FORMERLY OWNED GUITAR
1982 Avila Les Paul Copy



---purchased: new from Balboa Music, San Diego (1983)
---owned: 1983-1986
---disposition: parted out/trashed (1986)
---disposition reason: destroyed the plywood body getting the pickup out
---part(s) kept: wrap bridge (still have it!)
---related picture(s): circa July 1985 - only picture I have of the original Avila neck (resting on the Peavey T-60 body), circa July 1985 - with my full collection (far right), circa July 1985 - with others (far left), circa July 1985 - the original chrome Avila wrap-around tailpiece
---related guitar(s): Avila (Epiphone) Les Paul Copy
---notes: bought this guitar in early June 1983 with the first paycheck from my first job (Baskin-Robbins); I think it was $99; I have no pictures of that guitar as it looked stock; replaced stock bolt-on neck with wrong-scale Hondo neck (not the 1983 Hondo Strat) in early 1985


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