Heheh. I've thought about this before & strangely enough you're pretty damn close Yannis.
I feel like I've grown up with the sound of this guitar & although it has a lot to do with amps, peddles & playing I'd like to think I could put it to good use.
Of course, I'd probably have to travel a few thousand miles & kill a few innocent (& rather lovely) people to claim it as my own but, hey, thats kinda what this threads about......
I choose "Old Black"....
...unfortunately this picture is of a replica.
Here's the real one in action....
Old Black is allegedly a 1953 Gibson R6 Les Paul Goldtop. It has been customized quite considerably: after being left at a guitar repair store, the original bridge pickup was replaced by a DiMarzio single-coil pickup and a mini-humbucker pickup from a Gibson Firebird guitar, and a P-90 pickup at the neck. It was roughly resprayed to jet black, and received a new Tune-o-matic bridge (not available when the guitar was produced) and a B-7 model Bigsby vibrato tailpiece. It would presumably also have had a white plastic pickguard at some point, as was standard on 1953 Goldtops. Old Black is notable for its metal hardware, including an aluminum pickguard, which produces additional feedback—a tone characteristic of many of Neil Young's guitar sounds. The rest of the hardware is mostly nickel. The headstock displays a partially painted-over mother-of-pearl inlay, sometimes referred to as a "wheat stack", rather than the typical "Les Paul Model" silk screened logo, which makes this model unique and may suggest that either the neck was replaced with a neck from another Gibson-model (most likely a Gibson SG) guitar at one time or that the guitar is not a 1953 vintage but, rather, a re-issue Gold Top "Deluxe" from 1968.
EDIT - Any better pictures would be welcome.
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