Done with Les Pauls

Guitar Adjuster · Post by **Guitar Adjuster** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:54 pm

The best Les Paul I ever owned was a HAMER!!!

You should try one out if you like that body style either double cut (Studio Custom) or single cut (Monaco Elite).

fillmore nyc · Post by **fillmore nyc** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:05 pm

Its amazing to hear so many different opinions on the same thing. Its kinda like women... one guy thinks she's hot, the other guy thinks she's not.
Personally, I couldnt live without my LP. I love all my guitars, but if I HAD to keep just one, it'd be my LP.

Billy Batz wrote: Im so damn impulsive.

Me too. Probably my biggest downfall as far as guitars and amps go. If I see something I want, and I DONT buy it, it'll haunt me till I do buy it.
Seriously, its an addiction...
But I dont have a problem... I could give it up ANY time... I swear I could.

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Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:51 am

On the other hand it has led me to try a huge amount of gear over the years.

Adjuster Ive been giving great thought to Hamers recently as well. Thats the first thing that steered me away from the Historics. I just dont know if I trust a big name like Gibson to consistently make a great instrument which I think is the opposite of how most people think.

jfhudak · Post by **jfhudak** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:36 am

Hey Fellers,

YEAH, Hamers are good guitars. I might go that route, but for now I know which Gibsons I like, and it seems to be the mahagony types.

I listened to both my Les Pauls last night unplugged, and then to the Explorer. The Les Pauls don't ring out like the Explorer does. As a matter of fact, my last Firebird had the same qualities, it rang out. It's like this hollow sound, that's hard to describe but when you put it through an amp it suits me. SGs are similar in the way they ring out. Must be the thinner mahagony bodies. They almost sound cheap like a Danelectro when you play them acoustically but man alive do they sound good when they go through an amp.

My ears are changing. I like different sounds now, and the guys in Badfinger didn't play Les Pauls, for example (saw Pete Ham with one on occasion). They mostly used SGs and Firebirds (I've seen the pictures). They also used Hiwatts, but that's another story.

What I'd like to do, is to somehow get these two guitars that I have now into a VOS SG reissue (with a vibrola), and another Firebird V. I don't like the Nashville bridges on the newer Firebirds, but I can deal with that later. No more ebony fretboards for me, either.

Either way, my Les Paul days are over unless a REALLY special one comes along.

Peace Fellers!

Johnny Reb

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:19 pm

I love my Heritage Gary Moore models, they are alongside my old '54 Junior and my current '52/'56 GT, the best Gibsons I have ever played

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Firebirds are way diffferent and an old V was the only FB I have really played, same with SG's, no history with them, but Strats or Strat types are my first love and still favorite.

Found this great article:
http://www.modernguitars.com/sugiyama/a ... 03280.html
yngwie308

fillmore nyc · Post by **fillmore nyc** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:14 pm

jfhudak wrote: I don't like the Nashville bridges on the newer Firebirds, but I can deal with that later.

I had an idea a while back to find a generic USA reissue Firebird, and remove the tune-o-matic / stoptail set up all together, install some bushings and studs and drop in a wraptail bridge. I was figuring on inlaying something nice over where the holes for the stop tail went, maybe an ebony copy of the lyre vibrola cover, with some pearl trim. Kind of a fancied-up poor-mans Firebird III. That set up routed for a pair of WCR Crossroads or Fillmores would rock for sure.