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PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:27 am**

http://tinyurl.com/6hdntm

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:36 am**

What kind of Gibson is that ?
The body looks small and the pick guard looks weird.

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:43 am**

Yeah, it does look strange. Body almost looks like a Hohner. Wierd.

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:52 am**

This one is cool - dig the hoops net
http://cgi.ebay.com/Early-70s-Grateful- ... otohosting

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:57 am**

I guess that guy saw some great shows and has the pics to prove it !

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:29 pm**

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

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:31 pm**

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

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:33 pm**

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

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:48 pm**

Tennessee Jedi wrote:This one is cool - dig the hoops net
http://cgi.ebay.com/Early-70s-Grateful- ... otohosting

Mickey is in the background chillin, while Billy is still at it...

PostPosted:**Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:16 pm**

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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Check out these pics (jer's Gibson)

Check out these pics (jer's Gibson)