Sorry and I'm coming back home

[Phelonious Ponk]

If I wanted a Gibson I'd buy a used Hamer. Or a new PRS SE.

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[tweeddeluxe]

Scratch that LP itch with an Agile from Rondo.

[Hiker]

My Les Paul copy weighs 8 lbs., 2 oz. I guess the 'mahogany' is not very dense!

The way it plays with the current setup-I've got no plans to sell this 10 year old.

[Twang Man]

theres room in my coral for a LP. mine is an Epiphone though but still, it's a real nice player and sounds great through a Marshall.

My Dad once said "son if you own a Les Paul you won't be cold on a night, chop her up and she'll burn for ages".

here she is...

[twangplank]

I had a Lester that was a 13 pounder. It played great and looked cool because it was original candy apple red. I sold it though and now I play a Paul Reed Smith cu 24 that is lighter and sounds great.

I must admit if I found a flame top, light weight Lester I could afford I'd like to have one but the prs is so much like a cross between a fender and gibby it would be hard to go back.

[xtrajerry]

Funny thread.. I put down some $$$ on a 58 custom shop a couple weeks ago.. over priced vs fender oh yeah but compared to what I see others paying for LP's think I got a very good deal. May be selling my 52 Hot Rod to help pay for it, really don't see me picking it up much since I got my RK..

[lewis]

Nothing wrong with a Gibson as long as you have more Fenders in your stable.

[jonhart]

So I have regained my sanity and once again know that a Fender Guitar or two or three or four or.... IS ALL YOU NEED!!!!
[/QUOTE]

That is the one of the greatest phrases I've ever read. You are officialy a Fender guy. It's all I use, two Teles and two Strats. You have some nice guitars in that pic. You only realy need two electrics, my other two are just for fun. It gives me more tone options.

[Vladimir]

Originally Posted by cynic79

It's a bit unfair to compare the price of a Les Paul to even an American made Telecaster. One is a bolt-on neck guitar with a flat body. The other is a set-neck guitar with a carved (and often flamed) maple top, as well as neck and body binding. Of course the latter is going to cost more!

True, but you can get all those features in an MIC Epiphone or Ibanez for the price of a Squier. Just sayin'.

[CyanideJunkie]

My first American guitar was a Les Paul Classic in Heritage Cherry Burst I got through a Gibson supporting deal; the Les Paul will forever hold a special place in my heart. I own a Sam Ash exclusive LP Trad that originally retailed for about the same price I paid for my Nocaster. If I hadn't been able to wrangle the price down by $500, I probably wouldn't have gotten it at all!

That being said, it complements my Nocaster perfectly. Now all that's left is a Gretsch White Penguin and a nice acoustic...

[Red Square]

I like Les Paul guitars way more than I like Les Paul guitar forums.

[Sollophonic]

Until about a year and I half ago I was a definate Fender player, until I bought a cheap Gibson Melody maker and fell in love with the thing.

So much so that I then recently bought a 2003 Les Paul Melody Maker.

I am very partial to the lower end Gibsons like the Juniors, MMs and the Specials, even had a tryout of a Les Paul Studio and liked it too.

But I have never got on with Standards and Customs, they are just too bulky and heavy for me.

But although I love Teles, I am very fond of Gibsons slabsters too.

[DannyBigShots]

You can do what I did, I had the Lester itch but didn't have the cash for a Gibson, or even an Epiphone for that matter. So I bought a kit and built one! Plays just as well as any Epiphone I've encountered, after some pickup upgrades and whatnot. I just cant see myself putting down that kind of money for a Gibson when I could buy a MUCH nicer tele for the same price or less!

[EsquireOK]

Nice Blackie!

I'd get a used Junior at least 8 or 10 years old to scratch that Les Paul itch. My '01 Junior is an awesome guitar, and I am as critical as anyone with brains of how Gibsons are made right now. Those Les Paul Melody Makers were great guitars too. Get one used, and you've basically got a $250 to $300 Junior, as those models were made with a P90. The big difference is that Jrs. have a wraparound, in the traditional Jr. style.

[Dustin_John]

I love both Gibsons and Fenders, my main guitar is the Warmoth Les Paul I put together a few years ago, but it's a bolt on neck, and I know people get all up in arms about bolt on vs. set neck, but I'll take the knowledge that if something happens to the neck of my guitar I can get a new one on by myself within an hour. I have so many friends with amazing Gibsons that they essentially scrapped after a headstock break. I love the customization that seems to be so freely encouraged with Fenders, I love that you can buy a pretty nice guitar for a few hundred dollars and upgrade it, mod it, do whatever you damn well please and really make it unique

[CyanideJunkie]

Originally Posted by Red Square

I like Les Paul guitars way more than I like Les Paul guitar forums.

Heh, I know what you mean. Fun guys they are, but a bit prone to hyperbole sometimes.

[psyched]

I got an Ibanez jazzbox on the cheap, that scratches my itch for buckers. I like the scale of Fender necks, I want to fight with the guitar a little. :)

[Camplain]

OP, Good to have ya back lol.... I know what you mean about those LP prices... I had the Gibson fever a few years back, ended up with a used 76RI Explorer, think it cost somewhere around $700... Put in a pair of Seth Lover's to get more of a classic clean sound... Now it sounds like an old LP to my ears, cost a lot less, and I like that it raises eyebrows when people expect to hear Metallica riffs and I hit em with some swampy Jerry Reed... lol

I love my Strat and Tele, but some songs just call for that Gibby sound... I believe if you're just after the LP tonal palette all you really need is any guitar with a big mahogany body and the right set of buckers, and you're there... worked well enough for me anyway...

Shoot, if ya wanna save even more and have some nice Gibsonesque tones on tap you could just put a 4 way switch in one of those nice 52RIs you've got, may not sound exactly like a gibson, but it will get ya closer than you might think.

[vinny199]

Originally Posted by soulman969

I think the Les Pauls and the 335's where the only good idea they ever had. Most of the rest look like they got the body design from a Picasso painting.

I don't think so... It was the firebird! their best idea, the coolest looking, best sounding guitar after the telecaster and the strat. (of course not the X one, but the normal models, even the recent ones such as the 2011 model is awsome)

[TexGoneNW]

Gibson has a lot of guitars I don't/wouldn't mind having in the arsenal, but ah likes my Teles. I like my weird branded stuff, too. Heck, I try to find the good in every guitar that catches my eye, pass on most, and try to buy the best of the rest.