Colonel R purchased it used from Elderly Instruments in Lansing MI in 2005 & got a good'un. Gibson's quality seems to be all over the board these days, one can get an econo model like this one, a "Les Paul Faded DC" and get a really nice guitar or upon occasion pay a zillion dollars for one and get a really pedestrian one.

Colonel R has always been partial to P-90 pickups, having played an Epiphone Casino (a real one, from Kalamazoo, not the reissue junk) from 1972 through the early '90's.

The other guitar is one borrowed from Colonel Tom's arsenal, a Fender Special Edition Koa Telecaster ..... yeah, it's not really a traditionalist's Tele, but it sure sounds good!

That's it at the moment...... there are a couple guitars on the wish list in case the jet stream decides to plop DB Cooper's money in the back yard, specifically a Martin HD-28V, a Rickenbacker 660/12 and perhaps, pending a live, in person evaluation if one can ever be located, a Collings 290.

Gone but not forgotten: '65 Epiphone Olympic Double (silver fox), '65 Rickenbacker 360 Fireglo, '47 Martin 00-18, '65 Gibson Firebird V, '66 Epiphone Casino Sunburst, late '80's Fender Stratocaster chocolate brown, '86 Paul Reed Smith Standard magenta pearl (it looked like it was dipped in a bottle of Pepto-Bismol.......hideous but jeez it was a sweet guitar!) & most recently and most lamented, used car lot refinished '61 Fender Stratocaster........sigh