Gibson Les Paul question

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Does anyone know anyone who owns this guitar? -->http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Gibson-Les-Paul-Vintage-Mahogany-Electric-Guitar?sku=517536

I am thinking about buying this in about 3 months. The problem is no one in my area carries this guitar for me to test. So I have to go on user opinions and reviews and order it from internet. It seems to get positive reviews everywhere I go. I have never owned a true Gibson. I have always had Les Paul clones and Epi's..nothing wrong with those, but this could be my very first real Gibson Les Paul. It's about time for me to get one but The Les Paul Standard is way out of my price range, even used, and this one seems to be a good compromise between Epi and the Gibson Les Paul Standard.
 
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I think there used to be one at our GC, but I don't remember seeing it lately.
 
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I've looked at and played a couple of them at GC and didn't think that highly of the finish though they played ok. IMHO, I would hold out a bit longer and look at/play a used Standard or the standard finished Studios. What is your total budget?
 
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i own one of those!!

great guitar all around. it's got a really fat chunky neck, solid construction, and plays and sounds fantastic. the body is mahogany all around, no maple cap like most les pauls, so it sounds a bit darker. but the burstbuckers that come in it stock sound fantastic in this guitar... the only other pickups i've tried in it are the JB/jazz, and i actually prefer the stock pickups because the JB is just too dark sounding in this guitar. what i love most is that it's really easy to get it set up and playing good. i've got the action on mine set at the perfect level for me, no fret buzz, no tuning problems, ect.

if there's anything else or anything specific you want to know just hit me up!
 
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Quite frankly, I find Les Pauls to be overpriced and overrated. Don't get me wrong, they're great guitars, but they aren't as amazing as people make them out to be. For $1,000, you could do much better.

May I ask though, what kind of music do you play? That makes all the difference.
 
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Please, let's not turn this into another Gibson bashing thread...

That said, I don't own one, but have played a couple. Both rang fairly well, but missed a bit of top end bite and were darker sounding due to not having a maple cap. My biggest gripe is the faded finish on the faded line of Gibson guitars. They feel raw and unfinished, which is a feel that works on a tight grained wood like maple, but was not a feel that I could get used to on mahogany.
 
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Man I played a Seymourized Schecter! Don't remember the model! I tell you as a die hard LP fan! If your game ranges anywhere from Funk/R&B to Classic Rock then the Schecter eats the LP lunch for half of the number of pennies in the piggy bank!

Like I said, I dont remember the model but it was a double cutaway with a strat- like body. But it was thicker! Sorta like an ESP Horizon in thickness to the body with two Seymourized humbuckers and pearloid binding all around!
 
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MikeS said:
Please, let's not turn this into another Gibson bashing thread...
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Not Gibson bashing. They're all great guitars. I just feel that the LPs get more hype than they really should. I like 335s and the Epiphone Elitist lines much more. Though, I do like the Gibson Custom Les Paul DCs with the two p90s.
 
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I have played one and they sound pretty good. If you can swap out the pickups to something more your taste, you'd be very pleased with the guitar.

And, no, Gibson guitars are not overrated or overpriced.
 
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muttonchopsrule said:
i own one of those!!

great guitar all around. it's got a really fat chunky neck, solid construction, and plays and sounds fantastic. the body is mahogany all around, no maple cap like most les pauls, so it sounds a bit darker. but the burstbuckers that come in it stock sound fantastic in this guitar... the only other pickups i've tried in it are the JB/jazz, and i actually prefer the stock pickups because the JB is just too dark sounding in this guitar. what i love most is that it's really easy to get it set up and playing good. i've got the action on mine set at the perfect level for me, no fret buzz, no tuning problems, ect.

if there's anything else or anything specific you want to know just hit me up!
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+1, Last time I was in GC I played a few and they're very nice and worth the money.
 
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Instead of staying on track to buy a Classic or Standard model when I was looking for my Pauly, I opted for the Studio. I talked to some guys here at the forum about the differences, and for me spending another $500-$600 for trim-binding around the body and neck just didn't add up at the time. There's no difference between a Studio and a Standard except for trim. I bought my Studio off of ebay for a little over six bills ( w/Gibby HSC ), slapped a pair of Seymour Duncan pups in it, gave it a good set-up, and now it's my number one humbucker axe.
It's an excellent value, IMHO. For the price of a new Faded Les Paul you could have a Studio set up with great pups, ( I wasn't impressed with the stock Gibson pups that came with mine ) even if you were to take the guitar to a tech to have the work done, and still have enough money left over for pizza. Just something to think about.

....Bob
 
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p.s.

Something else to think about:
It was only a couple of years ago that M-F had the Faded LP's selling during their end-of-year-sales for $599 - $699, which makes me wonder why Gibson made a big jump in price for this axe all of a sudden. :scratchch
 
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It's great that Gibson is making guitars that you dont have to put a mortgage on your house to buy. Put different pups in there and it will probably be just as good to.
 
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They've always had authentic USA-made Gibsons pretty cheap. Still do with the flat-top Special and others.
 
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Played one. Liked it. Good feel to the neck. Kinda dug the finish.

However...My tastes lean towards the maple cap. A little more bite and briteness. Just my opinion (and likely most LP owners!). Also-for the price, I'd go Epi Elitist over this. That guitar for 6/700, ok. At 1k - I'm going for the epiphone on appearances if nothing else!
 
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All the "fadded" series guitars sound great. So far, I've not found one that doesn't usually beat out it's higher priced cousin in tone.

That said, it takes blind folding a snob to get them to admit it.


The maple cap helps on the regular gibbies, but it'll still sound VERY MUCH like a les paul.
 
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Mephis said:
All the "fadded" series guitars sound great. So far, I've not found one that doesn't usually beat out it's higher priced cousin in tone.
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I've heard great things tone wise, but I've heard that construction-wise they're very poor. Large pattern of neck cracking in the reviews I've read. I was going to get a Faded DC, but reading the reviews I was turned off of it.
 
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