ROBOTS GONE MAD

[northern_dirt]

I think everyone's being a bit unnecessary to poor old Gibson. I'd rather have a robot tuner LP than anything with a Floyd Rose on it.  Or no headstock. 

Seriously guys - there are worse things.

Yeah strats...

Again, fightin talk  I love my $trat, even if it is a beat-to-hell '95 Squier.

haha.. I just hate so much about them..
mines a 91 MIJ

[StevenO]

I love strats. I just don't like the way the look when I play them. Know what I mean?

[northern_dirt]

I love strats. I just don't like the way the look when I play them. Know what I mean?

yup.. I dont like the way they ever look..
hahaha so I can understand..

though the ones with the oversized headstocks look ok..
rather have a 72 tele deluxe custom with that headstock though..

I used to have a left handed Jaguar strat comy that was fun to throw around
no clue where I left it or trashed it..

[1946dodge]

It's worse than the new Jennifer Lopez video they are advertising on EVERY FUCKING cable channel lately.

Why is Jennifer Lopez's ass now robot controlled?
The horror!!!!

[1946dodge]

The only thing I dont like about Gibsons is their necks  decapitate theemselves spontaneously and no one should have to worry about a broken headstock when he or she has paid over 1000 bucks for a guitar. Plus you can tear your rotator cuff playing some of them.
They do look nice and sound good too.

[northern_dirt]

decapitate theemselves spontaneously..

This is true.. My deluxe, which ive kicked the crap out of, has remained strong though..

Ive been meaning to put up a pic of my 74 headless special.. hehe
Probally trade it to someone willing to do the head re set for a MIJ jag/jazz

[sp3k]

Gibson has some fine guitars, but they're to expensive, most of them not worth the price...

[guitardude]

Gibson has some fine guitars, but they're to expensive, most of them not worth the price...

tell me about it. my $950 SG Special that i thounght was top notch...until i played my friend's Standard. his had binding on the neck. mine doesn't. so when i play, i feel the fret edges  i'll be selling mine soon. they aren't bad, but to get a good gibson, you gotta smash your piggy bank...

[marco_80]

Gibson has some fine guitars, but they're to expensive, most of them not worth the price...

tell me about it. my $950 SG Special that i thounght was top notch...until i played my friend's Standard. his had binding on the neck. mine doesn't. so when i play, i feel the fret edges  i'll be selling mine soon. they aren't bad, but to get a good gibson, you gotta smash your piggy bank...

Do you really think so? I'm planning to get a Les Paul Studio, actually I don't mind bindings that much, although I do admit they're cool

[northern_dirt]

Don't listen to me on this, but I hated the Stuido I got..
Sold it for $200 a couple years after getting it.. I have 2 76 LPs that totally kill it

[symbolique]

Couple the new LED + tuning heads courtesy of AMD on that Gibson with that left hand toy capo like thing you can get to hold down chords for you and the Guitar Heroes of the world only need to strum to be on stage.

I'm sure they'll think of something for that soon.

Kind regards
Jason Just

[mezcalhead]

to get a good gibson, you gotta smash your piggy bank...

Well, I dunno .. as far as I can gather, Gibsons are quite variable these days so you have to play quite a few of them to find a really good one .. I guess the cheaper the line, the more you have to play, but the good ones are still there.

I had a black Studio that I just sold so I could get a second-hand R6. The R6 is a better guitar, but not by a huge amount. I really liked the Studio but in the end I'm pretty rubbish with humbuckers and P90s are much more my speed. Anyway, the point being: that Studio was a fine guitar and pretty reasonably priced as well.

Note that I played both Gibsons before buying them .. ideally you'd do that for any guitar before buying but for Gibsons I think it's a must .. plus with the glass headstocks I'd get way too nervous waiting for a Gibson to ship ..

(Oddly enough, the thing I miss most about the Studio is its gig-bag .. really nice to carry and fit a Jazzmaster perfectly .. go figure.)

[luau]

Here's an interesting image I downloaded and filed from LPF a while back.

The top is a Standard, the bottom a Historic.



I think you get what you pay for really. At the same time, I agree with mezcalhead. My comparatively inexpensive SG Classic absolutely roars. My inexpensive recent Deluxe is a great guitar too although I dislike the pickups and, predictably really, the inlay work isn't that great. It sounds good unplugged and plays wonderfully though. The differences between my R6 and Deluxe are pretty profound. The construction quality/design is just in two different leagues. The R6, which is solid, weighs less than the Deluxe, which, like all non-Custom Shop LPs AFAIK, is swiss cheesed. Is it worth an extra $1000? I don't know. I'm happy with both at the price I paid for them.

[B]

That image might be a bit dated... I've seen tenons extend into the neck pickup cavity on several standards.  But still, it gives a good idea at the amount of difference between the two.  The Historics are very nice guitars.

BTW, The Gibson rep came into our shop on Wednesday and said that there are several Epiphone Les Paul models coming out in 08 that will feature long neck tenons.  Epiphone has made some real progress the past couple of years toward building some really quality guitars for the money.

Oh, and for anyone interested, the new Gibson ES-339 guitars are insanely awesome guitars.  I had to buy myself one.

[northern_dirt]

Oh, and for anyone interested, the new Gibson ES-339 guitars are insanely awesome guitars.  I had to buy myself one.

Are they basically just mini bodied ES-335?