1981 - Gibson Les Paul custom - vintage - serial# 80431700

1981 - Gibson Les Paul custom - vintage - serial# 80431700

Price: 1575.0
1981 - Gibson Les Paul CustomFREE SHIPPING!!!BEAUTIFUL GIBSON CASE INCLUDED!I am the third owner of this vintage guitar. My little brother was the second. As the pictures show this beauty has been loved over the years yet still plays great! As far as the year goes, it is possible that it is older then 1981. I did some research and came up with that date....but I will admit that the history of serial numbers is a bit confusing. That said I feel pretty confident that my research is accurate. It states that this Gibson was made on Feb. 13th 1981. The main reason the serial number comprehension is confusing is that Gibson has repeatedly changed how they do it. Ebay does not allow me to post links, but if you go to Gibsons website you can find out everything you need to know about serial numbers. They have a great PDF file you can download that really explains a lot.FROM GIBSON . COMLike a fingerprint or a social security number, the series of digits inked or impressed on the back of a Gibson headstock can go a long way toward identifying a guitar. But, with more than 75 years of shipping records in the Gibson books, and dozens of variations on numerical schemes used over the years, serial numbers sometimes do little to shed light on the origin of a mysterious Gibson.“Serial numbers can be extremely tricky,” says Gibson Customer Service Manager Jason D avidson, whose team fields calls and emails regarding every Gibson di vision. “Some can tell you a lot about a guitar, and some don’t really tell you anything. Gibson has had so many different schemes over the years, and now we’re using reissue serial numbers that look like the old serial numbers.”Inside a locked closet just outside Davidson’s office are some of Gibson’s most enduring written materialsâ€"shipping records dating from 1936 to 1970. With vintage Gibsons selling at auction for as much as half a million dollars, Davidson will sometimes roll up his sleeves and poke around in the ledgers, but only as time allows. The earliest volumes contain hundreds of yellowed pages covered front and back with rows of handwritten numbers. It can take Davidson several hours to locate a specific serial number, if he can find it at all. Even then, there may be four other guitarsâ€"of all different modelsâ€"with the same number sequence.When faced with a question about a guitar’s date, Davidson most always refers to his beyond-dogeared cop y of Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars.“At least a quarter of the calls that Gibson’s Customer Service team gets are related to the dating and IDing of guitars,” Davidson says. “We make sure all the guys have a copy of Gruhn’s Guide.”Davidson also recommends the Blue Book of Electric Guitars. Another resource for IDing and dating guitars is Gibson’s computer database, which catalogues scores of serial numbers from 1987 on through the present.“It doesn’t ... Click for more info
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