
thiswaythatway
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Shawn Lutz":19ybuz0a said:I have come to the conclusion that people who can't find a good quality LP are not really looking. I'm not talking about going into you Guitar center and picking up 4-5 Les Paul that has not been properly adjusted or set up and that 400 people wank on thumb-wheels.
Want an Epi? Buy it but it is not better that a USA gibson not matter how hard you try to convince yourself of that.
There are PoS's in every price lines so yes there are dogs out there I wont touch but the way some people carry on about Gibson its almost like they can build a guitar and that is just not true. I have 3 that bought used and didn't touch them before playing them. Mass produced 2012 Traditional +, and two historics, a 2008 57 RI LPC and a 2009 R7 goldtop...I'm 3 for 3.
What I can agree on is new prices are a bit crazy so I let other people take it in the shorts and buy used.
I looked last year for a while, bought and returned or sold all of them. There's a TON of shitty LP's out there on the used market. The one's I tried all had issues with the necks. I bought them knowing that but was hoping I'd be able to straighten the necks out with some truss rod adjustments but that wasn't the case. One I got from Sam Ash sounded good but had a big dip in the middle of the neck and the action was lowered as low as it could go. Obviously someone trying to cover up for a fucked neck. Got it home and the truss rod just spun loosely.

I did find a decent used standard in Black finally but in the same store there was a PRS Stripped 58. After about 20 minutes of going back and fourth the PRS sounded better to me. And quality, fit & finish.....perfect as expected. I was looking for a Gibson but gave up and bought the Stripped 58.
I had a 57 Reissue that didn't have any issues some years ago but didn't like the baseball bat neck. I also had a white custom that was some VOS model and that had a hump in the neck at the 7th fret that could not be adjusted out and it had buzzing and dead spots around those frets, sold that thing off.
My friend bought a 2014 Traditional that's pretty nice...........but the 2015's completely suck balls.