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Re: Les Paul-Lite
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.html
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.html
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