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What are the differences (or similarities) in the Les Paul Standard, Custom, Classic models? Is one considered "better"?
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Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
What are the differences (or similarities) in the Les Paul Standard, Custom, Classic models? Is one considered "better"?I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling. -
Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Okay....lemme see if I can add some help here.
Les Paul Custom: Usually gold hardware, mahogany body/maple top, square/rectangular inlays on Ebony board, diamond shaped inlay on headstock, bound front/back/neck/headstock.
Les Paul Standard: Mahogany body/maple top, trapazoidal inlays on rosewood fingerboard, bound front/back/neck (? on headstock??), no inlay on headstock, just signature.
Les Paul Classic: Same as standard, but has the 60's slim profile neck and different pups.
One Les Paul is really no better than the next model, just different. A standard sounds totally different than a Custom, I think largely due to the fingerboard material.
The Classic's, I think, are great sounding guitars, with a great neck profile.
If I ever buy another Les Paul, it will be a Classic Gold Top [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img]Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Okay....lemme see if I can add some help here.
Les Paul Custom: Usually gold hardware, mahogany body/maple top, square/rectangular inlays on Ebony board, diamond shaped inlay on headstock, bound front/back/neck/headstock.
Les Paul Standard: Mahogany body/maple top, trapazoidal inlays on rosewood fingerboard, bound front/back/neck (? on headstock??), no inlay on headstock, just signature.
Les Paul Classic: Same as standard, but has the 60's slim profile neck and different pups.
One Les Paul is really no better than the next model, just different. A standard sounds totally different than a Custom, I think largely due to the fingerboard material.
The Classic's, I think, are great sounding guitars, with a great neck profile.
If I ever buy another Les Paul, it will be a Classic Gold Top [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img]Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Thank you, sir. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I think I eventually want a Les Paul, but just doing some research on some different models for now.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Thank you, sir. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] I think I eventually want a Les Paul, but just doing some research on some different models for now.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
No prob Toejam:
[img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img] The only drawback with a Les Paul is the fucking weight of them!! [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img]
After doing a gig with one, you are wrecked!
As to the good points, they play and sound incredible. Nothing really sounds like a Les Paul IMO....I think that has to do with the set-neck and the body materials, along with the fingerboard type.
Customs sound "in your face" bright with a great lead sound that cuts through, Standards are a little more subdued with a lower high frequency response...I think because the rosewood absorbs some of them.......just my theory.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
No prob Toejam:
[img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img] The only drawback with a Les Paul is the fucking weight of them!! [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img]
After doing a gig with one, you are wrecked!
As to the good points, they play and sound incredible. Nothing really sounds like a Les Paul IMO....I think that has to do with the set-neck and the body materials, along with the fingerboard type.
Customs sound "in your face" bright with a great lead sound that cuts through, Standards are a little more subdued with a lower high frequency response...I think because the rosewood absorbs some of them.......just my theory.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Do they all weigh about the same or is a certain model a little lighter? Or does it just vary from one to another? I know there were Custom Lites and Studio Lites, but I'm just wondering about the regular models.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Do they all weigh about the same or is a certain model a little lighter? Or does it just vary from one to another? I know there were Custom Lites and Studio Lites, but I'm just wondering about the regular models.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
I dunno....the only Les Paul I have ever played is mine.
Some of my buddies back home in Maine have Standards and Classic's, but I haven't seen another Custom here in NC since I've been here since 96'.
I think they all, for the most part, are comparable in weight.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
I dunno....the only Les Paul I have ever played is mine.
Some of my buddies back home in Maine have Standards and Classic's, but I haven't seen another Custom here in NC since I've been here since 96'.
I think they all, for the most part, are comparable in weight.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Okay, thanks. I guess I'll have to go out soon and try some more, since I haven't played one in awhile. My cousin's friend has one I played for a little bit last year, I can't remember what model exactly, but I don't remember it being that heavy for some reason. Years before that a friend had one, but I don't really remember that one either.
Where in NC are you, BTW? I've got an aunt and uncle and a couple cousins who have been in Greensboro for about 10 years or so now since they moved from NJ.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
Okay, thanks. I guess I'll have to go out soon and try some more, since I haven't played one in awhile. My cousin's friend has one I played for a little bit last year, I can't remember what model exactly, but I don't remember it being that heavy for some reason. Years before that a friend had one, but I don't really remember that one either.
Where in NC are you, BTW? I've got an aunt and uncle and a couple cousins who have been in Greensboro for about 10 years or so now since they moved from NJ.I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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Re: Comparing Les Paul Standard, Custom and Classic
My Les Pauls.
J/K
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