2013 Gibson Les Paul Traditional
Preface: Owned an '89 Custom Black Beauty (waited 6 months for them to make it - special order lefty) for years; was my #1 go to.
Sold that one in mid 2Ks.
So 2010's come around and I'm thinking, "I need a Les Paul".
Got a new 2013 LP Traditional for (IIRC) ~$1600 in 2014. Honey Sunburst.
Played it for a few months. In fact, the guitar is all over this full song recreation of mine (Don't Look Back - Boston):
But after few months; after the "new car smell" wore off, I realized that it just wasn't all that.
It played just fine (except the poor upper-fret access, as we know with LPs) - (I did do a setup) not bad, but not "wow! this LP kills!".
The plastic creme pickguard and binding (especially the neck) started looking cheap to me.
And the finish started looking ugly to me. The HSB (honey sunburst) finish looked cool with the slight flame top, but it seemed
there was gobs of clearcoat on top of that, and looking at it up close (as you do when playing) it just looked, well, "cheap". Like an Agile LP finish (I've had those).
Turns out I sold it not long after for $200 profit. Never gelled with the guitar.
Alright so it wasn't necessarily a turd, but considering what I paid for it, it totally failed to blow me away or exude any mojo. And that is turd-worthy.
Preface: Owned an '89 Custom Black Beauty (waited 6 months for them to make it - special order lefty) for years; was my #1 go to.
Sold that one in mid 2Ks.
So 2010's come around and I'm thinking, "I need a Les Paul".
Got a new 2013 LP Traditional for (IIRC) ~$1600 in 2014. Honey Sunburst.
Played it for a few months. In fact, the guitar is all over this full song recreation of mine (Don't Look Back - Boston):
But after few months; after the "new car smell" wore off, I realized that it just wasn't all that.
It played just fine (except the poor upper-fret access, as we know with LPs) - (I did do a setup) not bad, but not "wow! this LP kills!".
The plastic creme pickguard and binding (especially the neck) started looking cheap to me.
And the finish started looking ugly to me. The HSB (honey sunburst) finish looked cool with the slight flame top, but it seemed
there was gobs of clearcoat on top of that, and looking at it up close (as you do when playing) it just looked, well, "cheap". Like an Agile LP finish (I've had those).
Turns out I sold it not long after for $200 profit. Never gelled with the guitar.
Alright so it wasn't necessarily a turd, but considering what I paid for it, it totally failed to blow me away or exude any mojo. And that is turd-worthy.
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