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Originally Posted by Dru Edwards
Love the Gibson! How and when did you acquire it?
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I acquired that guitar in 1978. It was listed in a local paper called Trading Times. I already knew enough reading George Gruhn's articles that the orange label and no volute was more desirable than later models. The seller wanted $350 and I got him to knock the price down to $315 because there was about a 1/4" diameter area on the back with no finish and one of the tuners was bent. Now that I think of it, one of the tone knobs was broken. I replaced it hoping that the insert would fade, but it never did. I immediately replaced the tuners with Grovers and soon after had the stop tailpiece conversion. I still have the pick guard and bracket but I kinda like the symmetry without the guard. Plus, in the summer playing sitting down in shorts, the bracket would dig in to my leg.