Les Paul or Strat?

[Mr Ed]

I want both!! I prefer the beef and tone you get from a solid, heavy bodied guitar with two humbuckers but Fender Strat necks are just so damn comfortable.

In a bind, I'll always turn to my "Les Paul" equivalent, ie, my Fernandes Ravelle. It's my Mister Dependable.

[Jp.]

I would like to say LP's. But seeing as I own 3 strats I'm gonna go the strat thing.

I've never played a good LP so I couldnt say I hate LP's. I just have always picked up horrible quality copies or some substandard version of the guitar. One day I hope to come across one that makes my jaw drop but unitll then I'll stay with the strats. My dream guitar (this week :lol: ) is a Silver burst LP from the 70's

Single cutaway guitars dont phase me. but I must admit the contoured heel on my strat, which I think Fender stole from Ibanez (dunno for sure), Is amazing for hanging around frets 17-22.

[carlaz]

Les Paul, sound, look, feel.
However, I generally like most the strat meets les paul jobs a la PRS.

+1 on that for me!

Though when I look at actual Fender styles, I tend to go for Teles more than Strats for whatever reason ....

[carlaz]

In a bind, I'll always turn to my "Les Paul" equivalent, ie, my Fernandes Ravelle. It's my Mister Dependable.

I've been kinda digging the looks of the Fernandes Dragonfly models.  I wish they had set necks instead of bolt-on, but they still look like a lotta guitar for the money!  

I think a 24-fret HSS with a fairly hefty (if not full-on LP-style) mahogany body would be good fun :)

[38thBeatle]

Well somewhat predictably, I would say Strats but that is not to say that I dislike LP or their derivatives.In fact I have played some great LP's over the years but Strats feel more familiar to me generally but hell, if it is a guitar then there is a fair chance that I'll like it. Mr "sit on the fence" as usual!

[BloodMountain]

i would love to try a PRS..... i know, you all must have done 1000 times but im younger than you lot! i love bands tones that use them e.g Opeth, Cradle, Alter Bridge, etc.

i was going to get an SE custom, but i heard the necks were fat, so.....

BM

[dave_mc]

i would love to try a PRS..... i know, you all must have done 1000 times but im younger than you lot! i love bands tones that use them e.g Opeth, Cradle, Alter Bridge, etc.

i was going to get an SE custom, but i heard the necks were fat, so.....

BM

i didn't think it was too bad... and the wide thin prs necks aren't that fat either.

[matteo]

a h-s-h super strat!!! the best of both worlds :headphones4:

[Dennis]

I'm not sure what I like at the moment!

After my first guitar (strat copy) I bought a gibson les paul studio, which I didn't like anymore after a while, and then bought a musicman silhouette, which is a stratlike guitar, after that I bought a Parker fly, and after that a Kritz stradovarius, which looks like a strat, but it is a mahogany-ish guitar with a maple set neck, and I really love that guitar too!

And I also was looking at a les paul standard faded this week again...because now I kind of regret that I sold the LP studio (especially since the second hand price nowadays is more than I paid new   )

So hell, I don't know what I want....I want everything I guess  :?

[broken cord]

I have to say the Strat feel, and the Les Paul look and sound. I have a Dean Hardtail that feels great, and sounds good too (waiting on some BK's) I love my BK'd SG

The main thing I liked about a PRS Custom 22 I used to have is the 25" scale, other than that I like the Dean USA Hardtail in every other respect.

[zigmund]

:D  Oh come on folks. We're guitarists, right?
One is too many, a thousand is never enough..isn't that what they say?
 Of course it's both and always will be until we add "actually I need THAT as well now".
  In the early 80s I swore that that was it with buckers, so got rid of the SG, to become for-all-time a "bluesman" with a strat.
Thing was I got to like whammy bars 6 years later and got an Ibanez;
then it was, "oh..something more vintagey", so then there was the Eggle;
then the strat was too "80s" so it was a return to Vintageville with a Jap68RI;
then it was "actually, I have to have a Les Paul or I'll never have one.
  Then, my fellow addicts, I just stopped getting rid of guitars in the vain hope that constant GAS-feeding would assuage my lust.
 Present housemates are the LP, the Strat, the Yam, the PRS and a really nice LP copy by Vintage, along with a Status S2 5-er..of course I tell myself they are all necessary because of recording(yeahright)...
The moral of the tale being that it is never "both" but "all"...it's just a matter of time... 8)

[TwilightOdyssey]

:D  Oh come on folks. We're guitarists, right?
One is too many, a thousand is never enough..isn't that what they say?

I think they say that about heroin! PDT_008

[dave_mc]

I think they say that about heroin! PDT_008

Here's to hoping I never start heroin, then, if my guitar GAS is anything to go by...

 :lol:

[plastercaster]

Strat - lighter, more comfortable, better balanced, doesnt give me a dead leg/ stiff back when i play, Tremolos, Front jack input, And doesn't look terrible/ have a headstock snap if you drop it. Having said that I haven't properly played an SG.
I prefer the beefier tone of LPs though, so i think my next gas fuelled purchase will be a HSS strat.