I rebuilt a guitar that had been mysteriously painted and badly modified

[@domformula1]

If there was such a thing as a guitar license, whoever did that to this Gibson would probably have lost it for cruelty to guitars. Great job bringing it back!

[@NickShvelidze]

Honestly the paint job isn't as bad as the atrocity committed against the pickup cavity.

[@rpaasse6453]

Nail biting moment for sure...

[@eldis4304]

Sort of james Tyler style

[@ArthurAlison]

+1000

[@Semicon07]

Just looking at that made me produce a diamond in my butthole.

[@outuvoyager1901]

lmfao

[@rindred]

I'm so glad you did the transparent dark brown on the back - it would have been a crime to cover up that beautiful mahogany grain. That's exactly what I hoped you'd do once I saw what was under the paint. And the Pelham blue metallic top was a nice choice as well.

[@orionatx]

You didn’t rebuild that guitar, you resurrected it! Great job

[@metalgynoid]

Beautifully done! Gibson should provide an award for bringing that baby back to life.

[@samdandrea1507]

What was done to that guitar was reprehensible. What you did for that guitar was remarkable. Outstanding effort!

[@dawnpsy6663]

He did both, so…

[@andrewgrace4410]

Thank you for bringing this beautiful guitar back to life.

[@Stoobers]

Love the blue and wood look. Another very nicely restored guitar. I'd buy that one!

[@rpaasse6453]

Its what i always say, being a musician, using drugs and think you can paint, it aint working!! Glad you restored this guitar. Personaly i think more time spend on the routered inlays, sanding etc, then it would have been almost perfect. But, 110% better then it was! Well done!

[@Ellis-zh3uv]

Ah, a critic. I always like a good critic. 😀

[@rpaasse6453]

@@Ellis-zh3uv Critic, maybe, woodworker...yes. But, like i said, he did a great job.

[@Ellis-zh3uv]

@@rpaasse6453 But did he do a great job? There are a few in here that say they also restore guitars, they say he isn't that good. He looks very talented to me but I defer to the experts.

[@nobrainsnoheadache2434]

@@Ellis-zh3uv Yeah I feel you ;) I saw the title then the opening shot and my first thought was 'why?' I hate it when people think they have it over others. News flash - they don't.

[@andretxnx]

Essa cor azul não gostei mas ficou muito bom a reconstrução

[@djguzzy10]

Love that He's playing Toe to demo the guitar. great!

[@1155media]

At The Drive-In as well!

[@theo9952]

Perfect restoration again. Committing atrocities against guitars should be punishable by law imo. Especially valuable ones.

[@garmonistyura]

Здравствуйте ! С интересом и с удовольствием просмотрел ВАШЕ видео . Работа и конечный результат очень впечатляют . ВАМ как Мастеру , респект ! Гитара получилась , просто загляденье , шикарная красавица с прекрасным звучанием . И играете ВЫ великолепно , браво ! 🎸🎵🎶👍👍👍

[@ratgeyser]

I like both sides of this restoration. I loved the original paint job. This guitar has been to see the elephant and it has earned every one of its scars. Love it. Glad to see it get a new lease on life, but I'd also love to hear the stories from its early days.

[@firefly44220]

You loved the original paint job?? wtf?? It wasn’t even well done

[@JetteIsHollow]

@@firefly44220 i liked it too, i didn't like the varnish

[@4bubbabites]

You did an AMAZING job on this beautiful guitar. I was sad in the begging to see how the previous owner destroyed it. Awesome job :)

[@emanueleperra4169]

Wowwwe!!! Wonderful!!! Grandissimo lavoro!! Un artista!!🔝🔝

[@alar7743]

I don't know why I like watching this - I also sometimes buy instruments in this condition at big garage sales - it's a kind of meditation to save musical instruments

[@claudevieaul1465]

I'd love to find cheap guitars like this in garage sales - unfortunately over here, in Europe, these instruments cost FAR too much to be so careless with 😜🤣🤣 Apparently some people just have money to burn....

[@alar7743]

@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire she is1st Sunday, every Month ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69?

[@alar7743]

@@claudevieaul1465 I once found a Gibson SG 69 in a charred pickups state on almost free - alameda point antiques faire ... I still wonder which Jimi Hendrix burned down SG in San Francisco in 69? and just bought an Epiphone for restoration for 170 on ebay

[@alar7743]

@@claudevieaul1465 KZbin bans my messages when I write where there are such guitars - already banned three messages

[@fredericjaquet3729]

The state in which the former owner left this guitar was heartbreaking. It's so satisfying to see you bringing it to life again !

[@KFitzG35competitor]

Very well done, I would never guess they were the same guitar if I was shown 2 photos side by side. Excellent work!

[@44tk28]

見ていて気持ちの良い再生でした！ザグリの修正を木で埋めてしまうとは、、脱帽です👍

[@scottenglert4083]

Glad you document the original conditions too - I actually thought that paint job was kind of cool... Hopefully it served the previous owner well with that design... but your updates are amazing too !

[@DesertScorpionKSA]

It looks good and it has some character to it. I like the slight imperfections. It's a great player guitar.

[@StephenLight-oc3tl]

It never ceases to amaze me how you bring these horribly treated instruments back to life

[@sergeyv4908]

first of all he took a normal instrument anf make it look like this to make a video content for simpletons

[@StephenLight-oc3tl]

@@sergeyv4908 I don't think so. Where do you get your info from?

[@canadablake]

@@sergeyv4908right? That paint looked like it had been slopped on a week before the “restoration”.

[@jeanbisson]

Great job. You restored honor to a guitar that was severely dishonored.

[@autumn.rose.mettrock]

The matte pelham blue is so pretty, one of my favorite colors

[@John-xj7us]

Thanks for giving this guitar a second chance

[@doragonfish6423]

言うほど醜い塗装ではないね。 むしろ好き。

[@willholly7526]

I saw some questionable methods in the process of this video. I was hoping you'd restore it back to factory specs but it's nice just the way it is. If you want you can alway route it for the dogeared p90s later but the result is beautiful all the same. Great job.

[@田中聖文-y3r]

演奏されてるの、孤独の発明　leave word ... toeですね！！！

[@anteast2684]

I love these videos. Your level of craftsmanship and attention to detail is off the planet. Since watching your channel, I have been more attentive when cleaning and maintaining my guitars. Keep the awesome videos coming.

[@rickwhitescarver8526]

Big improvement over the train wreck of a paint/hacking that poor guitar had undergone

[@neotaharrah6478]

Oh man, that is so nice. What it looked like before was atrocious. Great job.

[@neocollective]

I'm on my second project bass just like that, haha...they are fun to do because you know you cannot go wrong, will always be better than they were. I relic them too, is more forgiving than bringing them back to new. Nico work and video 👍🏼 !

[@anthonyskellern5970]

Great work - you have given that poor old, neglected and abused instrument a new lease of life, and it looks absolute gorgeous!

[@SONOMA_VALLEY_TOM]

One of your best rehabilitations! Your patience to fix these disaster guitars always amazes me. Well done!

[@andrewtait6197]

Aye that's what I call a transformation and the colour choice spot on

[@Nosferdamus]

you took what looked like a "meteor marble" guitar finish and made it into a work of art, amazing work.

[@beppeferri1232]

I tuoi video sono rilassanti, ma ti faccio i complimenti per la cura che hai per tutte le tue opere.

[@deandee8082]

nice save for sure, real ncei transformation, I have a feeling that's nice player, the fingerboard is very nice and yo have reworked it to a very nice guitar now . . good job!

[@のん-r5j]

お疲れ様でした😅 なかなか良いブルーですね。 今回もありがとうございました🎉

[@carlcarlamos9055]

Nice job. It would have been interesting to hear the tone of the instrument before you remade it. Thanks and take care.

[@Mark-oy9lw]

Nice work beautiful choice of colour👌

[@FrazerJones71]

I get that who ever painted that guitar before you got hold of i twas going for a Jackson Pollock type thing but wow did they make a bad job of it, well done on rescuing it.

[@taLLdavidproduction]

Love the TOE song you played at the end of the video. That was awesome

[@TheBoss_4151]

Nice job man. Looks really nice!

[@paullawson8610]

You turned a piece of junk and turned it into something beautiful really impressed with your work sir thank you for sharing

[@TonyPortrey]

There is something mesmerizing and calming in watching you turn lost causes into real instruments again. It's so sad that you couldn't show the mahogany wood grain on the face of the instrument, but you made a great alternative choice. Great work!

[@jimcoppa6946]

I like the way you eliminated that broken circuit board

[@joereddy3146]

Pretty. Nice work 👍✅ (I can still see the wood around the pickup bouts tho….)

[@geneedwards7619]

Fantastic job!!

[@oct9AFD]

Amigo, tú no eres un luthier.. eres un cirujano!! Mucho respeto para ti y tu trabajo

[@albertohara7999]

Great Job ❤❤❤

[@EssEnn-p3c]

Well done! It started out as a high priced piece of junk and now the guitar looks awesome. Thanks for the video.

[@thegreatjonzini]

Such a great blue colour 🥂 great taste and great job as always 😊

[@geschickt]

Honestly, I think I enjoyed your play testing as much as the restoration! I like your unique musical ideas.

[@familyengineering5591]

Its At The Drive In. Listen to more music

[@ikebeRatLM308]

Love you played One Armed Scissor riffs at 43:25 Great episode!

[@irvin56]

Great work, and you played the heck out of that thing!!!!

[@Broskidude4343]

Holyshit bro you killed it!!! Didnt look like much hope for that guitar, but not its just beautiful . Great job!!

[@parvez011]

Beautifully done, I like the electric blue color

[@mixentrik]

You Sir are a great artist! ❤❤❤ The Magnificent Guitar Doctor! 🫡🫡🫡🦸🦸🦸

[@MasterFailureOfficialChannel]

I really like what you did here. The blue on this one is really sweet!

[@JuanFranciscoLopez-q5d]

Great job, congratulation, this is the state in wich we want to see a Les Paul...

[@user-zg1tv7cv3i]

いい色ですね！かっこよくて欲しいな！毎回楽しみにみてます。at the drive in、懐かしくてついついコメントしてしまいました。

[@michaeldruce6929]

That's probably the most beautiful Les Paul I've ever seen. Great job, bud.

[@DmitrySevereign]

It's fantastic! Very good job, nice sound.👍

[@danielktdoranie]

First off great work. Second I always love the riffs you play. One thing I noticed… you can still see where the wood was replaced after you refinished it… Maybe a good idea to put more filler around the the pickup rings and put on a thicker finish? One thing I don’t see you do, and that you may want to consider doing is wet sanding the primer, then respray the primer, then spray the paint and then do a few coats wet sanding after each coat and then doing the same with the lacquer. That might hide the repair.

[@岡本健-x9h]

毒毒しい色から綺麗なボディーのギターになってギターも喜んでいるみたいですね。 お疲れ様でした。

[@rs3018]

Very cool great job!! Every guitar player would love to find something like this. Thanks for sharing 👍👍

[@strumminronin]

I wish I had the chance to do this. Well done. Thank you for restoring these instruments, for giving them a new life. I actually think the orgonite resin "paint job" is visually appealing, but hard to say sonically, and how much market appeal it might have had. And to think that guitar has not got a broken headstock!! May be that's the most incredible part of its story yet.

[@markgordon4368]

What a mess. Nice restoration, some people have more money than sense 😊

[@fredericadda]

Amazing work! I would have loved a gold top but the metallic blue looks stunning too!

[@paulfrantizek102]

It's a very Fender color (I think they called it Lake Placid Blue), but it's nice.

[@jaynbob42]

I’m with you there, I was hoping for a gold top finish. The blue is good though.

[@男-t5s]

この塗装が逆に好き

[@sakitamablack8686]

俺も思った。 直す前の塗装。後ろは流石に酷いけど、塗り（塗装の方向性）は面白い （カッコいい）とは素直に思ったね。 何かアンコウかオコゼの側みたいだけど・・・ｗ うわ、これギブソンなんだ。ギブソンでやっちゃ駄目だな～。 この手の事はエピフォンかバーニーかラブロックでやらないと！ｗ

[@sakitamablack8686]

最後まで見ました。 凄いですね。素直にお店におけますね。 余計な事ですが・・・、ズボンもリペアーした方がいいかも・・・ｗ

[@yetee239]

わかる普通にボディはかっこいい

[@jeffhogan9125]

Absolutely brilliant work on that poor abused guitar! Now see if you can do the same for those pants. : D You rock, dude!

[@KenMH2024]

Nice job young man!

[@franciscooper.retired]

I like the P90's, they always give a Les Paul a terrific sound. Dig the knobbly knees you should go in for contests.

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

Great job saving that one!! At first it looked like you were gonna have permanent pick up rings .made of wood!!

[@julianrodolfo]

Nice recovering ❤️‍🩹, I would have done another color, but that’s personal preference. Nice job ya did there. Now work on your playing.

[@blakeyonthebuses]

Great vid. I think i'd have filled the pickup holes first then cut the holes, but it turned out fab thanks!

[@andywallet9960]

freaking good video , as always , this one could be one of my favorites le the les paul looks amazing ! well done dude !

[@robertr4193]

While typically I am not a fan of a painted body on a guitar the front was too far gone on this one to do anything else. I was glad to see you do a natural wood finish clear on the sides and back it really is a fantastic improvement what you've done to the guitar over what it looked like before you started

[@eternalme6077]

My God whoever did that to the guitar committed a heinous crime against the instrument, it was nothing short of a Travesty! What a great video, you did a great job........she came out beautiful. 🎸♥️

[@JR-tr1df]

Interesting enough, back in the 70s while working the fair circuit ran into a band who had incredible playing instruments painted the most gawd awful things you could envision. They got tired of getting their equipment stolen, so made the stuff look so hideous no one wanted it. Worked.

[@firefly44220]

I agree 💯

[@firefly44220]

@@JR-tr1dfthat’s wild! 😂

[@bryanp8010]

While beat up, the old color scheme was awesome

[@davidebracaliofficial]

Non riesco a credere che qualcuno abbia maltrattato una Gibson in quella maniera. Complimenti per il tuo ottimo lavoro di restauro 😊

[@ricardoandrade7575]

Very good work man, kaizen, only things I d do different would be black reflector knobs and no pickguard, otherwise it's perfect

[@DimaS-np3jd]

Впечатляющая работа!Это подтверждает количество просмотров для видео вообще без слов!

[@leonardo57]

Beautiful job, exelent finish 👌👌🫶

[@maurizioferegalli6850]

A really great job!!! 🙂

[@jasonsapp792]

Really classy transformation... I like you kept the P90's

[@jimcoppa6946]

Absolutely amazing and beautiful very innovative and artistic amazing job thank you so well done you're the best

[@nazriqahmad]

This is so incredibly satisfying to watch, it's a total makeover! Also, your guitar playing is also amazing!

[@youpeopl_music3220]

That was quite the transformation! This has been my favorite episode so far! Excellent effort, skill and craftsmanship! Good work! 👍🏾🤘🏾

[@martindoman7315]

Wonderfully satisfying to watch.

[@pabloemy]

wow! Qué trabajo impresionante 👏🏽 Si no es uno de tus mejores restauraciones está cerca. Te quedó hermosa! Saludos desde Argentina

[@garyburley1960]

what you did to that Gibson looks better than a brand new Gibson, i know which one i would pick. just beautiful. maestro

[@the_panos]

love the Iceman finish on that LPJ and it sounds tremendous in your demo too! Might have to get this paint and refinish my white melody maker from 2011 this way...

[@pvdguitars2951]

Amazing work as usual brother!!! Personally, I would have gone for gold top and cream humbuckers ( the original routs were for humbuckers).

[@giuseppezambotti8576]

What a great job! Kudos!

[@Reign_In_Blood_963]

Great job bringing that abused LPJ back to life. I think you installed the bridge backwards, the screws usually are accessed from the tailpiece side of the bridge.

[@danielktdoranie]

Man, some people do really stupid stuff to their guitars.

[@Schmigly_Beanpole]

My first thought was “maybe this was a cheap knockoff of a Les Paul.” Then I saw the serial number and was pretty convinced that it was real. I’m still flabbergasted.

[@danielktdoranie]

@@Schmigly_Beanpole oh it’s real, 100%

[@Schmigly_Beanpole]

@@danielktdoranie it makes the crazy epoxy coating much worse in context now lol

[@danielktdoranie]

@@Schmigly_Beanpole pretty sure it is a Gibson Henry Juszkiewicz era “LPJ” which stands for Les Paul Juszkiewicz, not Les Paul Junior, believe it or not! They cost $1099 new with Gibson branded gig bag. They came in satin “rubbed” finishes and had painted over unexposed body binding. They were sold in 2013 and 2014. Came in Cherry, Chocolate, Goldtop, Rubbed Trans White and Rubbed Vintage Burst. They are one of the few Gibson guitars that have not gained in value and usually sell for $800 to $900 used.

[@danielktdoranie]

Also, personally, if I was OP I would be conflicted… do I give it the original cherry finish, replace the wood and route it for humbuckers like it was from the factory or do I do what OP did and make it my own and damn the collector value? I guess if I wanted to sell it and get to make a profit at some point I would try to get it as close as possible to original… but if I was gonna keep it and play it I would have made it a gold top, kept the P90s and make it as close to a 1956 Les Paul standard as I could. The reason being that any buyer is gonna try to deduct value based on the dad that it is not original.

[@gaelrmnf]

loved the turnstile riffs

[@skalewilly]

What a great job in thi guitar!!! Congrats!!! I enjoy your restorations videos!!!