This One Is Unbelievable! | "Gibson Certified Vintage" December 2024 Update

[@hkguitar1984]

My very first instrument was a 1967 Epiphone Rivoli Bass, it was my Cousin's Bass, he loaned it to me while I learned to play, that was back in 1974. By 1975 my Parents couldn't handle the Bass thumping through the house, my Father convinced me to switch to guitar, Thank You Dad!

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Merry Christmas Sir.

[@hkguitar1984]

@@sgt.grinch3299 Merry Christmas to You and the Family Sir. I've been checking the sky, no Santa yet..........not sure what's up there flying around these days!

[@jimmyjames2022]

So I take it your guitar wasn't running through an AMPEG stack at home, like my buddy's was at his Mom's house.?

[@HARBINGER8752]

ravioli bass

[@hkguitar1984]

@@jimmyjames2022 Ha ha ha, no, I was using my Cousin's Bass Combo amp, I think it was 65W with a single 15" speaker. When I was 15 years old I'd saved up enough money to purchase a brand new Fender Twin Reverb, that was in 1977 (Twin Reverb only cost $400 brand new). I remember sitting in my bedroom with the Twin Reverb turned up to 10.........it was then my Father realized how much he missed me playing Bass. My Father's solution was to finish off the Hayloft in our horse barn, he built a balcony and stairway to the hayloft and installed a regular doorway. That became my new practice area. I still have that Twin Reverb, our Son used it for years while he was learning to play guitar.

[@Shredward-dl2gp]

Buy the 85k Les Paul for a review! Do it now Austin!!!

[@HarryK-HK]

Thank goodness for all the copies out there so us regular folk can acquire and play.

[@martydibergi5228]

@@HarryK-HK and I started to believe the Internet that there was 2.9 million50s less Paul’s out there all original of course

[@DoctorBiobrain]

This comment is Certified Vintage. You owe me $2000 for reading it.

[@martydibergi5228]

this is a fantastically dry humour comment absolutely brilliant❤

[@trogdirtheunburninator2037]

Ah, the dreaded left-handed reading fee.

[@ExtremeGuitarNerdery59]

I think you need to release a £50,000 aged and signed collector's edition of this comment now 😂😂😂

[@joermnyc]

I would say the premium on these is: a) it’s something Gibson was holding onto. And b) any repairs or parts replacements mean it’s “factory restored” and easy to certify.

[@darrellminx5459]

Gibson should pay Trogley he is they're best advertising 😂

[@Steven-re3tx]

Hello from Alaska.

[@jimmyjames2022]

Nice set of lost and found "Certified Vintage" for Dec 2024. Leo's, the 347, and 1955 Custom all are just fine and dandy.

[@samuraiguitarist]

Man that es-295 is the stuff dreams are made of

[@ltgray2780]

That '55 Custom just made my heart rate double.

[@GreenpointRemembers]

11:15 forty five hundred! Sold!

[@littlerattyratratrat]

The ES-347 has coil-taps on the pickups, not splits. Still double coil, just lower output. I had a '79, beautiful axe. My precious. Some gollum crept up and slipped away with her back in '89. Cried myself to sleep for a month.

[@ethanhitchcock5431]

I liked the 1960 ES-335 and the 1967 Rivoli bass ..cool stuff ! Thanks trog !

[@Ethesilentkid]

Es 295 is in 1st place

[@badnamerecords7117]

The notched Howard Robert's fretboard inlays first appeared on the Epiphone Howard Roberts model in 1964. I believe it was a specification by Mr. Roberts.

[@martinhiggs7027]

I own a 100% stock 54 L/P custom, this guitar is extremely fragile and a tad heavy 10.6 lbs. also she takes a while to get the feel of her ,very very thin flat frets ! these original black beauty's or " FRETLESS WONDER'S were unique with the staple P-90 pickup and a mahogany top and neck (no maple) and one finish BLACK ! by 1956 the tiny frets were gone and by 1957 these rare instruments had drastically changed, as the incredible sideXside humbucker arrived, there beautiful but the true Black Beauty FRETLESS WONDER was gone with the P-90.

[@silvernuggets1285]

The 347 is nice. Center seam is not "uncommon" on the 60s era 335s

[@RFL_guitars]

You would think Kalamazoo could have put a left hand TRC on the 347.

[@fugamantew]

“When you could find them in $2,500” Proceeds to show off a deadbeat example😂

[@chrisghiardi117]

Prepre whatever -that is LP guitars with various late 50s style features made for big dealers go back at least to the late 1970s.

[@ibisrox1]

That custom dammmm

[@jameshughes6049]

Howdy all!!

[@svart_kors]

The Rivoli by far was my fave. I am...a bassist.

[@roberthoffecker7223]

The new Hetfield Explorer is on its way?

[@Bog_22]

Lost out on a early 65’ SG special. Wasn’t comfortable with the low logo!

[@kierenmoore3236]

Gawd, I love 347s … 🎶😍🥰✌🏼

[@1FastKawboy]

Give me the Les Paul and put the rest on the wood pile.

[@paultrombetta]

Woot woot. Leo's on Telegraph

[@tonygaruba424]

All of them, beautiful

[@longtimenoz]

too much expensive 😢❤

[@slartibartfast2452]

Buying a gibsons basically like collecting vintage furnature. Attempting to convince you that you now own something special. When its just another electric string twanger. When you can get something equivalent, if not far better than a gibson from most other companies. Who needs a gibson. You dont own something *special* if yer buying a gibson now, but you might be *special* if you buy one. I picked up a high end gibson brand new a few years ago for about 900 bucks. Thats a pretty fare price.

[@jamro217]

The Rivoli is a bargain for that price. Hard to find a good used one these days.

[@adamfindlay7091]

Gibs may as well pull out every scheme/design and hash em out into production . Bound to be a beaut out of the batch. Hopefully under $9,095.

[@clarkbabin9799]

The FR -110 looks like it should have an animal on it maybe a robin or sparrow or a small fuzzy animal like a squirrel.

[@robertb5175]

TROGG!!!

[@Intheflesh79]

Butter 🧈 Butter 🧈 Butter

[@larrynoe6162]

55 p90’s

[@rick381v69]

Any chance of some non Gibson video's?

[@georgeoh-well8116]

If I were you, I'd demand a refund for the 13 minutes and 19 seconds of your life you just wasted ! 😂

[@hectormutton2542]

✌️

[@We-all-watched-the-video]

✌️ 💩🫙

[@sgt.grinch3299]

✌️✌️

[@barrycole]

As much sense as the Murphy Lab series. Next, Gibson will be trying to sell time.

[@harlequingr]

You should consider yourself very lucky to only have to resist temptation to buy the guitar. And that it's not because you don't have the money.

[@ltgray2780]

Make the terrible mistake. Do it!

[@Kyle592]

Why is Gibson still using photos quality of 2003? I understand stock images being relatively low quality, but the ones of singular guitars are just terrible. No way I’d drop £20k on something with such low resolution images.

[@Madakalim]

Owned many guitars of different brands. Only 1 actual Gibson. I hated it. I only now own my home modded Korean made Epi frankenSG I love it

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

Same, it’s just the best way to go for an SG.

[@nigellacey559]

Epiphone revolting bass

[@grantcindrich]

Yoo

[@sgt.grinch3299]

✌️✌️

[@partycakes456]

A fool and his money...

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Z is for late.

[@cromBumny]

Was the 2nd until commercials

[@nbenning25]

Yahoo

[@GaryDGuitar]

Gibsons are boring

[@bikerjon8934]

Waffles🧇Waffles🧇Waffles

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Congrats Biker Jon✌️✌️

[@flybynight1929]

Wow, this is truly the best example yet I have seen about how big of suckers Gibson acolytes are and how Gibson knows it and just laughs all the way to the bank and their next cease and desist lawsuit. If you polish a turd, and slap a poorly constructed logo on it, it's still a turd, and many of these are just that. How they can continue to mesmerize their fans with money grabbing made up nonsense is beyond me. Example after example of crap. They seem to have zero quality control and everything passes. It's as if you bought a new car, and you could hear the wind whistling through the doors, the trunk and glove box wouldn't close unless you slammed it a few times, and the front bumper was crooked, and you decided since it was a Gibson, those wouldn't be issues, and maybe even call them 'vintage' specs, and you end up with an 'emperor has no clothes' scenario. The pick guards don't fit on any of them, with gaps and uneven fits all over. It's like they just drilled screws to mount them on the run, not caring if they were crooked, the spaces where they meet the pickup rings have no specs to follow, and they STILL can't inlay a GIBSON logo or a split diamond to save their lives. Jagged edges and flaws aren't 'cool'. And god forbid, they address the headstock breaking issues after 70 years. Someone is even selling an after market product now that you can clamp on your Gibson guitar neck joint to keep it from the inevitable neck break. They've been playing the same jokes on buyers for decades, and for the money they're getting, their build quality is beyond substandard.