dman_vegas
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Hello folks, first-time posting to the group so be gentle.
I pulled the trigger on my first Custom Shop Les Paul and I feel like a fool for not doing so sooner! The guitar is a 2021 '58 Standard in Lemonburst with '59 spec frets. I don't know how they number these things, but it was made in December 2020 so I hope the people in the shop were happy and full of Christmas cheer when they made it! The serial number is a 2021 number so maybe that's when they stamped it.
I spent lots of time and money on lesser guitars and thought the Gibson Custom Shop was for collectors only. Surely Tone could be found in the USA models for less. Well, my 2003 LP Standard 50's and 2017 LP Classic with Mojotone '59 PAF clones did sound pretty good, but you just don't know what you don't know. This '58 is on another level.
I could not be happier with the guitar and it really is a fine musical instrument as opposed to just a "guitar". I'm hearing things I never heard before out of the other guitars I've owned. I stuck some chords with the neck pickup and the sound actually got louder after the initial strum, the bridge pickup has harmonic sounds and overtones that I never heard coming out of my Friedman before. I timed a few notes for sustain vs the USA models I have and sure enough, there is a measurable increase in sustain.
This one has a neck output of 7.8 and the bridge is 7.7 (which seems odd to me). The neck is louder and more powerful sounding than the bridge - I will have to get used to that but there is a volume knob. The frets are med. jumbo '59 spec, so unless I'm wrong it's basically a '59 with a slightly bigger neck and aged inlays for a lot less than a '59. I'd love to know what the real differences are.
As a bonus, I think the guitar looks really nice. More importantly to me, it plays and sounds great. Thanks for looking and glad to have joined the site!
I pulled the trigger on my first Custom Shop Les Paul and I feel like a fool for not doing so sooner! The guitar is a 2021 '58 Standard in Lemonburst with '59 spec frets. I don't know how they number these things, but it was made in December 2020 so I hope the people in the shop were happy and full of Christmas cheer when they made it! The serial number is a 2021 number so maybe that's when they stamped it.
I spent lots of time and money on lesser guitars and thought the Gibson Custom Shop was for collectors only. Surely Tone could be found in the USA models for less. Well, my 2003 LP Standard 50's and 2017 LP Classic with Mojotone '59 PAF clones did sound pretty good, but you just don't know what you don't know. This '58 is on another level.
I could not be happier with the guitar and it really is a fine musical instrument as opposed to just a "guitar". I'm hearing things I never heard before out of the other guitars I've owned. I stuck some chords with the neck pickup and the sound actually got louder after the initial strum, the bridge pickup has harmonic sounds and overtones that I never heard coming out of my Friedman before. I timed a few notes for sustain vs the USA models I have and sure enough, there is a measurable increase in sustain.
This one has a neck output of 7.8 and the bridge is 7.7 (which seems odd to me). The neck is louder and more powerful sounding than the bridge - I will have to get used to that but there is a volume knob. The frets are med. jumbo '59 spec, so unless I'm wrong it's basically a '59 with a slightly bigger neck and aged inlays for a lot less than a '59. I'd love to know what the real differences are.
As a bonus, I think the guitar looks really nice. More importantly to me, it plays and sounds great. Thanks for looking and glad to have joined the site!
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