Les Paul Owners Club!
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Unburst! Yeah I like this idea! In any case, it's a mighty fine looking (and, no doubt, sounding) Les Paul you have here.
refin
Friend of Leo's
CV Jee Beez
Tele-Afflicted
I spend mucho time in Las Vegas. More than expected. So, seeing that I brought my R4 Goldtop along, I found time to drop it off at a well known Luthier there. Alan of AMD Guitar Works. I was having tuning issues. He played it and could Not get it out of tune. Guess it is me. Well I did have him set it up for 11's. I had just replaced the EB 10's I had on it. Those just felt too flimsy for me. I had brought in some D'addario 11's to try out. He changed the strings, and did some work on the Nut. Totally different tone now!(to me) And much stiffer tension I can work with! I noticed the "better" tone instantly, plugged into my '65 PRRI 12" Celestion G12-65. Love that LP now!!
SShrews824
TDPRI Member
I bought this 2012 LP Traditional a few years ago. It was used when I got it, but was in fantastic condition. Plays very well too. It's one of the "alternate" neck Les Pauls. Granted, it's not a Custom Shop or Historic model, but it scratches my Les Paul itch.
Bruxist
Poster Extraordinaire
If one is halfway between Lemon Burst and Iced Tea Burst, is that an Arnold Palmer Burst?
Kungpow!
Tele-Meister
2012 Custom shop TV white
My new-to-me 2007 1957 Les Paul Custom Reissue.
It’s very gently used, and not heavy!
I’ll weigh it at work tomorrow.
Great guitar!
It’s very gently used, and not heavy!
I’ll weigh it at work tomorrow.
Great guitar!
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SteveGangi
Tele-Holic
I also have a 78 cherry red Custom. I have the black "speed" knobs, and I replaced the pickups (repair work). Kept the old pickups around though.
Cool. Mine is wine red but looks lighter in that photo. It came with top hat knobs, which out of sheer boredom, I swapped out in my teens. Also in my teens, I leant it to a friend who's older brother, without telling me, swapped out the bridge pickup for an uncovered zebra something--MightyMite maybe--that looked really cool. He was an aspiring guitar tech who we all idolized so I thought it was an honor. Decades later, (again out of sheer boredom) I swapped out both pickups for Skatterbranes and then for Wolfetones. All these years later, the original neck pickup is somewhere waiting to be discovered, but the original bridge pickup is long gone, which kills me because they were likely T-Tops or Shaws. Whenever I go back to my childhood home, I excuse myself and do a quick search for old gear--like my old Big Muff from the same time period. It's there somewhere.
SteveGangi
Tele-Holic
This is a bad shot of mine, I guess wine red is a better description. If the original pickups hadn't gone intermittent I would have left them in. But it was a good clean job because I did it myself.
Electric Warrior
Tele-Holic
Mark617
Tele-Holic
Dik Ellis
Tele-Afflicted
Only got one, but she's a keeper. Bought her new in 1979. She's friends with a 1980 Mesa MKIIB. The relationship is still going strong.
Sax-son
Friend of Leo's
I have played lot of LPs over the years, but this is my favorite. A 60's model with Burstbuckers. Sonic heaven right out of the case with no tweaking
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Kungpow!
Tele-Meister
2013 sunrise teaburst R8 in some AM sun
Michael A.
Tele-Afflicted
My latest cheapo LP. AXL Badwater 1216. I don't think this is the version produced by the AXL Custom Shop in CA, just the standard import model.
I had looked for one of these for a while and found it on Facebook Marketplace. It has been refinished and I think the pickups aren't original, but they sound very nice. Will investigate when the strings need replacing. The body is ash and only slightly less hefty than my mahogany Hardluck Kings "Bossman".
I had looked for one of these for a while and found it on Facebook Marketplace. It has been refinished and I think the pickups aren't original, but they sound very nice. Will investigate when the strings need replacing. The body is ash and only slightly less hefty than my mahogany Hardluck Kings "Bossman".
