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Check out these pics (jer's Gibson)

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 #48412  by Tennessee Jedi
 
What kind of Gibson is that ?
The body looks small and the pick guard looks weird.
:smile:

 #48413  by hesgone95
 
Yeah, it does look strange. Body almost looks like a Hohner. Wierd.

 #48415  by Tennessee Jedi
 
I guess that guy saw some great shows and has the pics to prove it !
:smile:

 #48418  by Dozin
 
It's really a Alembic body with a Gibson Les Paul neck. Other words, project guitar.

 #48421  by tigerstrat
 
That's no Gibson, that's an Alembic job. Rick Turner built it with a neck from a smashed SG Custom.

 #48422  by tigerstrat
 
Bob is using two different guitars in those shots. The last ones it appears to be possibly an ES-355?

 #48431  by tigerstrat
 
Some junkie in New York smashed a Les Paul SG Custom to smithereens, and the building manager gave me the neck and a three-humbucker-pickup combination. I designed a little guitar body, went to a local cabinet shop, and they cut it out for me in mahogany. I veneered the back and sides in walnut, bound it, put this SG neck on it, and that became my main guitar. I wired it in stereo, and I had a pedal board that I put together with volume controls, fuzz tones, wah-wahs, and all that. Jerry Garcia bought that guitar from me later on, and who knows where it is today?- Rick Turner, AMERICAN LUTHERIE, #64, WINTER 2000
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