Topic: Guitar parts

[BomberMann650]

Well, I don't want to start a big debate...but I bought a Chibson,Just the body,no electronic, no anything ,just the body.So I'm trying to locate all the parts I 'll need.
There is a lot of comments on these guitars.But think,with good parts,it will be a good guitar for a very decent price.

Bert

I had a chibson 335 given to me.  Didn't sound anything like a gibson.  But the neck warped the same way gibby's do!

Now the greco les paul I had, that was a fine knockoff - held its own in a studio record-off against a vintage gibson lp studio

Bomber, I have an insanely good 1982 RR650 Greco LP custom, its a Randy Rhoades model with stock Dry 1982 pickups, its a tone machine and blows away everyone that hears it, I have a friend that builds some beautiful guitars and he just shakes his head and laughs when he hears it played, I Love it and will never sell it, I have 6 other high end and custom shop Japanese Les Pauls, 2 of the are Tokai's, both made from Honduran mahogany, both custom shop and they are better than any Gibson I ever owned or played, and at a far better price, I also have a 1982 Tokai strat that's brilliant, I'm no strat guy but this guitar is an awesome representation of what a strat should sound like, took me years to get the ones I wanted, I'll never sell the Greco or the Tokai Goldtop, they are just too good and specs are equivalent to custom shop Gibsons or better, I have some great pics if you are interested...

Sounds neat, i would have never thought to make an offer to buy em.
I haven't played in years, not since i had that psychotic meltdown and sold every piece of music gear I owned.  I haven't really sang or whistled a happy tune since.

[Retro Rocket]

Well, I don't want to start a big debate...but I bought a Chibson,Just the body,no electronic, no anything ,just the body.So I'm trying to locate all the parts I 'll need.
There is a lot of comments on these guitars.But think,with good parts,it will be a good guitar for a very decent price.

Bert

I had a chibson 335 given to me.  Didn't sound anything like a gibson.  But the neck warped the same way gibby's do!

Now the greco les paul I had, that was a fine knockoff - held its own in a studio record-off against a vintage gibson lp studio

Bomber, I have an insanely good 1982 RR650 Greco LP custom, its a Randy Rhoades model with stock Dry 1982 pickups, its a tone machine and blows away everyone that hears it, I have a friend that builds some beautiful guitars and he just shakes his head and laughs when he hears it played, I Love it and will never sell it, I have 6 other high end and custom shop Japanese Les Pauls, 2 of the are Tokai's, both made from Honduran mahogany, both custom shop and they are better than any Gibson I ever owned or played, and at a far better price, I also have a 1982 Tokai strat that's brilliant, I'm no strat guy but this guitar is an awesome representation of what a strat should sound like, took me years to get the ones I wanted, I'll never sell the Greco or the Tokai Goldtop, they are just too good and specs are equivalent to custom shop Gibsons or better, I have some great pics if you are interested...

Sounds neat, i would have never thought to make an offer to buy em.
I haven't played in years, not since i had that psychotic meltdown and sold every piece of music gear I owned.  I haven't really sang or whistled a happy tune since.

Sent you a PM, didn't want to keep disrupting this topic...

[bert96]

Nobody seem to have the parts that need...!?
Anyway,i'll try locally maybe i'll have more luck.

Now,what is the "must have" tools,i'll work on my guitar so,what are the tools that absolutely need to buy?

Bert

[BomberMann650]

If you work on motorcycles, you already have most of what you need to work on a les paul.

Fwiw, I did find complete 12-string les paul hardware kits.  But they were inexpensive All-Parts brand and you said you didn't want china stuff.

There used to be a luthiers tool magazine that had things like fret crown files ready to order, I can't remember the name of that rag atm.