My Les Pauls

Wish I have one but the day will come.
I had an Epiphone one years ago but I loved the Les Paul Traditionals when they came out. I was close to pull the trigger but I didn´t because they did not had the Honey Burst and the other ones weren´t my choice.
But you know what they say, there is one out there and it will find a way to you.
I am patiently waiting for the right time and day.
In the meantime I am still enjoying my white V.

Life is good,
Robin
 
fitz said:
Me too, but I also think pickguards are a requirement on a LP (at least for me).
Had to add a poker chip on my Tribute - it came without one when I got it off the used rack at the local GC.
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I'm a pickguard-on guy. I've bought a couple flat tops (not LPs) that came without, and added them.

Hamer Specials look kinda nekkid without one, so I added a singlecut guard (with a slight Gibson-to-Hamer mod) to mine, so now it coordinates better with my Gibbies:

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Same type deal with the early SGJ models that came out in 2013. They were intentionally "stripped down," with no pickguard, and no headstock pineapple. I added both, as well as put Bobbin Topper vinyl clings on top of the weird flat black plastic pickup covers (not fond of the EMG look), to render them as faux-open coils:

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Brian Krashpad said:
I'm a pickguard-on guy. I've bought a couple flat tops (not LPs) that came without, and added them.

Hamer Specials look kinda nekkid without one, so I added a singlecut guard (with a slight Gibson-to-Hamer mod) to mine, so now it coordinates better with my Gibbies:

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Same type deal with the early SGJ models that came out in 2013. They were intentionally "stripped down," with no pickguard, and no headstock pineapple. I added both, as well as put Bobbin Topper vinyl clings on top of the weird flat black plastic pickup covers (not fond of the EMG look), to render them as faux-open coils:
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I love the DCs with P90s! I wonder why Gibson put that switch in such a weird place, I think I would hit it all the time.
 
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DirtySteve said:
Big fat frets with no nibs, nice! What pickups?
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Yeah I had to have it refretted years ago. The pickups are really really old Seymour Duncan’s. When I had work done on it, the guy working on it called me very excited talking about how old the pickups were and were probably hand wound by Seymour they were so old. Whatever they are- they sound phenomenal.

I had to put a new wiring harness in it too. The hardware had been changed when I got it. When ai picked it up, I knew it was special. And it is. Just really a wonderfully playing and sounding guitar.
 
Well, I had planned to sell it, but I made the mistake of playing my Standard today for the first time in weeks. I was really annoyed at the thin neck, that's why I bought the Traditional to replace it, but after playing it today I think it's not as bad as I thought it was and it was a nice change. As much as I was looking forward to using the money for something else, I have a feeling it's not going anywhere after all...so I added it back to the herd. I just think I'll regret it if I sell it. New plan is it's going to get set up with some fatter strings and low tuning, D standard at least. I thought my Tribute was going to be my down tuned guitar, but I also need and alternate tuned guitar so I'll use the Tribute for that. It's the unburst on the right.

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I don’t own a Les Paul—never have…

I love, love, love them in other people’s hands…Billy Gibbons is in my top five favorite guitarists; I love Peter Green and Gary Moore and all the early singles by Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry and Freddie King (a lot of which were cut with P-90 loaded gold tops)…

I love the looks; they’re just gorgeous, classy and cool.

But…I have never found one that feels right to me.

I originally thought it was the Gibson scale (24.75”)…but I love Les Paul Juniors and Specials and Flying V’s and Explorers and Firebirds and the hollow- and semi-hollow Gibsons and even the occasional SG(!), so it has to be something else, and I don’t know what it is.

I’m gonna keep trying until I find one I love…until then, I’ll just keep on playing everything else in my guitarsenal and leave the Les Pauls to other players.
 
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