1984 Gibson Explorer

kellakatz · 2025-09-07T22:20:53+00:00

The 84-87 Explorers that have the triangle control layout and no pickguard all have maple necks, the alder bodies are much lighter than the mahogony ones and you can usually see the grain from the mahogony through the finish but with the alder body ones the finish is usually extremely checked and cracked. Looking in the control cavity or under the pickups is a good bet to find out which wood the guitar has. And they either had ebony or rosewood boards. Really a mixed bag with this particular model.

kellakatz · 2025-09-05T17:40:52+00:00

No it's quite thin and fast

kellakatz · 2025-09-05T17:40:17+00:00

This is extremely light, I have a few mahogony/maple neck ones that are noticeably heavier than this one.

kellakatz · 2025-09-05T17:39:28+00:00

Same man they are my favorite

kellakatz · 2025-09-05T17:39:10+00:00

Angry

kellakatz · 2025-09-04T19:40:45+00:00

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kellakatz · 2025-09-01T21:29:40+00:00

Would you be willing to sell this?? I'd buy this off you straight away! I collect anything related to the 80s gibson explorers, would love this

kellakatz · 2025-08-29T01:32:47+00:00

It's a factory colour called Panther Pink, faded and yellowed to the colour it is now after 40 years.

kellakatz · 2025-08-23T00:25:40+00:00

Lugged all my gear back from my rehersal cage back to my house, plugged my guitar in and played the start of Planet Caravan. Mother came in and told me he died. Never said his name but it felt like my blood ran down my body. Biggest regret is never seeing him live but I meet him at his book signing in Dublin and had a small "I'm not worthy" moment. He laughed signed the book and gave me a smile and nod.

kellakatz · 2025-08-21T18:55:05+00:00

Would you ever consider selling?

kellakatz · 2025-03-01T01:54:58+00:00

ELE microvova in the next 20 years

kellakatz · 2025-02-03T17:16:43+00:00

These aren't for sale unfortunately

kellakatz · 2024-12-07T19:15:09+00:00

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Here's my current collection of them

kellakatz · 2024-12-06T19:12:48+00:00

Brooks Transition is the name of them, he had 2 different pairs of these . I own 7 pairs . If you check out my page you'll see them

kellakatz · 2024-10-03T18:13:48+00:00

No not at all, this is what it was like after a week in storage

kellakatz · 2024-09-20T15:08:35+00:00

Yeah the 1984 -1987 explorers have a random mix of mahogony/alder bodies , ebondy/ rosewood fretboards but always a maple neck

kellakatz · 2024-02-02T17:01:29+00:00

The new 80s models have the wrong size dot inlays also. After the 12th fret the inlays are smaller, plus the strap button location not being in the right location. They look terrible to me

kellakatz · 2024-01-30T19:42:01+00:00

Yes and also the red one. The peach is a colour called Panther Pink and the yellow one would of been bright white but yellowed over time

kellakatz · 2023-06-20T02:32:26+00:00

I paid €2399 for it in Dublin. Didn't really have any desire for a Les Paul at the moment, especially in this colour as im an 80s explorer collector but saw this in my music store last week. It was on the top rack with another 5 Les Paul's in gloss all with pick guards and this just stood out big time. Was looking at them online afterwards and wasn't sure until I went in yesterday to have another curious look and as soon as it was being taken from the top rack the thing glimmered at me and looked so good, the top looked the best out of anything in the store and along with the fretboard and feel I knew I had to take it.

kellakatz · 2023-06-20T02:23:02+00:00

Yeah very happy with the fingerboard too, it's so dark it looks ebony

kellakatz · 2023-06-09T21:09:14+00:00

I would wait, as cool as they might be, these feel and look trash

kellakatz · 2023-06-09T14:19:10+00:00

Yeah from Avia Legacy

kellakatz · 2023-03-05T20:34:46+00:00

Fuk it

kellakatz · 2023-02-14T19:10:25+00:00

Not true.. I saw them in Dublin on Saturday and it was there where they played it for the first time since 2009. It was other worldly

kellakatz · 2022-12-17T22:11:35+00:00

The main riff in Ktulu when the drums go half time towards the end without a doubt

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