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Lance · March 31st, 2008, 04:18 PM

I played a pile of Gibsons recently and none were even remotely playable as is. Yeah....even the VOS models. The necks were all over the place...nothing that a decent setup wouldn't resolve but a sad joke in the $1K+ market. Most of the finishes had a number of obvious flaws. It was really depressing because I really wanted to get one.

If you want to read a scary story....you can read about my own fiasco with my '54 Historic Goldtop, it's right at the top of the page here:
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/r...c+Reissue/10/1
I still have that guitar because it sounds great.....but what a mess to get it working! Tonewise, this Les Paul is huge with its P90s and wrap around bridge.

IMHO, right now the best "Gibson Les Paul" is a Singlecut PRS SC245. It's got the LP scale length, construction, looks and tone. The best bargain LP is the PRS SEs (any of them...especially the P90 models). These blow away $1500-$2500 Gibsons in every way for about $500. I got a singlecut PRS SE One that's just perfect and sounds killer.

Gibson does make some decent guitars but the variability is too far out there. They're executives should stop checking out their fancy cars, visit their retailers and play PRSs.....then, ask the manufacturing team how they can start producing a product with that level of quality.

March 31st, 2008, 04:18 PM	#8 (permalink)
Lance Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2,180	I played a pile of Gibsons recently and none were even remotely playable as is. Yeah....even the VOS models. The necks were all over the place...nothing that a decent setup wouldn't resolve but a sad joke in the $1K+ market. Most of the finishes had a number of obvious flaws. It was really depressing because I really wanted to get one. If you want to read a scary story....you can read about my own fiasco with my '54 Historic Goldtop, it's right at the top of the page here: http://reviews.harmony-central.com/r...c+Reissue/10/1 I still have that guitar because it sounds great.....but what a mess to get it working! Tonewise, this Les Paul is huge with its P90s and wrap around bridge. IMHO, right now the best "Gibson Les Paul" is a Singlecut PRS SC245. It's got the LP scale length, construction, looks and tone. The best bargain LP is the PRS SEs (any of them...especially the P90 models). These blow away $1500-$2500 Gibsons in every way for about $500. I got a singlecut PRS SE One that's just perfect and sounds killer. Gibson does make some decent guitars but the variability is too far out there. They're executives should stop checking out their fancy cars, visit their retailers and play PRSs.....then, ask the manufacturing team how they can start producing a product with that level of quality. __________________ Lance "not very good...but I make up for it by playing loud"