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Saw these a while back when they were first introduced and thought the color was pretty unusual and very cool. Also always thought the Classic was the best bang-for-the-buck in the Les Paul lineup and kind of always wanted one. So, placed the order and it shipped this morning.

Gibson | Les Paul Classic

The Gibson Les Paul™ Classic combines the early 60s style Les Paul model with some functional and time-tested modifications. As expected, the Les Paul Classic is crafted with a mahogany back and maple top coupled with a SlimTaper™ mahogany neck and bound rosewood fingerboard. BurstBucker™ 61R &...
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Will post an update once I have it in my hands.
 
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syscokid said:
Since you posted this thread 15 minutes ago, all I can ask is: IS IT HERE YET?
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Haha, not yet. Ordered it last night and got the shipping notification this morning. Have never ordered anything direct from Gibson before so no idea how long it will take. But since this is a color that's only available through them direct I had no choice.

Obviously, I don't need any more Les Pauls, just really liked the unusual color and all my other guitars are solid/no weight relief so should be an interesting change between that and the coil taps and phase switching.
 
gball said:
Haha, not yet. Ordered it last night and got the shipping notification this morning. Have never ordered anything direct from Gibson before so no idea how long it will take. But since this is a color that's only available through them direct I had no choice.

Obviously, I don't need any more Les Pauls, just really liked the unusual color and all my other guitars are solid/no weight relief so should be an interesting change between that and the coil taps and phase switching.
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This one‘s weight relieved?

You may be pleasantly surprised. The Les Paul Studio I used to have was pretty significantly weight relieved and it did add a “thing” to the sound. It didn’t lack for sustain, either.
 
smitty_p said:
This one‘s weight relieved?

You may be pleasantly surprised. The Les Paul Studio I used to have was pretty significantly weight relieved and it did add a “thing” to the sound. It didn’t lack for sustain, either.
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Says 9-hole weight relief. Should be different enough from my other guitars to justify the cost, between the weight relief, '61 pickups and the switching options.
 
jtcnj said:
Congrats @gball, that looks like a worthy LP addition.
The uninitiated do not understand why some of us have more than 1 of "the same" guitar.


Meanwhile:
When she sees another guitar box has been delivered to our front door.
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I just bought something too.
Much more pedestrian.
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I have only "one" guitar, haha: I got nothing but Les Pauls. My wife is so used to this sickness after 24 years of marriage it doesn't really move the needle with her any more so that's good at least.
 
gball said:
Obviously, I don't need any more Les Pauls, just really liked the unusual color and all my other guitars are solid/no weight relief so should be an interesting change between that and the coil taps and phase switching.
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I’d be willing to bet a cup of coffee and two chocolate donuts with sprinkles that Gibson’s marketing folks have used the wrong terminology when they say these are “coil tapped”. Most likely they are actually “coil split”.

If the idea is that you can switch operation between a full humbucker and a single coil, that is a coil split. Coil tapping is when you “tap” a coil so that you use only part of the coil. It is hardly, if ever, done with humbuckers; though, you may occasionally find it with true single coil pickups.

Anyhoo… have you ever used coil split humbuckers? I did that to the Les Paul Studio I used to have.
 
smitty_p said:
I’d be willing to bet a cup of coffee and two chocolate donuts with sprinkles that Gibson’s marketing folks have used the wrong terminology when they say these are “coil tapped”. Most likely they are actually “coil split”.

If the idea is that you can switch operation between a full humbucker and a single coil, that is a coil split. Coil tapping is when you “tap” a coil so that you use only part of the coil. It is hardly, if ever, done with humbuckers; though, you may occasionally find it with true single coil pickups.

Anyhoo… have you ever used coil split humbuckers? I did that to the Les Paul Studio I used to have.
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Yeah, I had a PRS that had it. TBH I thought it was mostly useless but a cool party trick. I suspect I will very rarely use it on this guitar but you never know. I'm much more interested in the phase function.
 
gball said:
Yeah, I had a PRS that had it. TBH I thought it was mostly useless but a cool party trick. I suspect I will very rarely use it on this guitar but you never know. I'm much more interested in the phase function.
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Gotcha.

When I installed the coil split on my Studio, I mainly used it when playing clean. I found that it would lend an airy quality to strumming passages, especially if using both pickups split. For distorted or heavily overdriven passages, I didn’t care for it as much.
 
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