SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
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LesStrat
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
Hey! Where did you get a picture of my guitar:?::scratchchDefine HOW loose.
If we're talking "ballpark looks will do" loose then I'd like to add my latest acquisition, the Parker Fly Mojo Single Cut:
Reasons she SHOULD be considered: Like I said, ballpark LP looks and woods including a KILLER quilted top. Also, she does SOUND the part. Not 100% LP obviously but more like a LP than a Strat anyway.
Reasons NOT to include her: Well, she IS a Parker which means the Mahogany body is only half as thick as a typical LP plus the scale length is 25.5", not 24.75".
Now, I might need a clarification, if she does NOT qualify can I post another one in her place? I promise that one is much closer to typical LP specs (but this is the one I wanna show off this time :9.
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KeeperOS
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Finally, I was wondering when you'd chime in.
I knew we had the same guitars although you got her long before I did mine which was a heavily discounted NOS floor piece (for which I was the person mainly responsible, running her through her paces all that time :9.
She was at the window of a store at the same Mall I used to work in so a lot of times I'd go after work to play her. But with an original retail price of 3,500 euro I couldn't justify the price.
Last Christmas she was discounted to a ridiculous 50% of an already heavily discounted price for being an old floor piece at which point I could no longer NOT justify paying for her. Funny thing is EVERYONE at the store recognized me and said pretty much the same thing: "Ah, finally YOU got her". :9:
She has since had the bridge pickup swapped to a Tom Anderson HN3+ which cured her of her thin lows while still retaining all that I liked about her
EDIT: just noticed, one way to tell them apart visually is that yours has a Flamed Maple top, mine has a Quilted one
Finally, I was wondering when you'd chime in.
I knew we had the same guitars although you got her long before I did mine which was a heavily discounted NOS floor piece (for which I was the person mainly responsible, running her through her paces all that time :9
.She was at the window of a store at the same Mall I used to work in so a lot of times I'd go after work to play her. But with an original retail price of 3,500 euro I couldn't justify the price.
Last Christmas she was discounted to a ridiculous 50% of an already heavily discounted price for being an old floor piece at which point I could no longer NOT justify paying for her. Funny thing is EVERYONE at the store recognized me and said pretty much the same thing: "Ah, finally YOU got her". :9:
She has since had the bridge pickup swapped to a Tom Anderson HN3+ which cured her of her thin lows while still retaining all that I liked about her
EDIT: just noticed, one way to tell them apart visually is that yours has a Flamed Maple top, mine has a Quilted one
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Chris of Arabia
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
^^ This is the LP Copies round - tell me I'm wrong but that looks suspiciously like the genuine article. My apologies if not.
^^ This is the LP Copies round - tell me I'm wrong but that looks suspiciously like the genuine article. My apologies if not.
crguti
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
My #1 warrior machine.
LP inspired Dark Violin Sunburst.
Mahogany body with bound quilted maple top. Set-in mahogany neck with bound rosewood fingerboard. 11-54 gauge. 2 vol / 1 tone.
Seymour Duncan LW-Must set pickups.
The official picture is here, but
my guitar in the front room window of my apartment at 21:34 hrs on a sunny day in Scandinavian lands looks like this
My #1 warrior machine.
LP inspired Dark Violin Sunburst.
Mahogany body with bound quilted maple top. Set-in mahogany neck with bound rosewood fingerboard. 11-54 gauge. 2 vol / 1 tone.
Seymour Duncan LW-Must set pickups.
The official picture is here, but
my guitar in the front room window of my apartment at 21:34 hrs on a sunny day in Scandinavian lands looks like this
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blues
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
Thanks for the nod towards my guitar. Since you have shown the front here is the back
Thanks for the nod towards my guitar. Since you have shown the front here is the back
LesStrat
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
Ermah gehrd! Weh herv eh werner! (Unless crusty enters his build):
Ermah gehrd! Weh herv eh werner! (Unless crusty enters his build):
Snake Aces
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
There's some nice LP's in this thread! Here's my Warmoth chambered Black Korina LP with a Wilkinson two-point trem, duncan Jazz neck, STK-S4 RW/RP middle and Jazz trembucker all with coil splits. The neck is also Warmoth, 24.75" conversion, compound radius, abalone markers, gold frets, wenge 59 roundback profile with a ziricote fretboard. Make no mistake about it, she gets fingered daily:
There's some nice LP's in this thread! Here's my Warmoth chambered Black Korina LP with a Wilkinson two-point trem, duncan Jazz neck, STK-S4 RW/RP middle and Jazz trembucker all with coil splits. The neck is also Warmoth, 24.75" conversion, compound radius, abalone markers, gold frets, wenge 59 roundback profile with a ziricote fretboard. Make no mistake about it, she gets fingered daily:
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Chris of Arabia
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
Sure of what "on the Warmoth"? Does that mean they are eligible for this category or not?
Sure of what "on the Warmoth"? Does that mean they are eligible for this category or not?
crusty philtrum
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
I have no idea where my guitar would belong, although i'm pretty sure it's not in this category. It's more of a build than screwed-together Strats and Teles, but less of a build than something where the builder built the neck and fretboard. However, it's already a winner by being the only build in The Vault.
I have no idea where my guitar would belong, although i'm pretty sure it's not in this category. It's more of a build than screwed-together Strats and Teles, but less of a build than something where the builder built the neck and fretboard. However, it's already a winner by being the only build in The Vault.
crusty philtrum
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
It is basically a LP-style guitar, yes. However, I don't consider it to be a copy. I have no idea what it is, it's just it's own thing. It can't compete with people who build their own necks, and it's got more going for it than people gluing the necks into kit guitars or buying pre-finished Fender-style bodies. As such, i'm not really sure it will belong in any category unless there's a category for home-built bodies. Overall, i don't really feel competitive about it, it is what it is ... my guitar.
It is basically a LP-style guitar, yes. However, I don't consider it to be a copy. I have no idea what it is, it's just it's own thing. It can't compete with people who build their own necks, and it's got more going for it than people gluing the necks into kit guitars or buying pre-finished Fender-style bodies. As such, i'm not really sure it will belong in any category unless there's a category for home-built bodies. Overall, i don't really feel competitive about it, it is what it is ... my guitar.
Laughing Kookaburra
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
I dig that Parker LesStrat!
I dig that Parker LesStrat!
Snake Aces
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Re: SDUG Ultimate Axe - Category 3; Les Paul Copies
Is my Warmoth not Les Paul enough? Should I pull it and enter it in the build category?
Is my Warmoth not Les Paul enough? Should I pull it and enter it in the build category?
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