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Old 15th August 2006   #1
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The hand-aged Gibson Les Paul Special is a replica of the 1960 original, but an American master craftsman made it exactly the way the guitar would look today, complete with aging cracked paint and tiny dents from scuffs and scratches.

What's more unique, the instrument isn't sold anywhere else but in guitar-loving Japan, where the entire limited edition of the electric guitars are sold out, underlining this nation's never-ending affair with American guitars.
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I've seen them for sale in London. cracked paint etc, the ones I saw were goldtops
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Fender had the "instant old" models 14 or 15 years ago, which I thought was quite stupid. Even ESP has toyed with the old look....And as much as I love Stevie Ray, why would anyone want to have a close replica of his guitar? They gonna buy the bolo tie and hat also?
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They do this with motorcycles, too. I was checking out a friend's Harley Davidson and I thought it was a totally vintage bike, but she said it was a new bike with some old parts and some aged parts made to look like an old bike.

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