shar-vell Dan
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I remember when you could buy a Gibson LPC or Burst in a pawn shop for $400 bucks.
The Les Paul Custom is Back!! - Gibson USA Les Paul Custom '70s Guitars
I remember when you could buy a Gibson LPC or Burst in a pawn shop for $400 bucks.
SgtThump
Real OG
The action is too low on that guitar for me. I’m not into that tone.
It’s very obvious on the clean tones.
shar-vell Dan
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but but the neck is maple lol.
skoora
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He states in the video exactly what I didn’t like about the OG mid/late 70’s ones too. The maple neck and ebony board give a top end that I find peaky or shrill. It’s weird because I’ve played bolt on neck guitars with ebony boards that didn't strike me that way but every LPC I’ve owned or tried over the years from that period had that quality. The fret buzz was insane on this one. Don’t know how he played that and thought, yeah let’s go.
Simon Dorn
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I don't think that's a bad thing. The Neck-Through-3Piece-Maple Neck is very good and stable on my ESP
LPMojoGL
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Kick myself in the ass for selling that LP so I could buy a PRS CU24 10 top. Next guitar I bought was an 02 LP Classic.
Here it sits, in my music room, with ss jumbo frets and ToneNerd PAFs
LPMojoGL
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Jerry was a guitarist's guitarist. Splendid entertainer. Much respect.
Simon Dorn
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griff10672
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mine shows up tomorrow ....... can't wait !!
Maguchi
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It's on my list. I penciled it in.
griff10672
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the bastards bumped my delivery time to tomorrow ......
I knew I should have kept my mouth shut .... I must have jinxed my Wed delivery ...
I knew I should have kept my mouth shut .... I must have jinxed my Wed delivery ...
Pushead
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Looks like the top carve doesn't match any of my late 70s LPs.
The "carve" on my guitars are the only major critique I have of them.
The "carve" on my guitars are the only major critique I have of them.
TheGreatGreen
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How is the carve different?
GJgo
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I played a new 70s LPC last night against my R8 & my '68 LPC. It's a VERY different guitar!
- The neck is thin & flat. Very not LP like.
- The PUPs have a lot of detail, in that..
- The tone is all mids & no ass. It won't thump you like a 58, 68 or modern LPC will.
- That said, it's a 100% ROCK guitar and I think it sounds killer for what it is! I was impressed.
- Only complaint was the upper fret access was chunkier than all the others. Not sure why, maybe the relativity of the thinner neck?
- It did have a USA serial number, and IIRC all of the white "LPC"s are painted in the USA facility. So, I have my suspicions this is a Custom in name only.
TheGreatGreen
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Correct, the 70's LPC's are made by Gibson USA, not the Custom Shop like the other Customs.
Pushead
Active member
It isn't really so much of a dish carve (where it sort of bubbles up in the middle, inside of the burst edges) as it is just an overall roundness from edge to edge. It's hard to describe and I'm not sure I've ever caught a good photo of it.
TheGreatGreen
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Oh cool. Yeah sounds interesting.
Pushead
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It was a thing that evolved over the years. The explanation that I read (20ish years ago when I bought them) was that over the years, the carving/duplicator "machine" Gibson used wore down and so instead of getting the nice carve that started in the 50s, by the late 70s it was just an simple arch.
I dunno if there is any truth to that.
I dunno if there is any truth to that.
