My poor les paul....

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Back in the 80's I could have bought a new Les Paul for $800. Now a Custom runs $3000 (I was just shopping yesterday for one). I REFUSE to pay it! There is no new guitar that is worth that! The industry is robbing musicians. These things are NOT HAND MADE! One is better off calling the BC Rich, or Gibson custom shop and custom ordering one to be HAND MADE. It really wouldn't cost much more, and in the end would be worth it far more than an assembly line model that doesn't even come from the factory set up right. I played 23 new Les Pauls yesterday, and they were all crap! Not one worth over $1000, yet there was not one priced under $2500. One of the sales guy started getting pissed (I was in the store all day) and said I'm wasting time because they are all the same. I proceeded to tell him he was wasting my time by speaking. I saw one that I really liked, but they wanted $3200 for it, and although I had the money, I refuse to pay it for an assembly line product. I can get a custom made one of a kind for that.

Sorry, I know it's off subject, but I have been searching for a new guitar for over a year and a half now (my Custom made BC Rich Warlock was stolen). It takes a long time to find a really good one, and the way I see the musician getting ripped off is sickening. I really feel bad for the kids in the garage bands that spend their parents hard earned $1000 and come home with a Jackson hunk of shit made outta base wood. (or worse those damn florescent Stevie Vai Model Ibanez with the handle cut out of them....god, remember those awful things? Kids were eating them up at $1400!!! Pure crap!)
k...I'm done venting.

P.S. Keep it in the case, but don't lock it. Lock the room instead! Also, try buying each of the kids their very own guitar. Get them the $100 model. That will keep them from being so curious about yours. It might also teach them to respect an instrument, not to mention all the benefits from being exposed to musical instruments early in life. Each of my kids play (or play with, as the case may be) their own, and never touch any of mine even though they sit right next to theirs (in the case!).
 
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Back in the 80's I could have bought a new Les Paul for $800. Now a Custom runs $3000 (I was just shopping yesterday for one). I REFUSE to pay it!


Imagine if you kept it. it would be double the price? as long as it was a decent instrument...i know, i know, some years were not made in America.
 
metalj said:
light,
the lespaul effect will help for like a week/month, then it wheres off and then its just a guitar that wont help you play better. Ive just seen too many "big spenders" that just couldnt play one song on any guitar.
metalJ

5 years and my Les Paul effect is still kicking. I love that guitar more every time I play it.
 
Hello all:

Had 1981 "cream" LP Custom (oddly enough in 1981). We tumbled down a flight of stairs, only one neck was broken. Glue is a wonderful thing. BTW, the comment about heat and glue is absolutely correct, don't let that pup get too warm or you may end up with a different degree of pitch in the headstock or a headstock hanging from 6 wires. Play on, buy more guitars and play more. Works for me even after 3 decades.
 
metalj said:
hey not to sound like your dad, mom or wife?? but........
2) never keep your guitar worth thousands of dollars on a 10 dollar guitar stand. keep it in its hardshell case LOCKED at all times when not being played.
thats the moral of the story right there
 
Toker41 said:
Back in the 80's I could have bought a new Les Paul for $800. Now a Custom runs $3000 (I was just shopping yesterday for one). I REFUSE to pay it! There is no new guitar that is worth that! The industry is robbing musicians. These things are NOT HAND MADE! One is better off calling the BC Rich, or Gibson custom shop and custom ordering one to be HAND MADE.
Just recently bought a Fender Lite Ash Strat (from the very same Lombard, IL Sam Ash in Nateneal's story btw - small world) for around the $500 range, and I dig it! My price range was not quite $3000 though!! I was willing to spend up to a grand and, after playing a whole bunch of guits, decided to go with this one. Anyway, I was also considering getting a Carvin, but the whole mail-order thing sort of freaked me out. I know you can return it if you're not happy with it, but having never played one, I was just too unsure. But, anyway, my point was that I believe these are custom-made (not hand made though I think) but run very reasonably priced (few 100 beans on either side of a grand) if they're as good as I've heard.... Any experience with these?
 
re: Les paul

- Congrats on getting your LP, now its got a war wound, no big deal, I felt the same way you spoke about, years ago, deciding on the big Les Paul Puuchase - and out of a few nice peices of gear, it allways be my best purchase and favorite ax - enjoy
 
I checked out the ESP Paul copy. For $1300, I have to say I really liked it, but didn't buy it. Though I have thought about it a few times since then, so I might go check it out again. Nice finish, heavy mahogany guitar, set neck, beautiful action, and stock with EMG 81 and 85 (which I would put in a Paul right away anyway). They make a cheaper version under LTD with 24 frets (and I love 24 frets--great idea for a Paul!), but it's not really as nice and has a bolt on neck. I believe that if the $1300 model had 24 frets I might have come home with it. Although it played a little different than a Gibson, it really played and sounded nice.
 
Just got done jammin off the les paul thru my fender blues jr. my ears are ringin the sweet sound of the blues....

rock on and may all les paul necks be protected...
 
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