Yes, for a personal Les Paul, that’d be my choice as well. Thanks for watching.

Just got a les Paul special and it is an animal. P90s are something everyone needs to experience

Thank you my friend. Funny thing is, I’m really not a Les Paul guy. But if I were going to buy one for personal use, it’d probably be the goldtop with the P90s.

Thank you so much. I will continue as long as I can. I very much appreciate viewers like you.

Well enjoy it my friend. Thanks for watching.

Thank you so much. I’m very happy you found me. Stay tuned.

Nice. Glad you found a keeper. Thanks and enjoy it.

As I understand it, Gibson Pleks the guitar during production with the strings off, simulating string tension, which isn’t ideal. From Sweetwater’s website: Yes, it’s true that all top-tier Gibsons arrive Plek’d from the factory. But we’re able to Plek your Gibson using your preferred strings for an added level of precision. In our experience, a Plek Pro treatment from the skilled eyes and experienced touch of our in-house luthiers can add the final level of polish to an already great Gibson. The subtext isn’t hard to understand. Thanks for watching and enjoy your guitar.

Thanks so much my friend. Very happy you enjoy the channel.

Thanks so much. Glad you’re enjoying yours. And if you’re referring to the rosewood, yeah, Gibson sends out some pretty dry ones. Thankfully the solution is simple enough.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it and enjoy your guitars.

Thanks so much. Very happy you found the channel.

It’s a classic. 😊

Thanks so much. So glad you enjoyed it.

Well, it wouldn’t be in my budget either if I’d planned to keep it! Thanks for watching.

I feel the same way about Strats.

Actually I’m not really a Les Paul guy myself. I like them, but they’re never my first choice. Thanks for watching.

I was always a Fender player, but a wise luthier recommended I get a Les Paul and just keep it around for when I wanted a change or a specific sound. Mine sat around for years, hardly touched, then for some reason I just bonded with it and now it’s number 1! If you can afford/justify the above, it’s well worth it and you’re unlikely to lose much on secondhand purchase/resale!

Uh.. sure. (What is? LOL)

I think I mentioned in the video that of all the Gibsons I bought prior to starting this channel two years ago, only my late 70s Les Paul didn’t have to immediately go to my guy for a full fret level and setup (because someone had it done before I bought it). So in that respect, the recent models (I think everything’s been 2020 or newer) are clearly more consistent in build and playability. Although the truth is, if I were keeping them as personal guitars, most still would need a little more fine tuning. But yeah, you used to be able to depend on a Gibson off the rack (or out of the box) to have way too much relief in the neck and high action to disguise the fact that the fret leveling wasn’t great. Weirdly, this even applied to the one and only Custom Shop model I bought. Plus, in the early 2000s it was super common to find sloppy binding work, uneven finishing, screws driven in at odd angles, etc. Again, from what I’ve seen in the last two years, they’ve cleaned that stuff up for he most part. Of course they’re not perfect and to be honest, never really were in the sense that tooling marks and finish bleed could be found on models from the 60s. Honestly, we didn’t pay as much attention to that stuff back then. You could be right. It might be similar to what happened to the US auto industry when Japan started exporting cars that lasted twice as long as their US made counterparts. I’d like to think it’s less that than simply taking their customer’s complaints seriously, but who knows? Thanks so much for watching and engaging.

Yeah, but the important parts are all there and it costs less. Thanks so much for tuning in.

That's true, I still love it. : )@@leonardgriffieblues5845

First, thanks so much for watching and enjoying my channel. Very much appreciated. Yes, for an old company, Gibson has struggled, under various leadership, to decide what it wants to be. They were once rightly thought of as great innovators, but modern innovation has never worked for them for a variety of reasons. I think they now realize their costumer base doesn’t want innovation, they want the guitars from the 50s. Other companies don’t have that baggage and are free to innovate and do it way better. Yes, the LP I featured this week is nice looking, but it won’t be mine for long. It was bought to feature on the channel, not for a personal guitar. Alas, there are other brands I prefer for the “Gibson thing”, and if I did buy a personal Les Paul, it’d be a goldtop with P90s. Again, thanks for engaging.

I’ll probably get around to reviewing one at some point. Stay tuned.