Hi everyone,
Please help find my stolen 1970's Black Les Paul Custom s/n 491498 Watch my YouTube video on how the greatest gift ever given to me was stolen in the early 1980's in the San Francisco area and hopefully can be returned to me. I will pay fair market value for the guitars return no questions asked! Scroll down for photos of me playing the guitar plus the police report proving the theft with the guitars serial number noted. Hope you can watch my YouTube video. Thank you!
My parents bought me this Les Paul Custom brand new for my birthday in January 1977. They have both died recently and it would mean a great deal to me having this guitar back in my hands, heart and home. Connecting me back to my parents and their unwavering support of my dream to be a professional musician.
Here are some specific details about my 1970's Black Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar:
Please help find my stolen 1970's Black Les Paul Custom s/n 491498 Watch my YouTube video on how the greatest gift ever given to me was stolen in the early 1980's in the San Francisco area and hopefully can be returned to me. I will pay fair market value for the guitars return no questions asked! Scroll down for photos of me playing the guitar plus the police report proving the theft with the guitars serial number noted. Hope you can watch my YouTube video. Thank you!
My parents bought me this Les Paul Custom brand new for my birthday in January 1977. They have both died recently and it would mean a great deal to me having this guitar back in my hands, heart and home. Connecting me back to my parents and their unwavering support of my dream to be a professional musician.
Here are some specific details about my 1970's Black Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar:
- Serial Number: 491498 stamped into the wood on back of headstock. This serial number dates it to 1974-1976. Most probably was made in 1976 and was purchased in January 1977.
- Factory Second, with a number "2" stamped into the wood on back of headstock.
- There is a long finish crack directly under the low E string that runs between the two pickup bezels, parallel with the low E string.
- There’s a small hole drilled in the top between the two volume controls where I added a coil tap switch in the late 1970’s. You can see the switch in the second photo below.
- Both pickups were changed: Neck pickup was changed to a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the late 1970's and the bridge pickup was changed to a DiMarzio X2N style custom pickup with zebra bobbins around 1982-83.
- Refret was done in the early 1980’s using large fret wire.
- Pickguard, pickup bezels and pickup selector ring were spray painted white in the late 1970’s.
- Gold speed knobs were added in the late 1970’s.
- Gold metal input jack plate was added in the late 1970’s.
- Original Gibson case with purple velvet lining.
