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I am really pleased to have been lucky enough to be able to buy a Custom Shop Les Paul in 2016, it's truly lovely looking, plays exceptionally well and sounds great. But I grab my CS Strat almost every time over it. The Strat is just so comfortable and I love the quieter more refined sound of the single coils. I don't even notice that I'm playing the Strat and really, really love it.
For the first time in a while I got a twinge to shift the LP and get another CS Strat in it's place.
I owned a 2007 R9 and sold that after a year and when I managed to be in a position to buy another CS Historic I told myself that I would never sell again.
Am I mad? Perhaps I need to go listen to Zep's How The West Was Won a few times to stir up the LP love again.
The AV52 Tele doesn't get a lot of air time either lately, it's all Strat!
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I do like messing around with that big LP sound at home, but I don't actually use it live much. I tend to prefer single coils. or a semi-hollow.
If you don't have a semi-hollow, would it be worth trying something like a 335?
Then I would have more Strats than @Bridgehouse
Who me?
I daren't pull it anymore it might fall off.
I have five .. you can never have enough Strats .. :-)
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
If there is any doubt, keep it and play it until you either
a) know you don't like it
or
b) like it
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Not sure there is any need for 2 really nice ones though. You would probably still end up playing one more than the other.
I have more guitars than I really need, so I do find that I sometimes go a month or two without playing one of them. I don't think that's a massive problem though. If I go 3 or 4 months without playing a guitar, then it's normally a sign I need to sell it.
I guess
I don't play my Les Paul much, but would never sell it - they're a nice thing to have, and what they do not many other guitars do and sometimes it's nice to do that.
But I would echo - Tele, really nice match for the strat, and rocks like no other
urrgghh no way. Firebird? firewood more like. Filthy.
You're not mad by any stretch - just a Strat lover. Get another Strat if that's what you want, Ive got more than one Tele.
Maybe try a Les Paul with P90s.
I think you've nailed it. You're right I feel I can play anything on a Strat and love how hard I can physically play it, the LP with it's shorter scale need's gentler touch and doesn't lend itself so much to some styles.