1955 Les Paul Goldtop for Sale. $$$$

Resurrect said:
Personally, I wouldn't shell out more than 500 bucks for a guitar. All I care about is sound quality, and if I can't get a satisfying sound out of something even for three hundred, I might as well give up. I can not imagine shelling out thousands of dollars for, as Greg put it, "A chunk of wood." :drunk:
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I'm notorious for being a guitar cheapskate, but if I found a very nice used Les Paul standard that I loved....I wouldn't hesitate to drop $1500 on it.
Guitars like that retain their resale value very well. You can always get $1500 out of a really nice used Les Paul standard. If you do your homework you are not gonna get hurt on a $1000 to $2000 guitar.
if you start trying to buy $25000 guitars like this gold top, you better know your shit.
You can get taken to the cleaners quick.
 
Here's a curiosity. In 1955, was it commonplace for the Les Paul to have what we now know as the Tune-O-Matic bridge and tailpiece, or just the tailpiece (at a weird angle)? Was that a transitional year for LP design?

For the low, low price of $50K, you could have a suspicious guitar that has a gold top, a gold back, and a gold neck, and a very weird angled tailpiece:
https://reverb.com/item/1271101-1955-gibson-les-paul-standard-all-gold-goldtop-ohsc-p90-s

Or, for half that price you could have a similar guitar with a Tune-O-Matic:
https://reverb.com/item/1088750-1955-gibson-les-paul-model-goldtop-1st-year-tune-o-matic-bridge
 
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