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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:07:30 PM EDT
So I picked this up recently. It’s a 2014 Les Paul Supreme Florentine. They made 120 of them from what I hear. All were blue except for this one.  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:28:08 PM EDT
[#1]
What a beauty. Florentine cutaway and a Bigsby, wow.
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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:46:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DM1975]
[#2]
It originally had a matched set of 57 classic and super 57’s and I got them in the purchase, but it’s wired up with slightly overwound Lindy Fralin Pure PAF pickups right now.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:46:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: FlamingDragon]
[#3]
That looks like it cost a fortune
Killer guitar bro! |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:48:56 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FlamingDragon: That looks like it cost a fortune Killer guitar bro! Thanks! I actually got a smokin deal on it. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 2:02:10 AM EDT
[#5]
Did they all have bigsby's?
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Posted: 2/9/2024 3:31:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Did they all have bigsby's? Yes |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:18:08 AM EDT
[#7]
very nice. I love watching Joe Bonamassa playing the mess out of those things
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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:26:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By trvln: very nice. I love watching Joe Bonamassa playing the mess out of those things He would probably buy that guitar for a premium. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 9:59:42 AM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By d16man: He would probably buy that guitar for a premium. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By d16man: Originally Posted By trvln: very nice. I love watching Joe Bonamassa playing the mess out of those things He would probably buy that guitar for a premium. He likes em a bit older I think. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 10:31:40 AM EDT
[#10]
WOW..spectacular!
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Posted: 2/9/2024 11:12:56 AM EDT
[#11]
That thing is killer.
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Posted: 2/9/2024 12:11:05 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: Thanks! I actually got a smokin deal on it. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: Originally Posted By FlamingDragon: That looks like it cost a fortune Killer guitar bro! Thanks! I actually got a smokin deal on it. Congratulations |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 12:15:45 PM EDT
[#13]
Well that's the coolest thing I have seen today.
How much did you get it for? |
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NH, USA
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Posted: 2/9/2024 12:18:46 PM EDT
[#14]
That is a beautiful guitar! Congrats!
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Posted: 2/9/2024 12:22:31 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By drfroglegs: Well that's the coolest thing I have seen today. How much did you get it for? Around the price of a Standard. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 4:39:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: callmestick]
[#16]
Minus the Bigsby that is a Perfect Les Paul. I never really liked Gibson's, my buddy had a custom that played and sounded like a dream. I thought SG's were the ugliest guitars and hated them. Then my buddy came over to play one day with a faded SG. I played it for a while and had to have one. A couple of weeks later I got this.
 I liked this so much I got this a few years later.  Then this one showed up online and I had to have it.  I'm pretty much hooked now. I can take or leave the modern, I yanked the auto tuners and may replace the electronics, otherwise it plays and sounds nice. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 4:48:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Minus the Bigsby that is a Perfect Les Paul. I never really liked Gibson's, my buddy had a custom that played and sounded like a dream. I thought SG's were the ugliest guitars and hated them. Then my buddy came over to play one day with a faded SG. I played it for a while and had to have one. A couple of weeks later I got this. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/218698/Picture_022-3123350.jpg I liked this so much I got this a few years later. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/218698/IMG_1492_JPG-3123355.jpg Then this one showed up online and I had to have it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/218698/IMG_1579_JPG-3123360.jpg I'm pretty much hooked now. I can take or leave the modern, I yanked the auto tuners and may replace the electronics, otherwise it plays and sounds nice. Nice! I’m at 6 now for Les Paul’s. They’re addictive |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 6:37:34 PM EDT
[#18]
I think we need a family portrait.
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Posted: 2/9/2024 7:31:35 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: I think we need a family portrait. Here are the other 5.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 7:50:27 PM EDT
[#20]
Pretty guitar but it is sacrilege that they *ever* put Super 400 inlays on a mahogany neck.
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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:02:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RickFinsta: Pretty guitar but it is sacrilege that they *ever* put Super 400 inlays on a mahogany neck. I absolutely love the Super 400 inlays. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:26:07 PM EDT
[#22]
Sweet!
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Posted: 2/9/2024 8:40:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: Here are the other 5. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/53155/IMG_3017_jpeg-3123500.JPG Very Nice. |
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Posted: 2/9/2024 9:23:47 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Very Nice. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By callmestick: Originally Posted By DM1975: Here are the other 5. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/53155/IMG_3017_jpeg-3123500.JPG Very Nice. I’m waiting for someone to tell me the one in the middle isn’t a Les Paul.
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Posted: 2/10/2024 5:32:24 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: I’m waiting for someone to tell me the one in the middle isn’t a Les Paul. Is it a real 60-63 or a reissue? |
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Posted: 2/10/2024 5:39:51 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Homesteader375: Is it a real 60-63 or a reissue? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Homesteader375: Originally Posted By DM1975: I’m waiting for someone to tell me the one in the middle isn’t a Les Paul. Is it a real 60-63 or a reissue? It’s a real 63. I’ve had it since 1990-1991 |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 2/11/2024 2:56:19 AM EDT
[#27]
Sweet looking guitar!
With the prevalence of Chibsons these days, their increasing quality and my lack of experience in this area, I would be nervous about buying a Les Paul these days. I bought mine decades ago. I never realized how many varieties of them there are until I started watching Trogly's YouTube channel. |
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Posted: 2/11/2024 5:13:41 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: It’s a real 63. I’ve had it since 1990-1991 That's sweet! Those are unicorns. |
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MO, USA
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Posted: 2/11/2024 6:39:22 AM EDT
[#29]
Awesome
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Posted: 2/11/2024 9:51:50 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: Sweet looking guitar! With the prevalence of Chibsons these days, their increasing quality and my lack of experience in this area, I would be nervous about buying a Les Paul these days. I bought mine decades ago. I never realized how many varieties of them there are until I started watching Trogly's YouTube channel. I love what he is doing but holy shit is his voice and cadence irritating. I can barely get through a video. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 2/11/2024 9:53:33 AM EDT
[#31]
Nice. That’s good looking. How does it sound?
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Posted: 2/11/2024 9:53:41 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: I absolutely love the Super 400 inlays. Me too but they belong on a 5-ply neck, not on Mahogany. Whenever I get around to picking up a Heritage copy of my '79 Artist I'm probably going to go with split blocks just for kicks. |
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Posted: 2/11/2024 10:16:18 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: Sweet looking guitar! With the prevalence of Chibsons these days, their increasing quality and my lack of experience in this area, I would be nervous about buying a Les Paul these days. I bought mine decades ago. I never realized how many varieties of them there are until I started watching Trogly's YouTube channel. It can be difficult sometimes spotting fakes but this one makes all the markers of a real one. You just gotta know what to look for and after you’ve held enough of them you kinda get a feel for it too. Pickup cavity’s and truss rods can tell you a lot. As for Trogly, I watch his show every day. Can’t get enough of it. |
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Posted: 2/11/2024 10:17:09 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR-180: Nice. That’s good looking. How does it sound? Oh it sounds absolutely amazing! Great resonance and sustain for days. |
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Posted: 2/11/2024 10:44:34 AM EDT
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One issue I have with it is that a lot of people automatically dismiss it as a fake or copy because of the Florentine cut. They only made about 120 solid body Les Paul’s with it and like I said they were all blue except this one.
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WI, USA
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Posted: 2/12/2024 1:37:14 AM EDT
[#36]
She's a beaut Clark. Its always been my opinion that it isnt really a Les Paul unless it has PAF's anyway so that was an upgrade.
I'm thinking that I saw a video once that the SG was actually the first design of the Les Paul or did I not pay close enough attention to that? |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 1:46:46 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DM1975]
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Goostoff: She's a beaut Clark. Its always been my opinion that it isnt really a Les Paul unless it has PAF's anyway so that was an upgrade. I'm thinking that I saw a video once that the SG was actually the first design of the Les Paul or did I not pay close enough attention to that? Hmmm I don’t know. The Les Paul came out in 1952 and the SG body style came out in 1961 but I heard Cesar in an interview say that the first actual mention of the “SG” was a 58 or 59 double cut junior or something like that. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 1:49:27 AM EDT
[#38]
Also these Lindy Fralin pickups are freakin amazing!!!
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NY, USA
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Posted: 2/12/2024 4:51:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RickFinsta: I love what he is doing but holy shit is his voice and cadence irritating. I can barely get through a video. Same here. The worst is the odd emphasis he puts on words with "T"s in them. I've posted several comments correcting his info too, so you have to take what he says with a grain of salt. He's mostly correct, but his info can't quite be taken as Gospel. And I'm definitely not a Les Paul expert. I fast forward through his "playing demo" part, which brings his videos to a tolerable length. Sort of. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 5:54:44 AM EDT
[#40]
It’s hard to beat a gold top with a bigsby. Sweet guitar.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:47:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: Same here. The worst is the odd emphasis he puts on words with "T"s in them. I've posted several comments correcting his info too, so you have to take what he says with a grain of salt. He's mostly correct, but his info can't quite be taken as Gospel. And I'm definitely not a Les Paul expert. I fast forward through his "playing demo" part, which brings his videos to a tolerable length. Sort of. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: Originally Posted By RickFinsta: I love what he is doing but holy shit is his voice and cadence irritating. I can barely get through a video. Same here. The worst is the odd emphasis he puts on words with "T"s in them. I've posted several comments correcting his info too, so you have to take what he says with a grain of salt. He's mostly correct, but his info can't quite be taken as Gospel. And I'm definitely not a Les Paul expert. I fast forward through his "playing demo" part, which brings his videos to a tolerable length. Sort of. No one out there seems to really be doing what he is though. Yeah he’s messed up a few times but usually if he does he brings it up in later videos that a viewer corrected him. I do agree it all has to be taken with a grain of salt. I also skip the demo part but I like seeing the guitars pulled apart and seeing the things he’s looking for. It’s on a much larger scale than I’d ever be able to do by myself. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:51:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By M1Zeppelin: It’s hard to beat a gold top with a bigsby. Sweet guitar. Thanks! Unfortunately if you touch that Bigsby it pulls it completely out of tune. I have a Telecaster with a Bigsby and it won’t go out of tune for anything. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 2/12/2024 10:54:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: No one out there seems to really be doing what he is though. Yeah he’s messed up a few times but usually if he does he brings it up in later videos that a viewer corrected him. I do agree it all has to be taken with a grain of salt. I also skip the demo part but I like seeing the guitars pulled apart and seeing the things he’s looking for. It’s on a much larger scale than I’d ever be able to do by myself. I would NEVER buy a guitar from him. The way he highlights every little defect would have me never being satisfied with one he tore apart. I'm OCD enough on my own, thanks. I'm certainly jealous of the amount of disposable cash he has available though. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 11:00:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: I would NEVER buy a guitar from him. The way he highlights every little defect would have me never being satisfied with one he tore apart. I'm OCD enough on my own, thanks. I'm certainly jealous of the amount of disposable cash he has available though. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mech2007: Originally Posted By DM1975: No one out there seems to really be doing what he is though. Yeah he’s messed up a few times but usually if he does he brings it up in later videos that a viewer corrected him. I do agree it all has to be taken with a grain of salt. I also skip the demo part but I like seeing the guitars pulled apart and seeing the things he’s looking for. It’s on a much larger scale than I’d ever be able to do by myself. I would NEVER buy a guitar from him. The way he highlights every little defect would have me never being satisfied with one he tore apart. I'm OCD enough on my own, thanks. I'm certainly jealous of the amount of disposable cash he has available though. Well no guitar is perfect especially when it comes to Gibson. There’s always something seems like. And yeah I wish I could invest as much as he does in guitars. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 11:43:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Mach]
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Very interesting.
If there is only one, and it appears to be true, possibly made by an employee just prior to the blue run, then this is a thread from a previous owner from 2017, unless recently means 2017 and you used to live in VA. https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/2014-les-paul-supreme-florentine-goldtop.207796/ |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 11:52:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DM1975]
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mach: Very interesting. If there is only one, and it appears to be true, possibly made by an employee just prior to the blue run, then this is a thread from a previous owner from 2017, unless recently means 2017 and you used to live in VA. https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/2014-les-paul-supreme-florentine-goldtop.207796/ That’s this guitar. I read all of that before I bought it. And that’s the guy I bought it from as well. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 12:11:23 PM EDT
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Also he thinks now it was a one off dealer promo for an Asian dealer since he picked it up in Hong Kong.
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Posted: 2/13/2024 12:09:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: That’s this guitar. I read all of that before I bought it. And that’s the guy I bought it from as well. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DM1975: Originally Posted By Mach: Very interesting. If there is only one, and it appears to be true, possibly made by an employee just prior to the blue run, then this is a thread from a previous owner from 2017, unless recently means 2017 and you used to live in VA. https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/2014-les-paul-supreme-florentine-goldtop.207796/ That’s this guitar. I read all of that before I bought it. And that’s the guy I bought it from as well. That is awesome, especially since apparently Gibson has said it is genuine and one of a kind. Only one exists and it is an awesome looking guitar |
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Posted: 2/13/2024 12:18:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mach: That is awesome, especially since apparently Gibson has said it is genuine and one of a kind. Only one exists and it is an awesome looking guitar Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mach: Originally Posted By DM1975: Originally Posted By Mach: Very interesting. If there is only one, and it appears to be true, possibly made by an employee just prior to the blue run, then this is a thread from a previous owner from 2017, unless recently means 2017 and you used to live in VA. https://www.lespaulforum.com/index.php?threads/2014-les-paul-supreme-florentine-goldtop.207796/ That’s this guitar. I read all of that before I bought it. And that’s the guy I bought it from as well. That is awesome, especially since apparently Gibson has said it is genuine and one of a kind. Only one exists and it is an awesome looking guitar Thanks. I’m glad I jumped on it. Especially for the price |
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Posted: 2/13/2024 7:39:29 PM EDT
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