wonder how it tasted ?   

When I was a teen, I acquired a '52 gold top Les Paul,in mint shape for less than $200. I didn't like the colour, so I stripped it to natural and changed the trapeze bridge for a tunomatic, put Grover gears on... it looked way cool and screamed for days.... traded it a couple of years later for a cheap Gibson 12 string acoustic... later on I sure regretted it, but I was a kid... and in the 60's there were a lot more cheap 50's guitars around....