Anyone know the big or main Les Paul forum ?

[radiocaster]

There are two big Les Paul forums, but you don't really need any forum to play or set up your guitar. I wouldn't have even joined this one if it didn't have the technical amp stuff.

 

[Bob Womack]

LesPaulForum has moderated a bunch from the days where only those with guitars from the early days need join or speak. I should know: my earliest LP is a '74. There used to be snickers when I would mention it and now there is just slobber from guys who love it. Now it is still a it '50s and '60s centric but there was a move over time to give more recent LPs their due, including athe rise of a couple of '70s and '80s era experts who can answer most any question about that period.

Bob

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

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.​

I agree. I also call them cork snifers. I'm am also one to a point. I say be proud of who you are. If you are a cork sniffer then be one and proud of it. But they take offence. A lot of people on the intwebs do that. That would be like if you said I eat pizza And you said that that. And I get offended. Did you say I eat pizza? Shame. Stupid I know but most do not understand it.

And if you get a guitar with 100 percent quality and no flaws cheap. And the expensive has 100 percent quality then they are the same quality. But they say no. Why? Then I hear opinons and other myths. No concrete evidence to back it up. And it gets old fast.

I hate the word quality in the guitar world. Why? All guitars have some quality. Is this brands quality as good as this brands quality. Shesh let it stand on it's own merit. I do not care for such things. Like if a person said a Squire was the best he ever owned a played. It is his opinion. He is allowed to believe it. But if you want to compare quality the lets compaire Squire to the old Kents. See my point. Quality is when you think it is great. A new guitar player thanks his strat copy is great. You say no it is not. He says why? You say cheap wood, freets hanging off, cheap pots, etccc.. Others say so too.

Then he say's it is junk. The more you pay the better it is. I hate my guitar. He did not before. He said and believed it was great quality. Then you and others changed his mind. See my point? Quality is when you decide it is quality. Or good enough. Or great with changes.

 

[50ShadesofOrange]

At a friend’s insistence, I joined MyLesPaul and was immediately unable to view any content while logged in. I have to log out to actually see anything.

It’s like they somehow knew my Les Paul was a lowly 2013 Traditional!

So I joined The Les Paul Forum, but I’ll second anyone who says it’s pretty slow. Not to mention, it doesn’t take much for an innocent poster to rouse a site bully, so if I check in there, it’s out of sight in the “other guitars” section, where I watch for any ES-related threads.

 

[cottonmike]

Hmm... I was going to post pictures of the upgrades I did to my Epiphone Les Paul SL, (Brass tuners and bridge, and a mini humbucker from Guitar fetish), over there on the LPF, but now-maybe not so much.

 

[Tuneup]

Should it be appraised first? Then sold?

 

[rockymtnguitar]

I mainly use the Backing Track of the Month thread in the Learning section. Folks there seem to be down to earth and tolerant of any skill level (or lack-of-skill level, in my case). It's a fun challenge when I can make time for it.

https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/august-2019-btotm.429845/

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Should it be appraised first? Then sold?

Good question.

There’s George Gruhn - and then there’s me.

How to tell us apart?

He smells like reptiles and I’m the one with the realistic view of the market !

In my opinion, appraisals are only for insurance valuations coverage etc. Every tool you could ever need is online as far as what people think guitars are worth and what they actually sell for.

Plus, I’ve been doing this for a long long long time.

I’ve got a couple guys sniffing around it locally which I find stunning because nothing of any value vintage-wise usually sells on craigslist here.

 

[radiocaster]

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.​

You also get flak on here if you post pointy guitars.

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

You also get flak on here if you post pointy guitars.

Yep.

 

[verb boten]

The guys I personally met from there were awesome! Some of the best people I've ever encountered.

I agree with this, "Lily's" Les Paul forum with the dark front page is the one i'm thinking of. Lots of good info and smart people over there but IIRC, not big on humor or jokesters, a problem for me. Can't post a link with this tablet i'm on.

 

[chet again]

I agree with this, "Lily's" Les Paul forum with the dark front page is the one i'm thinking of. Lots of good info and smart people over there but IIRC, not big on humor or jokesters, a problem for me. Can't post a link with this tablet i'm on.

They started a Fender forum which had a couple of guys who were pretty two-faced. They told Lily that I was keeping money form the forum jams I was holding. I think she believed them and may have banned me. I didn't want to argue about it so I let it go. One of them also posted lies about me on one of the forums. I think it may have been this one. I just read it way after it was posted and shook my head. I was disillusioned by the experience regarding forum jams anyway. I was going through changes in my professional life so I really quit playing guitar also. You may notice that there aren't that many forum jams held now.
The guys from the LPF and all the others even from the FenderForum were very cool. It was a pleasure hanging with them.

 

[Musekatcher]

if I check in there, it’s out of sight in the “other guitars” section, where I watch for any ES-related threads.

Yea, my Tribute is probably grounds for dismissal, lol. But I think I did up my cred with a 1966 ES-330 all original.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me, a vintage Les Paul
LPF friends own 50's and 60's them all
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from Tim Shaw
So Lord, won't you buy me a vintage Les Paul

 

[chet again]

I played a '59 Les Paul that a guy from NYC brought to one of the LPF jams. Pretty cool but I don't know that I'd spend $100,000+ on one.

 

[rze99]

LesPaulForum has moderated a bunch from the days where only those with guitars from the early days need join or speak. I should know: my earliest LP is a '74. There used to be snickers when I would mention it and now there is just slobber from guys who love it. Now it is still a it '50s and '60s centric but there was a move over time to give more recent LPs their due, including athe rise of a couple of '70s and '80s era experts who can answer most any question about that period.

Bob

Agree with all this.

I have no complaints of any substance. You always get some goading and trivial disputes.

Ps My earliest is a ‘74 too - a Les Paul Custom 20th anniversary in wine red

 

[verb boten]

They started a Fender forum which had a couple of guys who were pretty two-faced. They told Lily that I was keeping money form the forum jams I was holding. I think she believed them and may have banned me. I didn't want to argue about it so I let it go. One of them also posted lies about me on one of the forums. I think it may have been this one. I just read it way after it was posted and shook my head. I was disillusioned by the experience regarding forum jams anyway. I was going through changes in my professional life so I really quit playing guitar also. You may notice that there aren't that many forum jams held now.
The guys from the LPF and all the others even from the FenderForum were very cool. It was a pleasure hanging with them.

I never got closer than posting and buying a T shirt. I attended a few ww jams via another forum i joined; a small private forum that extended invitations to join via reccommendations from members and it was A1, very enjoyable with players coming from England, Sweden and Peru, to name a few.
A REAL shame how things worked out for you, very unfair.

 

[chet again]

You also get flak on here if you post pointy guitars.

I have an Epi Explorer that I love. I tried to put some Seymour Duncan pus in it but I don't like them. They may have been fakes that I bought from somewhere. I need to put some 'SD '59s in there.
Looking for an Epi Flying V. There was a used one in the GC in Omaha, Ne. that I should've bought when I first moved back to the Midwest.

 

[chet again]

I never got closer than posting and buying a T shirt. I attended a few ww jams via another forum i joined; a small private forum that extended invitations to join via reccommendations from members and it was A1, very enjoyable with players coming from England, Sweden and Peru, to name a few.
A REAL shame how things worked out for you, very unfair.

There was a guy from Greensboro, NC who had a t-shirt factory. He held a couple of jams there in his factory building. Great guy and he fed us a meal the night before. Even gave us a free t-shirt. He had about 50 Les Pauls! LOL

 

[radiocaster]

I have an Epi Explorer that I love. I tried to put some Seymour Duncan pus in it but I don't like them. They may have been fakes that I bought from somewhere. I need to put some 'SD '59s in there.
Looking for an Epi Flying V. There was a used one in the GC in Omaha, Ne. that I should've bought when I first moved back to the Midwest.

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

 

[Mad Kiwi]

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.