NFGD: 2013 Gibson Les Paul Traditional AAAAA Flame Top!

WavMixer said:
She is a beauty indeed! How does she play?
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Grant, she plays as good as she looks! The action is even better than the new Epiphone I've been raving about! Pickups have that perfect Classic Rock tone.
They remind me a lot of a Joe Perry sound even though they are modeled after Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates. They breakup in a kind of delicate crunch if that makes
any sense. They are not harsh at all and you can dial a little tone out and they clean up real nice.

I have a set of Bernie Marsden Beast Buckers and a set of Rewind PAF-1 at home. I had it in mind to use the Beast Buckers so this guitar would be closer to
the 2013 I let go, but after playing last night I think I'll just leave it alone. It has it's own character and I see no need to try and replicate my old girl. I just
need to form a new relationship with this beauty!
 
Looks like you stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam with your new LP. Kudos to the previous owner for implementing the tasty upgrades. A BFC (Big F'n Congrats) to you, sir... :cheers:.

BUT...
You generously provided us perverts many pics of that bodacious top. Now I would really like to see pics of the LP's back, all sides of the headstock including the nut, the neck joint, and of course the control cavity... :fingersx:
 
syscokid said:
Looks like you stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam with your new LP. Kudos to the previous owner for implementing the tasty upgrades. A BFC (Big F'n Congrats) to you, sir... :cheers:.

BUT...
You generously provided us perverts many pics of that bodacious top. Now I would really like to see pics of the LP's back, all sides of the headstock including the nut, the neck joint, and of course the control cavity... :fingersx:
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Okay, let me take some more...
 
syscokid said:
Sweet!

Is that a one-piece body?
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It looks like it very well could be. I just looked at it very closely under a really bright light and I didn't see a seam.

It's more like a two piece with a very well matched set. I do know it is not weight relieved at all. There are no
Swiss cheese holes or routed body cavities. It's a solid hunk of Mahogany!
 
Sp8ctre said:
It looks like it very well could be. I just looked at it very closely under a really bright light and I didn't see a seam.

It's more like a two piece with a very well matched set. I do know it is not weight relieved at all. There are no
Swiss cheese holes or routed body cavities. It's a solid hunk of Mahogany!
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It would be very unlikely to be a one-piece, but not impossible. They match them so well that usually the only way to be sure is to look at the edge of the body where the strap button is. If there is a seam it will be visible there. Doesn't matter one bit tone-wise how many pieces though.
 
gball said:
It would be very unlikely to be a one-piece, but not impossible. They match them so well that usually the only way to be sure is to look at the edge of the body where the strap button is. If there is a seam it will be visible there. Doesn't matter one bit tone-wise how many pieces though.
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I always look around the edge near the strap button and then up top near the neck. I don't see anything that looks like a seam,
but my eyes are getting bad and the edge of the body is dark. I'll have my wife look at if this weekend. I doubt it's a one piece...
 
syscokid said:
Like gball said, it shouldn't make a difference unless the glue-joining process wasn't done right. But it does give you bragging rights... :cheers:
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Oh, I'll brag about this one all day long and all anyone will have to do is play it to agree with me! Best guitar I have ever owned and you all
know I have owned a lot of guitars, many of them very high end. This Traditional beats my Gibson Historic R8 to death!
 
Sp8ctre said:
Oh, I'll brag about this one all day long and all anyone will have to do is play it to agree with me! Best guitar I have ever owned and you all
know I have owned a lot of guitars, many of them very high end. This Traditional beats my Gibson Historic R8 to death!
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I hear you man. About a year after I got my Traditional I decided to get an R8, so went looking. There was no shortage of examples to try out in the greater LA Metro area, but I couldn't find one that bested the Trad, so I lost the GAS and it really made me appreciate my guitar that much more.

TBH, I think both the Gibson and Fender Custom Shops are so obsessed with putting them together and making things look like they did 50/60 years ago that they forget people actually play the things. If someone out there really thinks hide glue is gonna "enhance" their tone then I got a bridge...
 
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