I have to say, the used 2011 les paul traditional i recently bought is about as fine a guitar as I've ever owned. I can't find any fit and finish flaws. The fret work is awesome...I tightened the truss and lowered the action so low it was unbelievable. Not a dead note anywhere. It was actually too low and I raised it back up a little. I've never had a guitar, even a brand new one, that you could do that on without a fret level and crown. It sounds incredible, but the pickups and pots were changed to Dubabo PAF clones and the pots and caps were changed out for cts pots and oil filled caps.
To be fair, it's a used guitar and could have had the frets leveled and crowned so.ewhere along the line but I don't think so.
I've owned several gibson les pauls and a couple of late 70's Japanese Les paul copies.
I don't see how someone could ask for a better Les Paul than this Traditional