Great story and thanks for the link, Brian! I can't stand those trapezoid tailpieces, nothing stable to rest your picking hand on.
I wanted a Lester before I even started playing and my first electric was a Les Paul copy, tobacco sunburst of course! My first good axe was a maple necked Fender strat with a humbucker because the whole Eddie Van Halen thing, that was early 1982; I ended up with a total of 4 strats with humbuckers & Floyd Rose setups. I didn't get my tobacco Lester until 1990, and that was my first Les Paul.
Those wrap around bridges have a great tone, completely different from the tune-a-matic bridge. The Custom I had sounded dark; I think a wrap around bridge would've done the trick.
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The Firebird, GTO & LeMans are gone...the garage is now occupied by 2005 Porsche 997 C2S and more guitars in the house...
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