Gibson Goldtop - only money separates me from my dream guitar

[ido1957]

Found a Gibson Standard Gold Top w/60's Neck at Long and McQuade today. I've only recently thought about getting one. The hang tag says it is a 2002 model??!!!?? It may have been sitting there for a while, although I haven't been looking so maybe it's not's that old. It's in nice condition, pretty much mint and the neck is very comfortable to me. Priced around $2300 which is about $250 less than MF which surprised me. WISH I had that kind of spare cash...Too many other bills to pay but maybe someday....

 

[Anfontan]

That goldtop is sure a beauty all right, maybe someday one will follow you home Ido.....

 

[CoolCat]

gorgeous guitar...you shouldn't have played it though, now you'll most likely have gear lusty feverhead for sometime.

buy it if you can...can't take the money with you, and its probably a better investment than most anything else in the world and more fun to own than frkn Tech stocks!

 

[goldtopchas]

They are cool allright. I bought my 80' Deluxe brand new for $636.00 w/tax. It's pretty war torn, but still plays and sounds great. I looked at a bunch of Pauls before I bought it. There was just something about the gold finish that had me hooked. I had to have it. At the time, I was using my dads 2nd car (his pride and joy,only drive it on sundays car)to get to and from a temp job. Mine was pretty much shot and I needed wheels bad. I used about half the money from the job to buy the guitar and and I thought my dad was gonna shit when he found out. I came home from band practice the next night and tried to sneak up the stairs with it. He spotted me and said in his usual gruff way.."Hey! Let me see this guitar. I was all set for a blow up, and as he held it and looked it over, he just said " that's pretty damn nice." He never said a word about me blowing the cash on the guitar. He probably didn't realize how much that meant to me. It was one of the nicest memories I have of my father. I'd walk through fire for that guitar.

 

[Superhuman]

Horses for courses but I had one and sold it, just didn't do it for me... just make sure you spend a good few hours annoying the shop owner with Stairway to Heaven type riffs to make sure she's truely the one for you

 

[hungovermorning]

I'm just throwing this out there, but I think the definitive goldtop has a pair of cream p-90s in it. P-90s are so wonderful yet so unloved in a humbucker world...

 

[Daveg62]

Mine's a 75 or 76 Deluxe that I bought used around 1980 for $350. Tuners were already changed to Grovers and pickups routed out to Dimarzio's . Since then it now has Schallers and EMG's which I don't really care for. Should probably try to get it back to stock sooner or later. Either way, I guess I can't complain.

 

[Superhuman]

I'm just throwing this out there, but I think the definitive goldtop has a pair of cream p-90s in it. P-90s are so wonderful yet so unloved in a humbucker world...

Yep, mine had the P90's - nice tone, very bluesy in a totally unmetal way

 

[TelePaul]

Go buy it dude!

 

[lpdeluxe]

Mine's pictured in my avatar, a '70 Deluxe I got in '97 for $750. It's the killer for me: I sold my '63 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent and all my other electrics after I got it.

I never cared for full-size humbucker LPs, but this one sings.

 

[ido1957]

Damn - I shouldn't have tried this out at the store. Been thinking about this non-stop. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get over it once someone else buys it....