A thought....

[Twitch]

I despise the feel of Les Paul necks. The shape feels wrong, the scale feels wrong, and the finish feels wrong. But today I started thinking about ways around this because some of the tones I desire, (Peter Green clean/Duane Allman) require a Les Paul style guitar. So I was wondering if it would be possible to put on a bolt on strat neck onto a les paul. Would this work?

 

[Mac-P]

Re: A thought....

Why not just sand off the finish on the back of the neck and shape the back more like a Strat neck. You could even get a fret job if you wanted and curve the raduis more (make the flat Gibson style radius more curved).

Short of that there are PLENTY of solid mahogany humbucker (or soapbar) guitars that have a bolt on neck. Worse comes to worse get the parts from Warmouth and build your own guitar.

 

[Twitch]

Re: A thought....

Well, walk with me and I'll explain the thought process that lead me to this strange idea...

I'm upgrading the pups in my MIM strat right now and kept reading how you can't have the best of both worlds in a strat, single coil chime and creamy HB overdrive, not even with an HSS. So I thought why not make my strat into a vintage strat style guitar with surfers or texas hots, and get a seperate guitar for getting tones like Peter Green and Duane Allman.

This other guitar is just an abberation right now, but I'm considering this. Just to peak my interest some more, what would I be able to get for around 400 (used of course). A suitable HH Godin, Hamer, Warmoth?