Gibson '64-65 Tbirds...Custom Colors

mc2NY · October 11, 2012, 09:37:32 AM

Does anyone know how prevalent custom color 1964-65 reverse TBirds with the matching headstocks were?

I've only seen photos of a few. Most of the custom color ones I've seen have had the black headstock with only the edge painted to match the body.

Anyone know what determined which way a custom color one was painted? Did it have to do with the particular color, or as-ordered by the customer....or just whatever mood the paint guy was in that day?

Also....was there any standard rule on custom colored TBirds as far as Gibson painting the control cavity to match or was it still silver? Same with the truss cavity? Or was the rule "NO rules!" and they all just vary?

Anyone have good photos of original custom colored examples with and without the headstocks matching?

Here's a nice '64 Cardinal Red one

uwe · October 12, 2012, 03:56:24 AM

Ah, finally someone agrees with me!!! There are people here adamant that all black headstocks are refinishes. Not so.

godofthunder · October 12, 2012, 05:43:38 AM

I concur. By spec they should be matching color, in practice I believe you will see both.

uwe · October 12, 2012, 07:15:27 AM

If it's Gibson, it has been done sometime somewhere.

Pilgrim · October 12, 2012, 02:26:48 PM

Quote from: uwe on October 12, 2012, 07:15:27 AM
If it's Gibson, it has been done sometime somewhere.

And done oddly, if it was for a bass.

uwe · October 12, 2012, 02:53:27 PM

Oddliness is next to godliness!

mc2NY · October 17, 2012, 09:01:21 AM

Speaking of "oddliness"......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360497404857
Original Vintage 1965 Gibson Firebird III 3 RARE Reverse Body Non Headstock

uwe · October 17, 2012, 09:40:00 AM

But (in a voice filled with anxiety) won't Big Bird (a non-income tax payer if I've ever seen one!) be out of a job very soon once the Latter Day Bain has taken over?!!!!

the mojo hobo · October 17, 2012, 09:55:27 AM

I found this picture on my computer and have no information at all about it.

OldManC · October 17, 2012, 12:02:32 PM

Quote from: uwe on October 17, 2012, 09:40:00 AM
But (in a voice filled with anxiety) won't Big Bird (a non-income tax payer if I've ever seen one!) be out of a job very soon once the Latter Day Bain has taken over?!!!!

Dude makes more than Romney! He'll be fine without the extra scratch.

Dave W · October 17, 2012, 01:32:37 PM

I like Big Bird. Slow roasted.

gweimer · October 17, 2012, 01:48:36 PM

Quote from: OldManC on October 17, 2012, 12:02:32 PM
Dude makes more than Romney! He'll be fine without the extra scratch.

Sesame Street doesn't rely on federal funding. It is self-reliant and gets its own funding. It's a lot of the smaller PBS stations that will be in jeapordy.

clankenstein · October 17, 2012, 02:23:40 PM

wot? a politician saying something thats not strictly true?

Rob · October 17, 2012, 02:51:29 PM

Quote from: gweimer on October 17, 2012, 01:48:36 PM
Sesame Street doesn't rely on federal funding. It is self-reliant and gets its own funding. It's a lot of the smaller PBS stations that will be in jeapordy.

No, we gave them some money for new jobs

Highlander · October 17, 2012, 04:37:38 PM

Quote from: Dave W on October 17, 2012, 01:32:37 PM
I like Big Bird. Slow roasted.

(children are coughing and spluttering, running to their parents with tears streaming from their eyes, inconsolable with grief, all across the Mid West)

Dave, next you'll be inferring that Santa is a ficticious figure and his workshop is (tax deductably) not based at (or in the region of) the North Pole...