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    NGD - ‘61 “Les Paul” Standard Reissue

    Really???? I could see if it was a 1958-60 Les Paul Standard...... But it's only a reissue model..... That geetar needs to be played.
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    The Norlin Era Bill Lawrence "Tarbacks" Pickups.

    I just purchased a 79 Gibson L6-S with BL pups..... A wide array of tones with that 6 position selector.
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    My 2001 "Hot-rodded" SG Standard.

    Dig it!!! Not a big fan of the Bigsby but the witch-hat knobs are cool addition.
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    New pickguard, yay or nay ?

    To me your SG has a 70's vibe to it, and with the block fret markers which to me lends itself to the single ply black.
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    Odd Norlin era SG

    $4500??????? LOL!!!
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    Period Correct Top Hat Knobs (Help)

    Not sure what you mean, but if the reflector does fall off I'll just re-glue the damn thing. That would be the easiest thing I've done to the guitar so far.
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    Period Correct Top Hat Knobs (Help)

    I looked at some 64 SG's and they aren't nearly as high as mine were positioned. To me it looked goofy. In order to add for threaded nuts to the potentiometer shafts so that I could adjust how much of the shafts would protrude so that I could get the knobs where I liked them. Mine were about...
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    How did you learn to play?

    It was Ricky Ricardo. I took piano lessons from 5 years old until I was 10, but started playing trumpet when I was 8. When we were watching I Love Lucy he pickup an acoustic and sang some love song and I wanted to learn. Eventually I got into the Beatles...... man I ruined a lot of my older...
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    Odd Norlin era SG

    I dig my Norlin era Gibson's as well with exception of the low flat filing of the frets. All my Norlins have been re-fretted with jumbos .... I'm thinking the fret dressers back then didn't like bending very much.
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    SG sounding choked and plinky

    Is the plunkiness tone apparent when playing open chords and lead? Or just when playing lead?
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    Modified 2022 61 Gibson SG (Going for the 64 GH Vibe)

    Don't get me wrong but I just don't get the $4000 price tag for a Gibson SG with a vibrola. I was fortunate enough to get a 1 piece body but the most I would ever pay for a new SG is $1600 and it better have everything I want. lol. BTW nice ebony SG!!!!!
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    Modified 2022 61 Gibson SG (Going for the 64 GH Vibe)

    So my GH project is complete..... I decided to plug the tailpiece holes as the previous solution wouldn't stay in place as the adhesive just wouldn't hold.
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    Period Correct Top Hat Knobs (Help)

    My PLT knobs finally showed up and I'm pleased. What I wasn't to happy about is having to add an adjustment nut to the potentiometer threads because the knobs sat so damn high they looked like four palm trees. So after de-soldering the tailpiece ground wire and getting the POT adjustment nuts...
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    Vibrola Question

    I never needed domed thumbwheels on any of my vibrola SG's, though I do like low profile ABR1 but again I never needed one of those on any of my Gibson's as the Faber ABR1 has worked perfectly. I've been playing with Kahlers, Floyds, Fender and other tremolos, and you need to consider your...
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    SG sounding choked and plinky

    If it sounds fine acoustically, I would say the issue could be somewhere in the electronics.... maybe a bad capacitor / volume pot or the soldering isn't very good.
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