hey all, just picked this up off craigslist today for my new doom project. lately gibson has been making some questionable decisions (min e-tune standard on a standard? please.) and the QC on some later models have been pretty abysmal like on my friends new T but i couldn't believe how great this thing feels and what great shape its in for a 21 year old instrument.
ebony fretboard, solid mahogany so not chambered or weight relieved so it weighs about 11 lbs which is just how i like my les pauls! i think i may have gotten a one piece body too! i did a little research and apparently the early 90s studios were probably the best in the models history which i definitely believe. I've played several studios before and they all felt very meh, very low-tier but this thing kicks the crap out of all of them. its simply better built and just sounds fuller. sustains for ....ing ever and just generally sounds heavy and pissed off. currently have .13s with a wound third on it in A standard.
I have an ebony board LP studio, chrome on black. It's the best guitar I've ever owned hands down. I bought it in '96 and haven't put it down since. It had the headstock nearly come off when I rested it on a table and it slid off and landed face first, that was professionally repaired. I had a strap lock fail at the precise moment I raised my hands above my head, it survived the drop. It has worn beautifully down to the wood on the corner where my forearm rests and the nitro finish is pretty hazy now, I bought some supplies to strip it down and buff/polish it out again. It stays in tune better than any stringed instrument I've ever owned. I bought a brand new Japanese ESP Eclipse II to retire the LP and it didn't happen. The ESP became a back up. I can't say enough good things about it. That's no bullshit at all.
Why do these legendary companies like Gibson try to improve what isn't broken?
Thanks for the kind words errbody, im falling more and more in love with it every day. Now im just thinking of possible pickups to try out. Maybe alnico warpigs? The neck pickup sounds great but the bridge is extremely hot
