Lucille has been stripped.

[fett]

http://cgi.ebay.com/2004-GIBSON-ES-3...QQcmdZViewItem I have done this on a bolt-on to get to the wood. But, this is too much.

[SGplayer]

It's still a deal!!! Can always seal & repaint (Neck).

[fett]

It's still a deal!!! Can always seal & repaint (Neck).

I have 2 Kramer Pacer Specials. Both USA around the same time. 1983-4. One is stock and one has a shaved neck. There is a world of difference between the two. I'm not that good to care and they are bolt-on necks. But to take a glued neck and do what he did takes out a whole lot of what a 335 should be. I want one so bad, I can taste it. But not one altered like that.

[jtr]

That why modding a guitar rather than buy one that is already the way you like it is insane and nonreversable, basicaly another destroyed guitar. That why old guitars go up in price so much the ones that weren't broken or mod are worth more because they are original. We are just caretakers and users until we sell them . Learn from others mistakes.

[SGplayer]

It doesn't look too bad, but I guess you would have caliper a stock Lucille up & down the neck & compare to this one. Okay if it's just paint & a mm worth of wood, but if just paint I thinks it's a good deal.

[fett]

It doesn't look too bad, but I guess you would have caliper a stock Lucille up & down the neck & compare to this one. Okay if it's just paint & a mm worth of wood, but if just paint I thinks it's a good deal.

I agree. I only stripped the finish off to the wood. It makes the 'tar much better. But that was a $60 guitar. The problem here is that he took a spendy guitar and fukked with it. The collector value is gone. It's a player and the value is whether the buyer likes it. I will buy a 335. But it will be all stock. I just have to be patient. But, I'm 56 with nothing but time.

[Bengal65]

Sacrilige. What a dweeb. I love 335's. Yeah, a caliper would be a good idea to see where it's at right now.

[SGplayer]

I guess to a Collector it's shameful, to me it's still a great sounding guitar & it's got a shredder neck!!!

[jgcable]

I'd like to smack the guy.

[Drsracing]

I'd like to own it. Black 355= total sweetness

[jtr]

I'd like to smack the guy.

+1000

[RacerX]

"The pickups were also replaced with Duncan design humbuckers."


Talk about adding insult to injury!

[Flatpicker]

It's a 3 piece neck.
I thought Gibson went with 1 piece on the es models?

[straycat]

3 piece is is a stronger neck.My 65 Trini Lopez 335 was cool but the 1 piece neck was a pain in the ass to keep stable.

[jtr]

He also shaved the neck down thin so you might end up with trust rod problems.