Brian May low cost import model with custom pickguard retopped in our
custom shop
We have also added custom electronics & ebony fretboard
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Gibson Les Paul Retopped In Ed Roman's
Custom Shop
Not the best picture of this
It came out looking a lot better
Dean Z, after playing this you won't want a Gibson !!!
The tone & resonance are awesome.
That big tuning fork headstock resonates like a banshee.
Spalted Maple Retop
Quicksilver
Rich Warm Deep Spalt
"Quicksilver Guitars are
Awesome Guitars"
They are the most versatile guitars we carry
Guaranteed to give you more different tonalities than any other guitar on the
market.
AT ANY PRICE
"Quicksilver Guitars are
Awesome Guitars"
This guitar is lighter than a Les Paul
This guitar plays circles around a Les Paul, The action is set lower.
Due to the Tone Pros bridge & the strings thru body it out-sustains a Les Paul
This guitar Is less money than a Les Paul
This guitar is hand built completely in the USA unlike a Les Paul.
Tone is subjective!!!
This guitar has split coil pickups so it offers more
different tones than a Les Paul
Why would anyone want a Les Paul ?
Maybe they have been brainwashed since being a kid
Maybe they like heavy, cumbersome, outdated guitars.
Maybe they are rebelling against modern technology.
Maybe they are insecure, and want to join the groups of other lemmings.
Maybe they are trying to recapture their youth.
Maybe they like paying hand made prices for machine made guitars.
This little rant is not supposed to piss anyone off. (I'm sure it will)
This is written because...
I would like to see people think for themselves & stop being taken in by paid
for magazine ad's
Another Gibson Retop
Done in Our Custom Shop
Ed Roman has done 750 of these using many different woods
Why Do a Retop ?
To fix the guitar after
some idiot damaged it or put a tremolo on it.
To make it sound better.
To make it unique.
To make your guitar look much better.
To make your guitar infinitely more saleable for much more
money !!!!!
If you own a PRS with a tremolo or one of
their substandard, wraparound bridges. Or possibly a BC Rich,
that has one of those cheesy Badass bridges or Quadmatic
wraparound bridges. Or any guitar with a trem or crappy
bridge.
A retop will solve all your problems.
Sometimes it's cheaper just to out and buy a new guitar.
But then there's that old nostalgic sentimentality that you
have attached to Old Betsy. You can't put a price on that.
Maybe the guitar belonged to your dad and you want to honor
him by playing it. Very admirable but that old time technology
will limit your playing severely. Dad would not want that. |
Gibson Les Paul retopped and repainted in Ed Roman's custom shop.
We also subtract about 2 lbs of wood from these beast's
effectively making them lighter & more playable.
We have seen at least 2 or 3 of these at every guitar show we go to.
In only one case was the guitar being billed as a retop.
Ed Roman guarantees there is no way for anyone to tell it was a repair or a
retop.
Ed Roman guarantees that no one on the planet is capable of telling the
difference.
All work done in Ed Roman's shop
PRS Retop & Headstock Quilting
All work done in Ed Roman's shop
We are always retopping & lightening Les
Paul's
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We have been doing these retop jobs for 25 or
more years. We
really don't know of any other shop that offers this service. It's
actually cheaper to build a whole guitar from scratch than to do these jobs.
We also replace the stock Gibson El Cheapo plastic neck inlays with real MOP or
Abalone.
Granted this service is not inexpensive.
however it costs thousands more to have Gibson do it.
For example if you went crazy and decided spent $3,000.00 on a custom retopped
Les Paul it would cost you over $12,000.00 from Gibson.
Some less than intelligent people cannot
validate themselves as human beings unless the
headstock says "Gibson" !!!!
A Real Pity For The Human Race!!!
Oh Well
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