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[pickdropper]

Just got a guitar I've wanted for a while: an early-to mid nineties Gibson Les Paul Junior Special.  I passed on buying one of these about a decade ago and I always felt it was one of those that got away. I've been shuffling a few pieces of my guitar collection lately and decide I wanted to keep an eye out for one.

Over the years, that pricing has slowly crept up on these and I haven't pulled the trigger on one.  I found this one for a reasonable price and decided to give it a go.  Obviously, the pricing was reasonable because this thing has quite a bit of wear on it.  Little dings are everywhere (except the neck thankfully) and the back has a few decent gouges in it.  There's also some lacquer missing on the headstock (likely where it made contact with a guitar stand).  It's all cosmetic, however.  I haven't found any structural issues.  I suppose this is the look that some of the relic guitars go for, except instead of it being aged by Tom Murphy, it was probably aged by getting hit by bottles of Murphy's in a pub on the rough side of town (OK, I made that up). 

So far, I've been digging it.  Time will tell if I leave the P100s in there or put a real set of P90s in it.  The P100s do sound slightly different, but quite good and lack of hum is a nice touch.  I may or may not change the nut to a bone nut (it has a graphite nut on there now).

[juansolo]

Do like! 

[cooder]

Very noice! Hohoho the big Dude in red brought a red geetaaar to Dave's house... 

[playpunk]

Nice!


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[selfdestroyer]

That thing is awesome looking.. I want one also. One day, one day.

Cody

[SmoothAction]

If I didn't sell my car to buy the Gibson I currently own (still deciding if that was a good choice), I'd buy another car to sell to finance another Gibson. My life choices...

Very nice PD, and thank you for the kind words.

[jubal81]

Now that's a work horse. Heckuva score, bud.

[GrindCustoms]

That's my kind of guitar, used and ready to take more! Nice NGD dude! 

[culturejam]

She's a beaut, Clark. 

[pickdropper]

Thanks guys.

I think workhorse is an apt description.   This thing has obviously seen some action; I'm looking forward to playing the hell out of it.

[LizardKing]

Isn't there something special about the simple guitars that make them special?
I love Les Paul/SG Juniors!
That one is the right colour and looks nice.
I hope you leave the P90s in it, they work really well on those guitars.
I'd try better P90s if those don't tickle yer tush.

Used to be a Gibson guy but have turned into a Fender guy since Gibson went all "too damn cheap
to paint something properly, let's market it as something good" low quality/overpriced crap.
They still make some good, basic guitars, and a whole lot of stuff that's just plain bad or not my taste at all....
Faded?
LOL!
That's a backyard, unfilled, lazy, and just plain nasty finish and Gibson should forever be ridiculed for ever selling such a thing.
They should catch even more stinky stuff for doing it repeatedly with different names for decades....
They could have just Tru-oiled the things and said so.

[Kinki fuzz]

Nice guitar, most things look better with sings of use, specially guitars and denim :-)
I would never relic a guitar but I hate the brand new look also

[Hogharry]

Nicely worn in and just coming into it's prime. Lovely.