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Les Paul Special copy
This is one of the guitars distributed by the GFS company-it's a XV-440 that is a nice Les Paul Special clone. Originally I had my eye on one of their Les Paul Jr. copies but when I saw the Special it changed my mind. The Junior would have had a single P-90 and the wrap-around tailpiece/bridge-I imagined that the intonation would be less than ideal...
The Special is similar to the Les Pauls from the late 1950s before they turned to the double cutaway body. It has 2 P-90 soapbar p'ups and a tuneomatic bridge with the stopbar tailpiece. It has a mahogney neck and body-set neck-and a nice maple veneer on the guitar top for a bit more high end.
The neck is thinner that my other Les Pauls, but it plays like butter. The strings on it were too light and of lousy quality-9s-after an hours playing time I had replaced them. After a string change it was a whole different guitar. And the bridge p'up was installed crooked and I had to reset it in the slot-another simple adjustment that greatly improved playability.
After these minor changes this is my favorite guitar these days, the 2 P-90 p'ups sound so fine in the middle position-and like any other P-90 they go from chimey to mayhem with a bit of gain and how you attack the strings.
It's a damned good guitar for low bucks!
This is one of the guitars distributed by the GFS company-it's a XV-440 that is a nice Les Paul Special clone. Originally I had my eye on one of their Les Paul Jr. copies but when I saw the Special it changed my mind. The Junior would have had a single P-90 and the wrap-around tailpiece/bridge-I imagined that the intonation would be less than ideal...
The Special is similar to the Les Pauls from the late 1950s before they turned to the double cutaway body. It has 2 P-90 soapbar p'ups and a tuneomatic bridge with the stopbar tailpiece. It has a mahogney neck and body-set neck-and a nice maple veneer on the guitar top for a bit more high end.
The neck is thinner that my other Les Pauls, but it plays like butter. The strings on it were too light and of lousy quality-9s-after an hours playing time I had replaced them. After a string change it was a whole different guitar. And the bridge p'up was installed crooked and I had to reset it in the slot-another simple adjustment that greatly improved playability.
After these minor changes this is my favorite guitar these days, the 2 P-90 p'ups sound so fine in the middle position-and like any other P-90 they go from chimey to mayhem with a bit of gain and how you attack the strings.
It's a damned good guitar for low bucks!
