Gibson Custom Jeff Beck Les Paul VOS

[fillmore nyc]

fill, I literally stepped in shit with this one. I had no idea Gibby was even making the oxblood. I got a hair up my butt one day and googled "JB Oxblood LP" and got a hit on ebay. It was a collector/dealer in the next f'n town!!!!! Like if you were in Valley Stream and the axe was in Lynbrook. I knew it was coming home immediately!

Thats kinda what I've been doing lately, and its how I found that gold top sorta JB. A guy I know in Florida just fuckin' traded one WITH money for some POS '58 reissue plain top. (Which he ended up selling anyway )
I wish I had known about that before he made that move. Friggin' nipple head.

[yngwie308]

I guess I've always been lucky, but poor... what else is new.. Over the past few years I have seen at least 4-5 for sale, but they are rarely for sale, you are right. The rarest being the Tone Quest magazine version. This being a special spec version ordered by them from Gibson. They were chambered and had some other tweaks and are highly sought after even now. I still want one of these, but my 1952/6 Goldtop is as close to perfect a Les Paul as I could ever want and when I hit that neck pickup, it's like a tone rainbow in the sky
yngwie308

[NY Chief]

see my report in Off Topic NAMM Report

[yngwie308]

http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showt ... p?t=153583" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pic of #1 Jeff Beck Oxblood at least $20K, they are saying the neck is fatter and the pickups sound different??Sounds all good to me, except the $20K part
yngwie308

[NY Chief]

#1 was locked in the hanger so I couldn't play it but I was able to put my hand around the neck. Felt about the same size as mine. I don't think you could make it much bigger and still be playable!

[yngwie308]

Here is Jeff pictured with all 50 of 'em, the #1 belongs to him and was the one he liked best, so I guess he did play all 50 and too bad for the guy with#50 as it probably sucked the most..I'd still take it though..
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/F ... -Les-Paul/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
yngwie308

[yngwie308]

Interview with Jeff where he holds a reissue Oxblood:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/F ... Jeff-Beck/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

yngwie308

[fillmore nyc]

http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showt ... p?t=153583
Pic of #1 Jeff Beck Oxblood at least $20K, they are saying the neck is fatter and the pickups sound different??Sounds all good to me, except the $20K part
yngwie308

Well, here it is, in all its glory on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-Gibson-Jeff-Be ... dZViewItem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nice guitar, but 25k??????????


There's always the unsigned version for 7k.
Still seems like a lot to me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2009-Gibson-Jeff-Be ... dZViewItem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


I just bought a brand-y new one (left over from '05 with all the case papers and certificate) for $2400. Ill beat it up myself and save a few bucks. (Havent seen it in person yet though... just pics. Its on vacation in Florida without me. )
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[NY Chief]

"This was guitar was painstakingly recreated by Gibson with the help of Jeff Beck all the way. .... Gibson engineers thoroughly inspected Jeff’s guitar and worked closely with him over a period of months to create as accurate a reproduction as possible."

I find that a bit of an exaggeration or maybe even pure bullshit.

[fillmore nyc]

"This was guitar was painstakingly recreated by Gibson with the help of Jeff Beck all the way. .... Gibson engineers thoroughly inspected Jeff’s guitar and worked closely with him over a period of months to create as accurate a reproduction as possible."

I find that a bit of an exaggeration or maybe even pure bullshit.

Bingo. You're dealing with Gibson. Bullshit comes with every guitar that leaves the factory. No dis intended to Jeff Beck, and far be it from me to dis the JB LP, cause I just bought one, but I've made no bones about how I feel about the job they did on the "painstaking recreation" of the "Inspired By" Johnny Winter Firebird. THAT guitar came with a tractor trailer load of fuckin' bullshit.
When you hear the statement: "painstaking recreation" or "no detail overlooked", or "worked closely with..." come off the lips of someone from Gibson, get out yer boots, cause the bullshits gonna get deep.

[jcmjmp]

"This was guitar was painstakingly recreated by Gibson with the help of Jeff Beck all the way. .... Gibson engineers thoroughly inspected Jeff’s guitar and worked closely with him over a period of months to create as accurate a reproduction as possible."

I find that a bit of an exaggeration or maybe even pure bullshit.

This sounds like the same kind of BS as what Ed is saying about his new Wolfgang.

[yngwie308]

What I find weird is this guy who bought these guitars to flip, shows these crap photographs for a $25K guitar! Also the 'only $7K' VOS guitar the pictures aren't much better.
When I saw the video documentary about the 'creation' of the 1964 ES 335 Eric Clapton guitar, which was built for the most part I could see, on the regular production line and they spent more time 'replicating' the Hare Khrishna sticker on the back of the headstock. Sure they color matched the paint, not using a colorimeter, or a color spectrum analyzer, what ever they are called. I used to work for this engineering firm in N.Va. in field service electronics. they manufactured the equipment used to electronically measure colors, and strangely I never have seen this industrial technique used in the guitar business, where I know the eye is just as important, but the eye can be fooled and electronics, much harder to.
Anyway back to point, I find it hard to believe anything the Fender or Gibson say about anything, as they regularlyOUTRIGHT LIE about most things they do or sell!!!
From conversations I had with Tom Murphy back in 1993 at the Chicago Vintage Guitar show, when myself and Music Ground hung out with him and now head of the Gibson Custom Shop , Edwin Wilson, even back then which may have been pre-Henry era Gibson, I'm not exactly sure, if so it was early Henry years,Gibson has some strange practices.
The pickups of the Clapton and electronics, there was no emphasis on these being examined, ect.
Al this close working with artist and tireless efforts to exactly duplicate the instrument, the Yngwie guitar certainly woke me up to all this ho-hah, ect.
Any of these vintage restoration companies or painters that are heavily featured on the Les Paul Forum, could do a more accurate job than Gibson, imho. Gibson can't even copy 'their own' guitars, 'exactly', witness the Hysterical, I mean Historic series.. , every year Gibson gets closer to getting the top carve correct, the Gibson logo, which on these Oxbloods is more accurate than before, according to the Gibson experts.
Things like the positioning of the vol/tone controls, the truss rod/ condom or not, tenons, ect.
Admittedly some year Historics are more favored than others, but I would never want to buy any of these guitars.
On the amp side my horrible experiences with the Marshall Handwired series, is lesson enough.

I hope to have a JB Oxblood oneday, it's on my bucket list, but not anytime soon based on the current bs, next will be the PG Greeny guitar, I had heard they may be breaking out the digital calipers for that one some time in the future.
You could fly to Surrey in the English countryside, spend a few days, get Jeff to sign your 'ordinary' Oxblood and still have change..
yngwie308

[fillmore nyc]

... next will be the PG Greeny guitar, I had heard they may be breaking out the digital calipers for that one some time in the future. yngwie308

Uh, oh!! Watch out when they do THAT!! Their digital calipers just seem to read out differently than the rest of the worlds digital calipers!!

You could fly to Surrey in the English countryside, spend a few days, get Jeff to sign your 'ordinary' Oxblood and still have change..
yngwie308

LOTS of change!!!

[yngwie308]

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An 'aged' Oxblood from German Ebay, at least they know how to take pictures properly...

[jcmjmp]

The bridge pickup is really close to the bridge on the JB Oxblood. That would make for an overly bright guitar. I don't see why anyone would want to buy this except for a collector.