For the serious business end of selling - a 25 pound postal scale - kg.//lb./oz. Never an issue.
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I'm curious about other owners experiences with their Gibson LP's.
I've only ever owned one LP, purely because of their price here, and it's gone up $1500NZD since I brought it. The one I own, a 2018 traditional, I chose after doing a lot of homework, and it seemed like the most similar at the time of it's manufacture to the specs I wanted body wise. No weight relief or chambering.
During my hours of trawling the internet for info, I read that Gibson apparently changed the specs in 2009 so the Standard has more modern features, and the Traditional took up the build specs, body wise at least, where the Standard left off.
I have to say, that it hasn't been love at first jam for me.
I've had a love/hate relationship with it.
One day I'd pick it up and love it, the next I would consider selling it because I felt I couldn't gel with it.
But after a year or more now, I feel that I'm getting along great, and understand it better, and how it is set up to play.
It's definitely a soft touch feeling guitar, and it's taught me to adjust the way I was playing.
Possibly a combination of the guitar breaking in?
Definitely a bit of me understanding it better.
The tuning is really stable, which was an off putting factor in some of the reading I encountered, but now I feel that can be partly due to playing a soft touch guitar ham fisted, as with 010's on it, it's light enough to bend whole chords!
If it starts to need any sort of regular tuning, I Graphite the nut and change the strings. Problem solved
Complaints?
Well, I'm not a fan Burstbucker pro's.
They're ok, but don't cut it for heavier music. They can make your playing sound muddy/flubby even if you're tight, but dialing back the vol pot a little helps a lot.
But the saddles, for a high end price axe, are a cheap looking crap design, and will probably get an upgrade when I finally decide on what pup's to transplant into it.
This LP is ''out of the box'' and never had a set up, so that's pretty amazing that it feels like it does, and as soon as you plug it in, it has an instantly recognizable sound that any number of rock bands has exhibited in the past.
I'm liking it a lot now, but was wondering how others have liked/disliked theirs, and would like to hear a comparison of those who have owned a Traditional, or a Standard, and a customshop.
Cheers
View attachment 87987
I'm curious about other owners experiences with their Gibson LP's.
I've only ever owned one LP, purely because of their price here, and it's gone up $1500NZD since I brought it. The one I own, a 2018 traditional, I chose after doing a lot of homework, and it seemed like the most similar at the time of it's manufacture to the specs I wanted body wise. No weight relief or chambering.
During my hours of trawling the internet for info, I read that Gibson apparently changed the specs in 2009 so the Standard has more modern features, and the Traditional took up the build specs, body wise at least, where the Standard left off.
I have to say, that it hasn't been love at first jam for me.
I've had a love/hate relationship with it.
One day I'd pick it up and love it, the next I would consider selling it because I felt I couldn't gel with it.
But after a year or more now, I feel that I'm getting along great, and understand it better, and how it is set up to play.
It's definitely a soft touch feeling guitar, and it's taught me to adjust the way I was playing.
Possibly a combination of the guitar breaking in?
Definitely a bit of me understanding it better.
The tuning is really stable, which was an off putting factor in some of the reading I encountered, but now I feel that can be partly due to playing a soft touch guitar ham fisted, as with 010's on it, it's light enough to bend whole chords!
If it starts to need any sort of regular tuning, I Graphite the nut and change the strings. Problem solved
Complaints?
Well, I'm not a fan Burstbucker pro's.
They're ok, but don't cut it for heavier music. They can make your playing sound muddy/flubby even if you're tight, but dialing back the vol pot a little helps a lot.
But the saddles, for a high end price axe, are a cheap looking crap design, and will probably get an upgrade when I finally decide on what pup's to transplant into it.
This LP is ''out of the box'' and never had a set up, so that's pretty amazing that it feels like it does, and as soon as you plug it in, it has an instantly recognizable sound that any number of rock bands has exhibited in the past.
I'm liking it a lot now, but was wondering how others have liked/disliked theirs, and would like to hear a comparison of those who have owned a Traditional, or a Standard, and a customshop.
Cheers
I love my Les Pauls @Gaz Baker, the Les Paul, to me, is the epitome of a Rock & Roll guitar.
I bought my first LP in 1971, I was 15 years old, yeah I’m old, lol! It was a brand new 1971 Les Paul Deluxe in Sunburst, (more like Clownburst), I loved that guitar but I stupidly sold it 3 years later. This is the only pic, or a piece of a pic, they I have of it.
My next LP was a Custom, I had wanted a Gibson Les Paul Custom for the longest time. In 1982 I started looking for my future Custom, and in those days there was no internet, no Guitar Center or Musicians Friend.
No big guitar stores, mostly mom and pop places except large cities. I searched every guitar store within about a 100 mile radius of my home, I couldn’t find what I wanted.
What I wanted was a Wine Red Custom LP, that plays good. There were no WR Custom LPs anywhere, none,...only Black and White, and they were few and far between.
I finally ended up at Rainbow Music in New Paltz NY. They didn’t have any either, but the salesman said they could order it for me, it would take about 4 or 5 weeks. I had no idea I could do that!
Back in those day you could order a stock USA Gibson, so I did. About 4 weeks later it was ready and I picked it up!
I opened the giant hard plastic Protector case Gibson was using ATT, better known as the ‘chainsaw’ case,....and I almost passed out from the strong smell of the nitro lacquer.
The guitar turned out to be a great playing, and sounding Les Paul and I was happy! The whole 4 weeks I was worrying so much that I’ll get a dog, that I almost canceled it. I’m glad I didn’t, I still have that Les Paul today,...
Lastly is my 2006 Studio Premium Plus in Natural. This model LPs were only made for 3 years, 2006- 2008 I believe.
It was my 50 birthday and me and my lovely wife took a weekend and traveled around the Florida guitar shops looking for a Les Paul. I found this one in a GC in Tampa.
I picked it up and I knew immediately it was for me, even though it wasn’t the model I wanted, and I didn’t like the looks of it at all.
I’m not a huge fan of gold hardware and the gold hardware on this particular finish LP was just soooo in your face blingy looking. But I bought it anyway because it played and sounded so good.
After a couple of years of the gold I needed to change the appearance of this LP. So I changed out the gold for nickel and put a set of double cream Dimarzios in,...
Stock,...
Now,...
Side note; this LP came with a flame mahogany neck and headstock,...
Sorry about the long post and the giant pics!
I love my Les Pauls @Gaz Baker, the Les Paul, to me, is the epitome of a Rock & Roll guitar.
I bought my first LP in 1971, I was 15 years old, yeah I’m old, lol! It was a brand new 1971 Les Paul Deluxe in Sunburst, (more like Clownburst), I loved that guitar but I stupidly sold it 3 years later. This is the only pic, or a piece of a pic, they I have of it.
My next LP was a Custom, I had wanted a Gibson Les Paul Custom for the longest time. In 1982 I started looking for my future Custom, and in those days there was no internet, no Guitar Center or Musicians Friend.
No big guitar stores, mostly mom and pop places except large cities. I searched every guitar store within about a 100 mile radius of my home, I couldn’t find what I wanted.
What I wanted was a Wine Red Custom LP, that plays good. There were no WR Custom LPs anywhere, none,...only Black and White, and they were few and far between.
I finally ended up at Rainbow Music in New Paltz NY. They didn’t have any either, but the salesman said they could order it for me, it would take about 4 or 5 weeks. I had no idea I could do that!
Back in those day you could order a stock USA Gibson, so I did. About 4 weeks later it was ready and I picked it up!
I opened the giant hard plastic Protector case Gibson was using ATT, better known as the ‘chainsaw’ case,....and I almost passed out from the strong smell of the nitro lacquer.
The guitar turned out to be a great playing, and sounding Les Paul and I was happy! The whole 4 weeks I was worrying so much that I’ll get a dog, that I almost canceled it. I’m glad I didn’t, I still have that Les Paul today,...
Lastly is my 2006 Studio Premium Plus in Natural. This model LPs were only made for 3 years, 2006- 2008 I believe.
It was my 50 birthday and me and my lovely wife took a weekend and traveled around the Florida guitar shops looking for a Les Paul. I found this one in a GC in Tampa.
I picked it up and I knew immediately it was for me, even though it wasn’t the model I wanted, and I didn’t like the looks of it at all.
I’m not a huge fan of gold hardware and the gold hardware on this particular finish LP was just soooo in your face blingy looking. But I bought it anyway because it played and sounded so good.
After a couple of years of the gold I needed to change the appearance of this LP. So I changed out the gold for nickel and put a set of double cream Dimarzios in,...
Stock,...
Now,...
Side note; this LP came with a flame mahogany neck and headstock,...
Sorry about the long post and the giant pics!
Cheap scale? Try one of these and most of them are fairly accurate. I have a couple.
