1962 Gibson Les Paul Junior. Real Brazilian Rosewood fretboard nice and dark. Les Paul Jr silkscreen on headstock.  This guitar’s tone and sustain are unbelievable. And when you put the guitar up to your nose you can smell the wonderful scent of the old wood. What else is there to say about this guitar. If you are looking for a 1962 Gibson Les Paul Junior, or an original early SG Jr, you know all about it and know that this is a really good price for one of these. The pictures of the stripped down guitar are from when I first got it about five years ago, I included them here to show the natural ageing of the guitar. The pictures of the guitar all set up is how the guitar is currently, the current setup matches the description written below.  It came to me with number 10 strings and I played it for about two minutes just to make sure everything worked. Then I “stripped it down” right away to polish it with Music Nomad polish and cleaned and oiled the fretboard with Dunlop 01 followed by Dunlop 02. I noticed, as you can see in the pictures, that it had screwholes under the Jr tuners for regular Kluson tulip tuners, so I went ahead and put away the hardware that it came with and put on Kluson Tulip tuners, as I personally prefer the chunkier plastic of them, and didn’t want to chance ruining the old Junior tuners because I was planning to play this guitar, not have it be a show piece on a pedestal. Therefore, I also changed the bridge that it came with for an unslotted Golden Age low profile wraparound bridge from StewMac. Mainly because I like how the bevel of the bridge allows your palm to perfectly rest on it, and also I like that the bridge looks like teeth to go with the bite of the guitar, and the unnotched saddles match the feel of a traditional lightning bridge of the mid 60s juniors.  The strings that are on it now are 11 gauge strings tuned to DGCFAD to give a darker tone effect. I actually play this guitar with the low string in “drop C” tuning quite often because I love the growl that this particular guitar can create with such a tuning (I believe such sound is attainable because of the combination of the 60+ year 1-piece prime mahogany body , the now unattainable Brazilian rosewood fretboard, and the unmistakable characteristics of the classic P90 pickup).  But I am sure the first thing somebody will do that buys such a guitar, is take off the existing strings and put their own new favorite brand and size strings on it. So I will keep my strings on rather than put new ones on only for the buyer to cut them off anyway.  I left the amazing p90 and the pots alone, I only changed up the cosmetics I just mentioned, for a more modern personal feel since I already had it “stripped down” to polish and oil anyway. It looks like someone had installed either some kind of tremolo or stop tail piece at some point, and then either that same person or someone else plugged the two holes and re-finished that particular small area to match the original guitar finish. They did a really good job, as it's hard to notice except if you know and actually look for it, but even then it is barely visible. It’s probably not worth mentioning, because it’s almost not even noticeable, but I saw it when I was polishing it, so I would like to mention it so it’s no surprise if at some point somebody does notice it. As any seasoned guitarist will agree, it in no way affects its playability nor roaring tone nor tremendous sustain. Over the years I’ve learned that such changes to these guitars were not uncommon, and this just adds to this particular guitar’s history, intrigue and charm. It makes you wonder in what hands this guitar has been, and what bars or maybe even what venues this guitar has seen in the sixty-one years of its life.

 
The guitar will come with the setup mentioned above. The parts that it came with which I took off, will come individually wrapped to protect them, and put in a bag in the case so that you can have them if you ever want them. I do not want to put them back on, because I am realistic, and have no idea what condition the tuners are in even though they seemed to be working fine when I got the guitar five years ago, but under constant tension and stress of hard playing, you never know. And if you start playing the guitar with the old tuners, depending on how you play and how rough you get with such a monster sounding guitar, who knows, and I don’t want to be blamed for something that somebody causes by being rough. They look fine, and they’re probably fine if you use the guitar with normal playing. But with the tough playing many people say that it deserves, as you know, who knows, they are really old. If you’re looking for such a guitar, I am sure you will understand and agree.

This guitar will be shipped in a newer alligator style case which will invoke the feeling of the original alligator cases that these came with, but in a modern usable form. Will be shipped within one business day of purchase, well packaged, safely and securely with insurance and signature required. Thank you, and whoever purchases this please enjoy playing it and take care of it, and don’t abuse it as it is a 61-year-old guitar. Please don’t just let it sit around as an investment either, this guitar deserves to be played. That is why it will be handed to you as a playable guitar as I have described, not as a delicate museum showpiece.  Clean, smoke-free, pest-free home.