<Norm McDonald Voice>Gibson!</Voice>

[GuitarDoc]

I am attracted to $1k-$2k Gibsons on clearance. (Okay, maybe low twos, given the inflation.) I am not the customer for their $3-$5k+ offerings, so I dont feel like I am seeing better guitars for 1/4 the price of the Gibsons I am seriously looking at.

I totally get it.

I dont think they even look good, unless the guitar is ten feet awat.

Good point, I never even thought about that before. But now that you mentioned it, I couldn't agree more. On most of my builds with neck binding, I cut off the fret tangs so the fret crowns extend to the edge of the fretboard. Now I just realized that this was as much an esthetic thing as it was for playability.

 

[GuitarDoc]

I am attracted to $1k-$2k Gibsons on clearance. (Okay, maybe low twos, given the inflation.) I am not the customer for their $3-$5k+ offerings, so I dont feel like I am seeing better guitars for 1/4 the price of the Gibsons I am seriously looking at.

But there are still really great guitars for half that price...at least half of the $2000 (you can't get much better than $1000). I think I mentioned that most of the Gibsons I own, I also bought on sale or clearance. Only a few were full price. One of my favorites is a Zebrawood LP. Only a few hundred were made, but I got it on sale for right around $2000 if I remember correctly (it was 10-15 years ago).

 

[PFDarkside]

But there are still really great guitars for half that price...at least half of the $2000 (you can't get much better than $1000). I think I mentioned that most of the Gibsons I own, I also bought on sale or clearance. Only a few were full price. One of my favorites is a Zebrawood LP. Only a few hundred were made, but I got it on sale for right around $2000 if I remember correctly (it was 10-15 years ago).

That was a really cool series. They had a bunch of exotic tops right?

Doc, if you wanted great guitar with the Les Paul formula right now, what would you choose?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

The binding nibs look like something that was left to cut costs, then touted as an extravagant feature. Given a choice, I’ll skip the binding altogether. The less plastic on the neck the better.

 

[GuitarDoc]

That was a really cool series. They had a bunch of exotic tops right?

Doc, if you wanted great guitar with the Les Paul formula right now, what would you choose?

I assume you mean the LP body shape and the 2 bucker/4 control layout. That's a good question, but since I already have a good amount of LPs and since I make custom guitars which I feel are much better instruments in every way, I really haven't had the slightest desire to even see what's available in LP form.