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After seeing the post about the old guitar for the practiing musician magazine, I dug all of my old ones out. While flipping through one of them I came across an add that had Kingdom Come in it boasting about how great the new Les Paul Lite was. What ever happened to the skinny Les Paul? I never see them used in stores, pawn shops, and I don't believe I've seen one on the bay for quite some time. Have they become collector pieces?
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Les Paul-Lite
After seeing the post about the old guitar for the practiing musician magazine, I dug all of my old ones out. While flipping through one of them I came across an add that had Kingdom Come in it boasting about how great the new Les Paul Lite was. What ever happened to the skinny Les Paul? I never see them used in stores, pawn shops, and I don't believe I've seen one on the bay for quite some time. Have they become collector pieces? -
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les paul lite = tone lightweight imo.Comment
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les paul lite = tone lightweight imo.Comment
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The Custom Lite was the best of the bunch though.
Wish I had not sold it for an Ovation.
Does Jackson make a color that is comprable to the metallic pink used on the LPC Lite?Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.Comment
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The Custom Lite was the best of the bunch though.
Wish I had not sold it for an Ovation.
Does Jackson make a color that is comprable to the metallic pink used on the LPC Lite?Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.Comment
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I've always wanted a blue Studio Lite like that! [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] They also made them in red with gold hardware, black, maybe white. They had the mahogany routed out of the back and a lightweight chromyte (a different form of mahogany maybe?) was put in. There was also a version that had a middle single coil pickup and MIII electronics from the old Gibson MIII model. The original Custom Lite models were pink and I think they had only three knobs with a little extra toggle switch, I believe there were some made in black, too.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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I've always wanted a blue Studio Lite like that! [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] They also made them in red with gold hardware, black, maybe white. They had the mahogany routed out of the back and a lightweight chromyte (a different form of mahogany maybe?) was put in. There was also a version that had a middle single coil pickup and MIII electronics from the old Gibson MIII model. The original Custom Lite models were pink and I think they had only three knobs with a little extra toggle switch, I believe there were some made in black, too.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Chromyte is balsa wood. You know, those little rubber-band powered airplanes?
NewcI want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Chromyte is balsa wood. You know, those little rubber-band powered airplanes?
NewcI want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
My Blog: http://newcenstein.comComment
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I had a Custom Lite, and I'm kicking myself in the a$$ now for ever selling it. Mine was a freakin rare black beauty too!...most you'll find are that ugly metallic coral pinkish color....but there's even a few cherry sunbursts floating around too.
I had a Studio lite too for a very short time...nice Pauls...mine was trans amber with black hardware.Comment
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I had a Custom Lite, and I'm kicking myself in the a$$ now for ever selling it. Mine was a freakin rare black beauty too!...most you'll find are that ugly metallic coral pinkish color....but there's even a few cherry sunbursts floating around too.
I had a Studio lite too for a very short time...nice Pauls...mine was trans amber with black hardware.Comment
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Didn`t some of them have Ebony boards? Jack.Comment
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I have the blue one as pictured from gbase, but mine shows a lot more of the wood grain thru the translucent blue. Excellent guitar that listed for $1300 and I got for $850 new. I don't like Paul's with pickguards and I don't like chrome hardware, and I love ebony fingerboards, so this one fit the bill! Newc is correct, filled with balsa wood. They take a normal mahogany rear section, then carve out pockets and fill with the balsa, then put the maple cap over that. Because of this, the guitar is normal LP thickness, not the thinness of the earlier 'pink' lites, but less weight than normal Paul. I don't notice any lack of tone or sustain. The pickups in these had more output than a normal LP standard or custom. The only problem I had was with intonation, could never get it to sound good open and fretted until I invested $25 for the Earvana nut and installed it in a half-hour. This fixed it! (Highly recommend for anyone with a LP and intonation problems!).
http://www.earvana.com/how.htmlComment
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Didn`t some of them have Ebony boards? Jack.Comment
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