Les Paul Classics - who likes em ?

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i've been offered a 95 LP Classic as part trade against a Suhr i'm selling, who has one and has good things to say ?

or if you hate em why ?
 
My main guitar for the past 10 years has been a 2001 Les Paul Classic. Great guitars. The 90s ones are outstanding, and don't have the funky color inlays. If you like a thinner neck carve, then you should be quite happy with it. The stock pickups aren't bad, but most change them out. I really can't think of a bad thing to say about them.

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The non-chambered ones are decent. I don't like the aged inlays though. They remind me of the colour of bad teeth, such as these:

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I love my '99 Classic. The stock pickups are very hot and alot of people don't like them. I personally love the 496R/500T they come with. Most of the Classics do have the greenish inlays unless you go way back to the very early 90's. The green inlays really don't bother me, mine aren't overly green, but some people really hate the inlays. IMO the Classics are killer guitars.


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I've turned down a few trade offers on those because of those ugly green inlays.

Too bad, because they played and sounded nice...... :aww:
 
Great necks if you don't like the typical Gibson baseball bat neck. Inlay color sucks.
 
I own many custom shop and vintage lp's but my 97 classic plus is the best sounding plugged or unplugged and playing guitAr i have. I have had a first yr and a 96 classic goldtop that were also great guitars. They have thin necks though and some don't like the stock pickups but I love them an think they are the best hums gibson makes these days for rock. Old classics have one pc bodies and necks and nice build quality that u can't get in current production Gibson without going custom shop.
 
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I own many custom shop and vintage lp's but my 97 classic plus is the best sounding plugged or unplugged and playing guitAr i have. I have had a first yr and a 96 classic goldtop that were also great guitars. They have thin necks though and some don't like the stock pickups but I love them an think they are the best hums gibson makes these days for rock. Old classics have one pc bodies and necks and nice build quality that u can't get in current production Gibson without going custom shop.
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I agree. I know alot don't like the pickups or the greenish inlays but pickups can be changed and even the greenish inlays can be changed if they bother someone that much. To me the Classics are very under rated. My '99 is probably the best sounding and playing guitar I've owned and I've owned alot. I love the Gibson LPC and other guitars I currently own also but I would let any one of them go before I would let my Classic go.
 
LP Classics were good solid guitars, depends on condition and what you have to give for it. I had one years back and was a fine guitar, 500T pickup was great (hot but great) def a slimmer neck profile, and yes some of those had some really green looking inlays, but thats the way it goes, heard about people leaving them outside in the sun for a while to bleach them out a little.
 
These were the precursor to the later Historic Standards I think. I had a 1992 or 93 model that I purchased from Mike at Ohio Guitars for $795.00 OTD. I didn't like the neck, so I sold it to a friend. It's one of his favorite LP's in his 300 + guitar collection. Those dark inlays are actually quite easy to replace.
 
Actually, origianally they didn't have the yellow /green inlays. Slick dealers were simply swapping out the pick guard and trussrod cover and selling them as 59 or 60 reissues and getting an extra grand or so as they were very similiar in build and quality. To stop this gibson first started printing les Paul classic on headstock instead of les Paul model. They also added the aged inlays which at first weren't bad but progressively got worse or more and more green as yrs went on. Somewhere in early to mid 2000's they started shipping with 2 pc bodies. If you buy a guitar to play you won't care all that much about the inlays.
 
I had a classic and loved it. It had the green inlays and a trick I learned was to leave it in a window in the house that has direct sunlight cover the body and head stock and let the light hit it a couple days. It worked for me and turned them an awesome color alot nicer than the pearloid.
 
Mine is a 2000 and it is the best LP I've ever played or have owned so far. There was a magic to the wood and although I've changed pickups and everything in-between, it still has that core sound I love.

I've changed the inlays out earlier in the year to MOP.

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