Is there a thread about this? There should be a thread about this... WARNING: Les Paul Sacrilege

Alnico

^So i can avoid them easier?

Rocker

I like it.  The gold knobs look perfect to my old eyes.  A bit of a rarity from Gibson.  It looks well made!

usedtobe

Isn't there a prs with a slightly similar paint job?

Dave_Mc

ICBM said:

I can't decide if I like it, but I definitely don't hate it.

Agreed. I can't imagine buying it myself, but if someone else owned one I could imagine saying, "That's pretty cool" and genuinely meaning it.

monofin

I quite like it. Is it Gibson made or customised?

Hertz32

monofin said:

I quite like it. Is it Gibson made or customised?

monofin said:

I quite like it. Is it Gibson made or customised?

Gibson Custom Shop from the GAK website - Circa about £4.5K I believe

Sporky

I loke that. Not in a want-to-own it way, but it is jolly, and the world has enough dullburst and brown guitars.

crunchman

usedtobe said:

Isn't there a prs with a slightly similar paint job?

The Al Di Meola signature:



It was introduced in 2008.  No longer listed on the PRS website.  Not sure when it was discontinued.  I think @hubobulous might have had one at a gearfest thing.

Maybe PRS should sue Gibson

richardhomer

What's interesting is that PRS do this kind of thing routinely - without criticism - but Gibson can't.

This clearly shows how different their markets are. Paul Smith acknowledges the lack of historic recordings featuring PRS guitars limits their popularity - but as soon as Gibson make a Les Paul that doesn't look like Jimmy Page's, that's a problem too....

Sporky

I don't like that PRS as much.

Also the Gibbo would be better with everything chrome.

normula1

I quite like that, but not enough to break the self i.posed used guitars only rule

Evilmags

crunchman said:

usedtobe said:

Isn't there a prs with a slightly similar paint job?

The Al Di Meola signature:



It was introduced in 2008.  No longer listed on the PRS website.  Not sure when it was discontinued.  I think @hubobulous might have had one at a gearfest thing.

Maybe PRS should sue Gibson

Because Di Meola's has been touring with Gibsons.

fretmeister

Love it.

zepp76

crunchman said:

I kindof like it but I'm not sure that I'd want to actually own it and play it out though.  Doesn't need a scratchplate.  LP with a scratchplate is wrong.

FIFY

usedtobe

crunchman said:

usedtobe said:

Isn't there a prs with a slightly similar paint job?

The Al Di Meola signature:



It was introduced in 2008.  No longer listed on the PRS website.  Not sure when it was discontinued.  I think @hubobulous might have had one at a gearfest thing.

Maybe PRS should sue Gibson

Ah yes, that's the one. Thanks!

JayGee

Wouldn't be my first choice to hang on the wall at home but as a "stage" guitar absolutely, definitely, 100%, YEAH BABY!

But then I do routinely rock a sparkly lilac PRS in public so maybe that's not the best reccomendation...

Flink_Poyd

Looks like it's made from bits of an old boat that they couldn't decide which colour to a paint. Off to Davey Jones locker with ye!

chrispy108

Rocker said:

I like it.  The gold knobs look perfect to my old eyes.  A bit of a rarity from Gibson.  It looks well made!

How are you deciding build quality from one picture of the body of a guitar? Mental.

I quite like it, the knobs don't go at all though.

And of course scratchplates on Les Pauls are terrible. On a Strat they make sense, they make making it and changing pickups etc much easier, on a LP it's just a shitty piece of plastic hiding a quarter of a nice finish held on with a bracket. Total afterthought.

ICBM

chrispy108 said:

Rocker said:

I like it.  The gold knobs look perfect to my old eyes.  A bit of a rarity from Gibson.  It looks well made!

How are you deciding build quality from one picture of the body of a guitar?

I was serious about the neck angle - you can see that the tailpiece is fully down, but the strings are clear of the back edge of the bridge (even allowing for the dodgy saddle positions), and the bridge pickup is not too high in its ring. Therefore the neck joint was made properly, and probably won't be "fitted" with shims, glue infil and fresh air like some of them are.

OK there can be other issues, but you're halfway to eliminating problems that can't be fixed already. The angle of the wood grain at the headstock is the other big one, and you can't see that at all.

guitarblaster

I like it! Like everyone has pretty much said, I wouldn't buy it!

Well I would if it was cheap! But it appears to be the opposite of cheap and insanely expensive!