Saying a LP is too heavy is like saying a Ferrari is too fast ...

[JOLLY]

I've never had a problem with them.

[Phantasmagoria]

One of the more annoying things about them is when I'm tapping & my right forearm keeps knocking the selector switch to the neck position from the bridge as I move down the fretboard...always happens & it's pretty difficult/awkward trying to avoid. Upper fret access is'nt the greatest either..

Some people manage to find workaround's but I would'nt say it's a shredder's guitar...

[Mincer]

Ribs you say???

I'll show you a cool trick lol

Doesn't do it for me.

[JMP/HBE]

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[Securb]

I would'nt say it's a shredder's guitar...

Every guitar is a shredder's guitar it just depends on who is playing it.

[Phantasmagoria]

Sorry, great player's al of them, but that does'nt change the fact they're speeding in VW Beetle's....not Ferrari's

[Mincer]

Sorry, great player's al of them, but that does'nt change the fact they're speeding in VW Beetle's....not Ferrari's

I'd say more like a Camry. Good at a lot of things, but not really a high-performance vehicle. Sure, great players can make them work, and they have lots of different types of great players, too.

[GuitarDoc]

Gibson lets you take your guitar home. So there is that.

I'm not even sure what that means.

[JMP/HBE]

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Never heard so many people whine about the greatest guitar ever made.
Would you like some cheese with that wine ?

[Top-L]

Sorry, great player's al of them, but that does'nt change the fact they're speeding in VW Beetle's....not Ferrari's

With good fretwork any neck can be super fast if you're not bothered by the heel. At that point it comes down to how it sounds, how it looks.

[playas]

Both Les Pauls and Ferraris are too heavy ...and too slow.

[Phantasmagoria]

With good fretwork any neck can be super fast if you're not bothered by the heel. At that point it comes down to how it sounds, how it looks.

Well, why would'nt you bothered by the heel? And that's just one of many other shortcomings that need to be overcome to play fast, tap etc. They're great guitar's for rock & blues (and I guess jazz..though it's not my thing) and sure you can play metal and shred on them (as you can on a 335) but there are way better guitars more specifically geared towards that imo..

[beaubrummels]

Les Pauls are certainly more favored for the inimitable sound they make, than their ergonomics. But some players adapt and make it work.

[Seashore]

I have to say that thinner, "shreddier" guitars are less comfortable to me overall. I will take good fretwork and setup on a Gibson over a superstrat any day. I find some lead playing marginally easier on my longer-scale neck through guitars with smoothed-out heels, but practically speaking it's never been a problem. It doesn't outweigh the difference in overall utility for the vast majority of what I play. Horses for courses; I am not a "shredder" and I don't do anything massively technical.

Gibson LP and Explorer ergonomics are just right for me, also. 24.75" scale, tune-o-matic, 4-ish degree neck angle, I'm at home. I have a Schecter Explorer with a 25.5" scale and a slightly flatter neck angle and that slight difference makes for a bunch of shoulder pain, and the thin neck doesn't feel right in my hand. I can get used to it but it's never truly just right.

[Securb]

Sorry, great player's al of them, but that does'nt change the fact they're speeding in VW Beetle's....not Ferrari's

That makes no sense.