I Need Some Help From The Guitar Players Here!

[🪦 ReellyScary ●]

Clownation looked at the same info I did. It's not out of the question that the neck could of been knocked out of it's original body and set-in a future acoustic body. The serial number is stamped on the top of the head- stock on my LP. Slash from G'NR recorded "Appetite" with a guitar with a Gibson neck and a generic body...or vice-versa....anyway congrats on your score.

[🪦 brettyboy ●]

Goaliehack thanks for the info that is great! Yeah I knew they were non original, my uncle told me they dry rotted off so he replaced them. That info definitely helped me. I hear ya reelly scary I know what you mean, I know it's the original neck though. Nothing has been replaced on it besides the tuners.

[🪦 brettyboy ●]

I feel like we are on an episode of pawn stars.

LMAO :biggrin: love that show

[🪦 goaliehack ●]

Clownation looked at the same info I did. It's not out of the question that the neck could of been knocked out of it's original body and set-in a future acoustic body. The serial number is stamped on the top of the head- stock on my LP. Slash from G'NR recorded "Appetite" with a guitar with a Gibson neck and a generic body...or vice-versa....anyway congrats on your score.

Neck's can't simply be "knocked out" of the body without serious damage being caused to the neck as well. Gibson sets their necks to the body using a dovetail joint, and in the early days used hyde glue for the process. To remove a neck, first you would have remove the 15th fret and steam treat the neck joint to soften the glue. The neck on his J-50 shows no signs of being reset with a new neck (I.E. discoloration in the binding/finish surrounding the neck joint), and the Gibson logo seen on his neck wasn't present until 1947.

I'm not sure what you were pointing out on your Les Paul, but if you have a stamped serial number LP made after '77 it is simply the 1st and 5th digit which tells you the year made. The LP Slash used for Appetite wasn't a Gibson at all, it was actually a '59 replica made by a builder named Kris Derrig.

[🪦 ReellyScary ●]

That's what I was saying about the Slash LP that it wasn't an actual LP by pointing out the neck or body being Gibson. And I know it's not an easy thing to replace a neck but I have seen it done on acoustics.

[🪦 brettyboy ●]

So I think it is a 1952 after doing some more research!

[🪦 brettyboy ●]

Hey Goaliehack, so what I thought was the serial number indeed is not, it was a number added after the fact as anti theft thing by my great great uncle(which was popular back then) it goes up and down on the headstock instead of across the top which is where it would be. It does have an FON that is 2988 27 and I finally found out that FON is from 1949. So it's probably a 50 since the FON is put on the neck early in manufacturing. You know as well as I do depending on the demand it could take a half a year to complete the manufacturing of the guitar. It was started in 49 and either finished that same year or in 50. So it's completely narrowed. Thanks for everyones help! I got a lot of information from the Gibson forum as well to help me out!

[🪦 brettyboy ●]

Hey Goaliehack and other guitar players, I put the original style Kluson 3 on a rail tuners on my J-50 to make it look and sound even better!