LES PAUL'S GEAR AUCTION!!!!!

Anvil Amps Alan · Post by **Anvil Amps Alan** » Mon May 14, 2012 11:39 am

Check out flip through catalogue. (link under picture)
Drool.........

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions ... index.html

Scooter13 · Post by **Scooter13** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:08 pm

Wow. Some cool looking gats in there! One on page 96 is cool!

alanp · Post by **alanp** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:30 pm

An insane amount of gear there.

The Nocaster with the little story next to it was pretty cool, though

Some Bozo · Post by **Some Bozo** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:33 pm

Blimey!

vintage52 · Post by **vintage52** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:11 pm

A world of history wrapped up in a compendium of one mans life.

That's just fantastic.

Love to get my hands on his valve collection!

And definitely take the No Caster on page 384!

I remember seeing on youtube where Les would use a machine that massaged his hands on a daily basis to ease up the arthritis and allow him to work in his work shop.

What a cool dude!

Aquila Rossa · Post by **Aquila Rossa** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:26 pm

All those flash gats and stuff many could only dream of owning and yet he used Boss effects.

mr_sooty · Post by **mr_sooty** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:39 pm

Amazing collection, seems a shame to split it up. They should just put it all in a museum. The Les Paul Museum.

Not a big Strat guy then.

alanp · Post by **alanp** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:40 pm

I read in an interview somewhere that Les Paul was working on a cheaper, better sounding hearing aid, right before he passed away. I'd love to know what became of that.

Sounds like he was good mates with Leo, though.

bobiron · Post by **bobiron** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:03 pm

Yeah but what is in the Paulverizer that's what I want to know. They did not list that separately, but one is built into a cab.

vintage52 · Post by **vintage52** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:24 pm

bobiron wrote:Yeah but what is in the Paulverizer that's what I want to know. They did not list that separately, but one is built into a cab.

That would be quite amazing to have a look at.

Some Bozo · Post by **Some Bozo** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:24 pm

Usually the les paulveriser was a prop while they played back prerecorded tapes of his sound experiments, but some incarnations had a working tape delay for live effects, no doubt built or customised by the man himself.

electric68 · Post by **electric68** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:36 pm

Wow, it's almost worth a trip for the auction preview.

I saw his bench vice is up for auction - it's probably no ordinary bench vice, he would have modified it with multi-stage constantly variable gearing, motorized swivel base, adaptive jaws, and of course a tape loop.

Hot_Grits · Post by **Hot_Grits** » Mon May 14, 2012 4:42 pm

Wow. Take out all the guitars and there's still so much amazing stuff.

Love that pic at the end of Brian Setzer wearing EVH's 5150 Kramer.

Post by **Slowy** » Mon May 14, 2012 4:47 pm

So much stuff! And possibly some undersetimated items. P 191 has a Reissue LP, serial number 9 00005, est $1000-1500. I'll take it

hamo · Post by **hamo** » Mon May 14, 2012 8:46 pm

slowfingers wrote:So much stuff! And possibly some undersetimated items. P 191 has a Reissue LP, serial number 9 00005, est $1000-1500. I'll take it

Yeah, USD or not, I'm having a few WTF moments with their indicative pricing. As little as I know about vintage guitars, I doubt some of those would list on eBay for prices that low, never mind the fact that they were owned by Les Paul.

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