Your opinions: the Les Paul Vs the Superstrat

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Superstrat. All day long and twice on Sundays.

I've yet to find a Lester I can enjoy playing. Something about the neck angle and body size, I dunno. ES-335's I like, SG's are cool, but a Lester just feels fundamentally wrong to me.

I'll take a PRS over a Les Paul, please. Heresy!
 
I like both, but I'll take a Les paul every time. Love the way they feel, play, and sound.

 
I'm much more comfortable on the super Strat but I'm getting used to my Pauls. I suppose that I'd have to pick a super Strat if I could only choose one guitar.
 
Superstrats are more comfortable, lighter and a lot of the time easier to play.

Every once in a while you come across something that doesn't sound right on anything but a LP though. That's why I have both and always will.
 
I like the upper fret access that the strat offers. I do not like that thick area where the neck bolts onto the body. The neck angle of the Lester fits my fat belly much better than the strat, making it more comfortable to play. I have an SG with the high fret access, but it just doesn't hang the way the Lester does. I have taken to playing my V more as it has the upper fret access and hangs just like the Lester. It's also much lighter than Lester, but at the end of the day it just doesn't have *that* sound that my Lester does, so I keep coming back.
 
les paul, it feels comfortable to me, i love the feel of the necks, love the tone, i like the scale length.
 
superstrat, it just fits better w\the stuff I play, plus the trem. Having said that, there's something just plain fucking magical about an LP. 10+ pounds of badass mahogany. It punches in a different way. Good thing I've got both:)
 
59Bassman":v165dh4g said:
Superstrat. All day long and twice on Sundays.

I've yet to find a Lester I can enjoy playing. Something about the neck angle and body size, I dunno. ES-335's I like, SG's are cool, but a Lester just feels fundamentally wrong to me.
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+1...Superstrat all day, mostly the way they fit me when standing, I like a trem too so...that said I have 3 LP's and a PRS too...
 
Yeah but I also love & need Strat sounds, so I want both singles and HB pickups. My Suhr with 5 position switch HSH and coil tap push pull on tone knob gives me any tone pretty much in one guitar, any classic tone I want. The HB's sound really thick and close enough to a LP, but no way to make a LP sound anything like a strat so that and how it fits my body kind of seal it for me.
 
Of the two, I prefer the Les Paul. I like superstrats too.

I prefer a Parker Fly over either design though.
 
Parker Fly is cool, had one for some time but that upper horn didn't work for me so I didn't play it much.
 
I love my Suhr superstats!!

Why, because they feel great to play, stay in tune incredibly well, offer quick access to a wide variety of great sounds, and possibly most importantly.....offer awesome single coil and humbucker sounds with an easy and quick change to the 5 blade switch! My Suhr guitars don't sound like a LP at all, but I truly love all of the sounds they offer!

While I really do like some of the sound offerings of the Les Paul, and have owned a few in my lifetime......they just haven't worked for my needs.
 
love my pauls and super strats, better tone on the paul and better playability on my suhr modern and j custom!
 
The 24.75 scale kills it for me past the 12th fret on a Paul. Just too tight for my fingers. Besides, I grew up in the 80's and never lost my affinity for superstrats and particularily, Jackson/Charvels.
 
9 times out of 10, Super Strat or just Strat for me, but for some things an LP just kills it. I think the LP looks a bit cooler too.
 
IMHO Peavey Wolfgang is the best of both worlds!
I prefer Superstrats. I'm a 80ies kid.
 
Steinmetzify":2mt7vmxu said:
Superstrats are more comfortable, lighter and a lot of the time easier to play.

Every once in a while you come across something that doesn't sound right on anything but a LP though. That's why I have both and always will.
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You said my thoughts....although I'll also add that I prefer the sound of superstrats overall as well.
 
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