Gibbos.

[j2379]

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you mean one of these

thats an SG-Z made for one year 98.

[toejam]

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I love those SG-Zs! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] I believe the SG-X only had one humbucker and a coil tap switch.

[YetAnotherOne]

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each binding nib now has a finish check (and a couple of the nibs are actually cracked themselves) running vertically from the top of the nib to the bottom of the binding;

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Every fret on my 78 LP has this crack - fairly standard for Gibbos.

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LOL - Yep I probably should've said, "This one has all of the typical Gibson ailments and a few extra fretboard cracks to boot." [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I swear that every time I give in and bring a Gibson home I wind up remembering what great guitars Jacksons are.