My friend just bought one of these

[ido1957]

He traded an SG for it. I played it for a couple hours on Saturday. Definitely rocks and has several tones/modes/sounds with all the pickup switching. The neck was pretty comfortable and the granadillo fretboard was fine.

Gibson.com: Gibson USA Les Paul Studio

 

[Greg_L]

Sweet!

 

[aaronmcoleman]

Rad! I never really bonded with Les Pauls, but they are gorgeous, and others can get some really nice sounds from them.

 

[andrew_s]

Gibson Studio is and (i think) always will be best alternative to Custom models. For that price it's hard to find something similar. You can't go wrong with the studio Gibson