Gregor Hilden - guitar-seller / guitarist See my webshop for available guitars: http://www.gregsguitars.de (German and english site) FAQs Please go to: http://www.gregsguitars.de FAQs on this site too - including: explaining the recording setup, what strings and plek I play, what amp and microphone plus plus..! I'm located in Münster/Germany and my job is: making music, CDs, doing concerts, buying/selling guitars. The guitars in my videos are owned by myself and the inventory is changing every day because I buy and sell as a professional guitar dealer. Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedal available - e-mail to hilden@muenster.de CDs: At Amazon, CD Baby on I Tunes, plus physical CDs in stores or by mailorder, check out for Gregor Hilden.
This is my personal all-time favourite guitar! This heavily modified battered bastard originally featured P-90 pickups, but was routed out to accommodate humbucker pickups. Now it is the home for an original old PAF in the bridge position and an original '63 Patent Number at the neck. One previous owner also had weight relief chambers routed into the body -- not exactly an example of fine Gibson craftsmanship, but in a rather crude way: holes were drilled into the body from the back and then covered with a thick bottom veneer. However, the veneer work is not easily detectable. Additionally, the headstock has been broken several times (expert luthier Boris Dommenget performed the final bullet-proof headstock restauration); a third pickup cavity had been routed in the middle position and refilled again; a Bigsby vibrato system had been installed and removed again; several refrets have been performed -- this guitar has been through it all! The sound is just divine -- somewhere in between a Les Paul and an ES-335. The neck shape is perfect, like an original '59. And the guitar weighs in at only 3.8 kgs! The funny thing about it is that this guitar was part of a trade-in deal when I sold my original 1959 Les Paul Standard many years ago -- the '59 being the more valuable and revered guitar for most. But as soon as I picked up the goldtop, it immediately felt like "my" guitar -- and it took me only 2 seconds to realize that it would be my main guitar for the rest of my life! This gorgeous goldtop has been featured extensively on many of my CDs and on my DVD "Live at the Luna Bar" and it proudly stars the cover of my instrumental CD "Golden Voice Blues" and the new CD "In Phase". The Nashville bridge now has been replaced with an ABR-1 bridge since).
Clean in the middle part / later with Okko Diablo Gain+ Overdrive / Amp: Fender Vibroverb (original 1963), Vahlbruch Spacetime Delay, Korg Pitchblack Tuner. Chicken Pick picks (great picks, available from my site!)
German Site:
Informationen zu den Gitarren, FAQs, Fotos, Preisangaben etc. gibt es auf meiner Homepage: http://www.gregorhilden.de/guitars-and-amps-for-sale.html Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedeal is also available here
English Site:
For FAQs and more detailed information on the instruments presented here / close-up fotos, pricings etc, please go to my website http://www.gregorhilden.de/guitars-and-amps-for-sale-int.html