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Company: Gibson
Model : Les Paul Standard
Year:1960
Serial number: 0 7606
Color: Cherry Red
I owned that guitar for 16 years and sold it in 2016. This guitar was renecked before 1990
and it has had a neck repair after the reneck!.
The Problem, no one knows, when it was done and who did it.
I was told by the new owner he belives, that it is an 1954 neck.
So I asked Tom Wittrock and Lou Gantanas (Oncle Lou), two real experts for old Les Paul and previous owners oft this guitar.
Tom Wittrock wrote me: " I did not
know anything about the reneck.
I do not know where he got the idea it was a
1954 neck, but not from me.
A 1954 neck would have the Gibson logo further down the face of the
headstock,
and this guitar does not have that in photos I see on line. If it
does have a 1954 neck,
then the headstock overlay and logos were changed to make
them correct for 1960.
But, my guess is that it does not have a 1954 neck."
Lou Gantanas answer: ""I don't know anything about a 1954 neck on that guitar.".
and:
"OK, if Tom Wittrock is familiar with this guitar, then it is the so-called 'Jerky-Burst', due to a photo used by
Vic for his first book where I had that burst pictured in its case, with a 1-900-A U JERKY bumper sticker in the case.
This of course was a project I was involved with in the early 90's which eventually would come to be known as#
The Jerky Boys; a multi-platinum record selling comedy group. I purchased that guitar from a Japanese collector,
who purchased it from Tom Wittrock; if Tom cant tell you any more about its history, nobody can.
So if neither of us remember anything about a 1954 neck, then it probably isn't."
Now it's up to you to decide what you belive.
I think that neck can be anything.
There is no proof for any kind of neck.
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1960 0 7606 (pic. from 2002) vs two 1954 Headstocks
We still not know it. The Logo is defenetly no proof for a 54th neck.
When I bought it, it was totaly refinished and the serial number was restamped.
So there is no proof for anything left.
I'm collecting guitars since the late 70th. I heard many storys about guitars.
But if the story makes the guitar more expensive,, I expext the story to be proved.
If the story is not proved, it's just a story.
Anyway it's a great Les Paul and and I liked the neck pickup sound..
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