Les Paul Custom Classic.

[thiswaythatway]

Anyone ever played one of these? I was in GC playing a few Gibson's and one after another they sucked. They had a regular used classic that was junk, a cool looking used 1981 standard but it was beat to hell and played like garbage. I played some traditional's.....*egh*. And I don't care if the standards sound ok, I'm not buying a Les Paul that weighs 6 LBS.

But then I played the Custom Classic and wasn't sure what it was, and it's priced low for a Gibson at $1900. It's exactly what it says, a mixture or classic and custom but it has a roasted maple neck. Did the feds take all their rosewood? I'm pretty sure it's weight relieved but that never bothered me as I think those models sound the same as the solid models. But this guitar was cool, looked great, and it actually was setup right and played really nice. I played it through a Line6/Bogner and from what I could tell it sounded nice and I couldn't find many flaws on it.

I did play one of those swirl models and thought it was a pile of junk. Felt cheap and it has so many finish flaws all over it the thing was laughable. But the Custom Classic was a nice surprise.

 

[thegame]

Shopping for a nice Gibson = playing Russian Roulette if the barrel had 50 chambers

 

[rlord1974]

Hey Danny, if you like the looks of that guitar, why not just buy my 1978 Les Paul Custom? It has a REAL ebony board, none of this burnt/toasted/roasted/spit-cooked maple nonsense.....

 

[Phrygian]

Hey Danny, if you like the looks of that guitar, why not just buy my 1978 Les Paul Custom? It has a REAL ebony board, none of this burnt/toasted/roasted/spit-cooked maple nonsense.....

Whoa! How much are you asking? That's a beauty! Makes me think of Mick Ronson.

 

[tweed]

Hey Danny, if you like the looks of that guitar, why not just buy my 1978 Les Paul Custom? It has a REAL ebony board, none of this burnt/toasted/roasted/spit-cooked maple nonsense.....

Now that is a nice looking guitar. Take that roasted toasted rye bread shit and chuck it lol.

 

[blackba]

Great looking guitar rlord1974. Maple fretboards just don't look right to me on a Les Paul.....

 

[nikki-k]

Dammit, dammit, dammit... I love LPC's, and that one is absolutely beautiful!!! I owned an old LPC natural (mid-70's) back in the early 80's that was so sweet. Regret selling it.. so this just tweaked me

 

[daver101]

Mmmm.....burnt maple.......

 

[shreder75]

so what you're saying is that you don't like Gibsons?

It's been weeks since you've said it, so thanks for the reminder....hee heee

 

[Stramm8]

I like it. One of the best playing/feeling LPs I played was one of those Zakk Wylde models; it just looked ridiculous. I like the maple necks so this cool development. Do they come in black?

 

[thiswaythatway]

Hey Danny, if you like the looks of that guitar, why not just buy my 1978 Les Paul Custom? It has a REAL ebony board, none of this burnt/toasted/roasted/spit-cooked maple nonsense.....

Nice looking, but most Custom's I've played weighed about 15 lbs and have no frets left and are seriously over priced. I'm guessing a 78 Natural Custom could fetch over 3k.

 

[troublehead]

I went to 4 GC's in one day last week trying out LP's. I played 2 Traditionals, 1 Standard, 2 Traditional Pro's, a Custom Classic, and 3 Faded Studios. The Custom Classic (exact same finish you posted) was by far the best playing/sounding of the bunch. I looked it over carefully and didn't find any finish/set-up flaws either.........was an awesome guitar. The 2nd best sounding one was one of the Studio Faded ones. The Traditional Pros I played really sucked. Both were dead acoustically and lacked sustain when plugged in. The Traditionals were decent and the Standard was "meh".

 

[RV8guy]

That natural finish is super sexy! If only it had a ebony fretboard.

 

[The Hoff]

That natural finish is super sexy! If only it had a ebony fretboard.

 

[joepete77]

with 2 grand to spend you would be much better off getting a used gibson then any of the new substitute models that are off spec and I doubt will have any real resale value. You can find a real lp custom with the ebony board for that much play it for yrs and never loose a penny an maybe make a few, or an old early 90's lp classic. You can even find used r8 or r7 if u look around for that price. They all have a one piece body and correct fingerboards.

 

[steve_k]

Gibson's new Balsa Wood guitars.

 

[thiswaythatway]

with 2 grand to spend you would be much better off getting a used gibson then any of the new substitute models that are off spec and I doubt will have any real resale value. You can find a real lp custom with the ebony board for that much play it for yrs and never loose a penny an maybe make a few, or an old early 90's lp classic. You can even find used r8 or r7 if u look around for that price. They all have a one piece body and correct fingerboards.

Like i said, the Custom Classic pretty much smoked a 1981 standard they had and an older Classic. As long as it says Gibson on it, it's going to hold value. And go ahead and buy a new Custom for 4k and see if you can get 4k used for it. That won't happen.