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Scratch plate is sat in a box somewhere.
Go on the hunt with a budget and spend a few weeks looking.
My band, Red For Dissent
Fortunate to be able to borrow since xmas a 2004 .. a CS les paul custom and compare.
The eastman hands down beats the Gibson on build quality, finish and spec. The CS has appeal on the sound over the SB59, more the church organ than the sb59 synth and plays a bit better, but lots heavier.
Second hand id say Sb59 and perhaps pup swap to suit your own taste. £1500 territory. I think that option is way better than a S/H Gibson standard. If gibson is a must double the money and go CS custom or R8 imho.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
https://heritageguitars.com/
I've owned several Gibsons as well as Japanese and Korean copies. Also owned a Heritage H-150.
Pros:
If you want that big, humbucking rock tone, an LP is the way to get it.
They look cool as f*ck
Cons:
Many of them weigh as much as a small house and the crushing pressure on your shoulder and back gets old really quickly.
The upper fret access is terrible. Anything above the 15th fret is a struggle.
If you're used to playing Fender style guitars, the geometry is weird. The bridge seems high and everything slopes backwards towards the headstock.
The way the strings splay out between the nut and the tuners doesn't help with tuning stability.
If you sneeze too hard within 10 ft of the guitar, the headstock will fall off.
Last year, I bit the bullet and bought a nice vintage style LP which had been fitted with BK PAF type pickups and 50s wiring. I played nothing else until I ‘got it’ and have since upgraded to an R8.
Yes, Gibson’s quality is ‘variable’ but ultimately if you want ‘that’ tonality, I don’t think anything else quite does it.
cheap-looking rattly plastic paper dart screwed onto the front of a beautiful guitar.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I get that other people adjust between guitars just fine - I'm comfortable admitting that it's largely due to me not being a good player that makes it hard to adjust.
I've a 2014 standard (which several techs and some of my guitar playing pals all say is one of the best les paul's they've ever played). I prefer my older Japanese Tokai LC85 personally... but the gibson is lighter, and so I do use that quite a bit.
It's a very personal thing, so just go out and try a bunch.. or buy blindly and hope you like it