I don't know if anyone else noticed this but when you think about it ALMOST all old fender guitars share the same construction and wood-combo and get the distinctive part of their tone from their pups and electronics. Gibson however pretty much has the same PAF humbucker or P-90 (before Seth Lover's invention took over) in all their popular guitars (firebird uses minibuckers but wasn't all that popular) anyway the differences between a LP, SG, ES-335, ES-135. Are the wood and construction, average LP has a carved maple top and about 5 more lbs of mahogany than anything else, the SG is a simple piece of flat mahogany, a 335 is a collection of maple laminates and can sport either a mahogany neck or maple neck and carved top (right?) the 135 is the archtop Jazz guitar which I'm not familiar with in experience but don't think it's construction would too far of from a 335.
Basically, Gibson's sound is in the guitar, Fender's is underneath the pickguard.
Basically, Gibson's sound is in the guitar, Fender's is underneath the pickguard.
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