A Truly INSANE Find! | 1982 Gibson AAAAA Quilt Top Les Paul Standard Prehistoric Reissue Sunburst
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Published 2024-05-03
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📚Description: This 1982 Gibson Les Paul first surfaced to the public about 7 years ago when Gary Dick of Gary's Classic Guitars released it from his collection. He had purchased it about 15 years prior from a doctor looking to downsize his collection. Back in 2017, 11k was an INSANE price tag for a 1982 Les Paul when most would be lucky to see half, but it sold quickly and I recently purchased it ~ 6 years later from the gentleman who purchased it from him.
After extensive analysis, this is basically a Gibson Standard 82 model, but with BIGGER neck, Grover Tuners, Ink Stamped Serial number and a top in a league of its own. Standard 82s usually have nice tops, but it is the ink stamp serial that transforms this guitar into the formal "prehistoric" category which is very cool!
0:00 - Overly Dramatic Intro
0:46 - The Backstory
2:20 - Pre-Historic History
3:20 - Mysteries
4:18 - Work Bench / Specs
18:05 - Clean Tones
19:45 - Dirty Tones
21:04 - Final Thoughts
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All Comments (21)
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Happy to add this one to the Museum Collection - what a crazy top! 🟢My Website: www.troglysguitarshow.com/ 🔴Reverb: tidd.ly/4aFiyhC 🐕 Private Help Sessions: troglysguitarshow.com/help-appraisals/
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We the jury, find the guitar: “quilty”
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It’s so cool to hear Strings and Things mentioned. I grew up near Memphis, and after I started playing guitar (1989), every year, for my birthday, I would ask to go to Memphis and to Strings and Things. I saw my first Black Beauty there and would drool over the guitars. I was so bummed when I heard it closed.
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Looks more like an ebony FB. It also has the shine that rosewood doesn’t. Young ebony wood can have “blonde” streaks.
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Man, those Tim Shaw PAF humbuckers sound amazing! If other examples sound this good, their reputation is well deserved!
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That dazzling top is like a boiling cauldron of seething rock riffs! Amazing!
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Dragon wood.
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I really think that some of these tops are so different from what we know of quilted tops that could be called dragon scales tops. This is just such a top . Absolutely gorgeous. I personally love a guitar that the tones vibrate through out the body. Something about the tones being able to be experienced physically in addition to audibly is very inspiring when i play.
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That's a beauty! My '82 30th Anniversary Goldtop has an ABR-1 bridge, thumb bleeders, One-piece back and one-piece mahogany neck. The pups are Tim Shaw pups. It has brown back plates, as well. It's a low serial number "B" run of the series ( A, B and C). I'm not sure where it was made, but am pretty sure it was not Kalamazoo made. I've had it since new.
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That’s the sickest quilt I’ve EVER seen
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Anytime trogly says not click bate you know it’s gonna be good
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As many photos as I’ve seen of flametops and quilts, that has to be the best one. I have a Gibson/Guitar Trader ‘59 reissue that I ordered and received in (I’m pretty sure) 1984. It has the real unique 1959 neck (one thing Guitar Trader made sure was done correctly in these special guitars) shape that is perfect for my hands and it has always been my baby. I wouldn’t call it a baseball bat neck, I have a 1962 Les Paul/SG that is a true baseball bat neck which I like a lot and is not too big for my hands.
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My jaw just hit the floor.
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Lovely guitar. I like the way that the quilt kind of forms squiggles at some angles. Glad that it has chrome hardware and that they didn't decide to go with gold. When it's dismantled the ABR bridge posts do look a bit spindly and you can understand how 'post lean' develops. I'm OK with the later designs in their place.
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Holy blankets Bat Man! That's a quilllty top!
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"This is what dreams are made of." Couldn't have said it better myself. That is truly a stunning Les Paul. I can see why you had to add that to your collection. A truly incredible guitar. God bless and rock on 👍😎🎸
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Should've left the extra thumb wheels. I have an 89 pre, and it has the extra thumb wheels. I like it. I got it from GC. They sold it as a Classic. The guy from gc said that Rick from cheap trick was in his store and played it for quite some time. It's a cherry burst with crazy ghost flames. Thinking about putting my joe bonamassa 1959 pickups in it as soon as I have time. Currently I have seymour 59s in it. Funny thing, I was sure I had dimarzio 36th anniversary in it. Anyway, congrats!
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Love those old narrow head stocks . Thanks Yoda for playing it sounds real Good !
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Sometime, can you do an episode just about what exactly "prehistoric" is, everything that they have, don't have and all that for us new kids lol
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Love it! Your videos are like ASMR vids for guitar. This one def has the taste of Grandmas wrapped strawberry candies, ya know, the ones in the strawberry color schemed wrappers that you would find in her sock drawer. Pain in the ass to dig for but oh so delicious once found.
