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by Dan_Q » Sat May 18, 2019 12:59 am
Interesting thread- congrats to those won over by the GAS, hope you enjoy! those modern gloss studios do look delicious, i love that recent "tangerine burst" colour especially.
My relationship with gibsons (the mac just autocorrected that to gibbons- believe me that's a whole other story) is very different to my relationship with fender, dunno why. In my first 15 years of playing i was just a 1 guitar man, with a spare- owned 3 strats in total and no other guitars from 1994 ish until 2008.
In '08 when the buying frenzy started, i bought a les paul- unseen- second hand, AFTER splitting with fiancee (story not good enough for reddit). It arrived, i loved it, had a bit of buzz so took it in and had a fret dress and set up, and its been perfect. It's a '97 studio, fat neck, rosewood board, 16 tonnes (no idea on the actual weight but perhaps heavier than my CBS strat) but its just perfect. Its worn through the nitro on the upper bout and theres knocks and bangs everywhere, so been well used in the past. I've only looked at one other LP since buying that guitar- just because I love green and had a chance on a gecko burst standard. Too rich for me tho!
With fenders / squiers (i love squiers equally) I've owned loads of the things!!! 20 maybe? keep chopping and changing etc, trying different models. When I need to play some rock, i just pull out the LP and off I go. And I don't seem to GAS for another........ or to try a different model.
I will admit that when I started seeing current girlfriend who let me keep a couple of guitars at her flat, I have since bought another gibson for that end, but it's not a les paul- I just don't feel i need another.
Anyhow sorry for going on, just thought I'd share that.......