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Gear Discussion Forums => Guitars Etc. => Topic started by: Dave W on July 27, 2017, 08:57:15 PM

Title: '59 Melody Maker with "marks and scuffs"
Post by: Dave W on July 27, 2017, 08:57:15 PM

"shows normal signs of wear." (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-1959-Melody-Maker-6-String-Guitar-/302393464967)

Nice Gibson logo and serial number! Where the hell did those tuners come from? What is that brass plate with the acorn nuts holding together?

Title: Re: '59 Melody Maker with "marks and scuffs"
Post by: bassilisk on July 28, 2017, 03:53:58 AM

Ooooo...my guitar player has been perving for one of these since he first heard Leslie West.
I passed this along.

I can only imagine the plate is protecting the beginnings of a split.

Title: Re: '59 Melody Maker with "marks and scuffs"
Post by: Dave W on July 28, 2017, 06:18:10 AM

If you zoom in on that last pic, it looks like there's a crack along the grain just below the headstock/neck transition Then there's the fact that '59 MMs didn't have a volute, yet the transition looks like one, which shows that the headstock has been thinned quite a bit.

Title: Re: '59 Melody Maker with "marks and scuffs"
Post by: Highlander on July 28, 2017, 12:44:58 PM

I suspect those bolts are all that is holding that whitling at the head together... Jackie particularly like the carved Gibson logo...