Anyone know the big or main Les Paul forum ?

[mexicanyella]

Somehow Explorers and Flying Vs don't get much hate here, it's the more pointy ones.

I haven’t even seen pointy guitar hate in the time I’ve been around TDPRI...just in the past few days there was a thread about refinishing a guy’s B.C. Rich Warlock acquisition, and the various posters who weighed in all seemed pretty intrigued and supportive.

I guess I’ve been assuming that people drawn to Teles must have some innate tendency toward general guitar interest rather than super focused niche interest.

 

[Wally]

I have never had a bad experience on the Les Paul Forum. There are knowledgeable people there, and there can be the odd problem now and then. Such is to be expected occasionally when more than one person is involved in any human interaction, ime.

 

[stratoman1]

I'm on the forum from Gibson itself. Some good info there but nothing I can't find in friendlier places. And posting pics there is pretty much impossible

 

[verb boten]

I dont get it, if you post in the mylespaul.com forum under the relevant sub forum (Epiphone, vintage, modern etc.) things go pretty smoothly from what i've seen.

I've posted in there many times and so long as Im in the right sub forum all is fine. Having recently upgraded from Epi to Gibson Standard and moved sub forum accordingly, seem to find them all pretty alright....

If you post about Epis in the vintage forum you are no doubt going to get some awkward replies.

Forum N*z*s, gear snobs, misguided etc. not much different to most other forums. TDPRI being more an exception than a rule in my experience.

MylesPaul: possibly tied in with Myles Loud? A guy i knew many years ago on another forum and IIRC, into les pauls.

 

[Maguchi]

MyLesPaul is not reputable in my opinion, because the moderators are highly biased, cater to cronies, less honest and inconsistent with the policies. They allow certain members to post at will, unchecked, while they punish or censor other members for not agreeing. I was called a name by a moderator and locked out of a thread, for correcting him on a technical question concerning vintage Gibsons. He later deleted his input from that thread to cover his tracks. And, he is one of the more active, more visable moderators on that forum. Foul.

LesPaulForum on the other hand, is very reputable, and I've never even seen a moderator identified, much less intervene into a thread! Of the seven forums I actively read, LesPaulForum is the least animated and less contentious. The one thing you need to keep in mind with LesPaulForum, they are serious about vintage Les Pauls and vintage Gibsons. The members are less interested in copies, entry levels, Tributes, etc, and don't consider lessor guitars to be equal (Tributes, Epiphones, etc). Some might consider this snobbery, but for the owners, they might consider the opposites to be posers. Which is similar here and TGP and other sites - its insulting to openly state buyers wasted 4k on their custom shop Fender, when they could have spent $199 for an equivalent Affinity Telecaster for instance. If you keep that in mind, you won't draw any flak.

Agreed - I've got two 60's Gibsons with the narrow necks, and with regular playing (like any instrument) you self-adjust to the spacing and neck. Afterall, Gibson did that by popular demand.​

^^^Agree. The Les Paul Forum has much more pleasant people. On the My Les Paul Forum sometimes I got to sort through angry, xenophobic, misogynistic posts to find the good stuff. Far right-wing posts are not unusual on there. The mods seem to be OK with it. I posted a "Happy Bastille Day" message and one of the replies was something about "Frenchy Stuff". One of pics on the jokes page was a picture of feces. No caption or anything, just a pic of a turd.The Les Paul Forum seems to stick to guitar and gear related posts.

 

[clayville]

Six year old thread. I wonder what he got for that 335?

 

[Mjark]

Yes, that's "The Big One". I was a moderator there many moons ago. The memorial is for Lily, who took over the forum from its original founder.

I used frequent the Jam Zone. There were a lot of fun people there for a while.

 

[rcole_sooner]

I like MLP, it is probably my most frequented forum outside of FB. FB is like a lot of forums all in one place. I have several groups there I really like.

Strat-Talk and this TDPRI are close seconds. I like these forums very much. I feel I get a little bit more from TDPRI than Strat-Talk.