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Les Paul must not have been a smoker.

Rock-On!!

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Just an observation,

I am among the group of holdouts that has yet to quit smoking. I know I need to quit, so I don’t need a lecture. I was just wondering about other player/smokers and there thoughts about cigarette placement while playing.

What I mean by this is, when playing a Strat type of guitar, the headstock string angle area is a perfect place to hold your smoldering butt. On a Les Paul there is no convenient place to put your butt. Had Les Paul been a smoker when he designed the guitar, he surly would have kept this in mind.
Don’t you think?:hmm
 

sinner

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I don't smoke while I play--that, like sex, is for after the job.
 

SFK

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Rock-On!! said:
Just an observation,

I am among the group of holdouts that has yet to quit smoking. I know I need to quit, so I don’t need a lecture. I was just wondering about other player/smokers and there thoughts about cigarette placement while playing.

What I mean by this is, when playing a Strat type of guitar, the headstock string angle area is a perfect place to hold your smoldering butt. On a Les Paul there is no convenient place to put your butt. Had Les Paul been a smoker when he designed the guitar, he surly would have kept this in mind.
Don’t you think?:hmm

Heres what I do:

Leave about an inch of the A string poking out of the tuner after a restring.

Poke the filter into the string. Viola...Magic floating cancer stick.

I'm down to about 2 packs a week.


Like so:

163372564.jpg
 

MikeSlub

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Well... in addition to Les, I don't think Leo Fender was sitting around the shop while designing the Strat and thinking, "If I make the headstock string angle like this, then smokers can put their cigarettes here..." :hmm
 

holygrail

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SFK said:
Heres what I do:

Leave about an inch of the A string poking out of the tuner after a restring.

Poke the filter into the string. Viola...Magic floating cancer stick.

I'm down to about 2 packs a week.


Like so:

163372564.jpg


Better than my 68 Es335 12

The guy who previously owned it used to keep his under the low E and burned a nice spot .
 

Buffaloe

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Breaks are for smoking. You can do 45 without a fag.
 

sinner

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MikeSlub said:
Well... in addition to Les, I don't think Leo Fender was sitting around the shop while designing the Strat and thinking, "If I make the headstock string angle like this, then smokers can put their cigarettes here..." :hmm

What about the "ash tray" bridge cover?
 

J T

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Even if Les Paul was a smoker, back in his day for his style of music, sticking a lit cigarette on the headstock of the guitar would have been shocking to his audience. That sort of behavior was only done by backroom after hours guitar players.:2cool
 

NewOldCokeDave

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I quit after 29 years.. Cold Turkey.. I'd been using patches, gum, hypno, etc, etc.. Been trying to quit for 10 years.. Cold Turkey is the *ONLY* way to go IMNSHO. Watched my Dad whither away from emphysema and lung/liver cancer. Finally the switch flipped and I quit.. Over 15 months now..

anyway, NEVER have smoked on stage, or stuck them on the guitars.. Just couldn't do it..
 

jeffc

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I decided to quit 2 years ago when someone gave me an invitation to the Custom shop fantasy camp in Nashville .

I live FAR from Nashville. I did not have any Gibson guitars at the time. I decided to accept the invitation (how would you refuse something like that) and with the money saved by quiting the cigarette, I paid myself the best trip of my life and my first Gibson, a Les Paul standard I bought at Gruhn.

Never smoked since.

I'll be at the Custom shop party this month... and I tell you the money that was not put on smoke ...will be happily use for my secong Gibby :applaude
 
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