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Philly Q

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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2011, 05:21:45 PM »
Quote from: nfe on April 12, 2011, 02:45:04 PM
Of course you can change the stoptail, and of course they are perfectly workable with common string gauges in "standard" tunings. But when you're building a a guitar clearly angled towards a lot of people who are going to have big strings and low tunings, it seems bizarre not to stick something adjustable on it.

Do you think it's angled towards the big strings and low tunings community?  To me it seems more like something for vintage fans who like to live a little dangerously once in a while.
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2011, 05:24:41 PM »
Yeah possibly. Just a single pickup LPC seems SO metal to me. A stripped down custom kinda being the opposite of what I'd think even dangerous-living vintage fans would gravitate towards.

That said, given Gibson's DMT based design team there's every chance a target market never occurred to them at all.
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2011, 05:24:55 PM »
i also have doubts that was intended to be a br00talz guitar, i'm saying blues rock
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2011, 06:12:58 PM »
Quote from: nfe on April 12, 2011, 05:24:41 PM
Yeah possibly. Just a single pickup LPC seems SO metal to me. A stripped down custom kinda being the opposite of what I'd think even dangerous-living vintage fans would gravitate towards.

I'm not exactly a vintage fan (certainly not in a "collector" sense), but I am very much a Les Paul Jr fan, and I've always liked the aesthetics of a black/gold LP Custom (but never seriously considered buying one).  Combining the two does seem rather bold and exciting!
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2011, 08:33:55 PM »
Personally I favour the rawness and simplicity of the Junior to the more sophisticated Les Paul 'missing one pu'.  :)
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2011, 09:38:36 AM »
Quote from: Telerocker on April 12, 2011, 08:33:55 PM
Personally I favour the rawness and simplicity of the Junior to the more sophisticated Les Paul 'missing one pu'.  :)

Agree - also the headstock looks like one of those chinese "velly nice" guitars sold on ebay - prefer the original narrow headstocks.

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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2011, 05:11:54 PM »
to be honest i prefer "regular" les pauls (i love the looks of single HB guitars, just i'm not sure about H-x les pauls), but it looks great nonetheless! with a ceramic pig and a miniswitch to split coils in place of the tone pot it would slay! ;)
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2011, 06:29:59 PM »
Why use ceramic pigs when you can get 90 ceramic pigs in a box xD
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2011, 07:48:41 PM »
lovely guitar, but for the price (i'm assuming it's north of a grand) why would you buy a 1 pup guitar?
if you've loads of money it's not important but a neck pup is worth having even if it's only for using from time to time. 
won't even cost more.
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2011, 08:21:45 PM »
Well mainly because of the design. And my philosophy in life is that neck pickups are bad, and therefore should be avioded :)
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2011, 08:22:45 PM »
I think it'll be upwards of 2k, never mind one. Well, if it's still pitched as a custom. What's a normal custom nowadays? Last time I looked at one on a wall it was £2,799 (in GuitarGuitar, not a wee independent).

If it's still a custom, and doesn't just look like one, it'll be reet dear.
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2011, 09:54:55 PM »
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Re: Gibson ruins me..
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2011, 11:20:32 PM »
It looks too big with only one pickup, kind of out of proportion. Maybe if they made the body a bit smaller it would look better.
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