LP FADED DOUBLE-CUT

They aren't in stock, like, anywhere. Where can I find one?

As in a Les Paul Jr double cut? EDIT looked it up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2015-Gibson-Les-Paul-Special-Double-Cut-Guitar-TV-Yellow-w-Gibson-Case-/232265268890?hash=item361416be9a

Lighthouse sound get close for cheap

Yeah lol thanks

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Ooh. Thanks a lot, I'm on a school device so I can't check eBay.

$1233 US in Japan. It is a les paul special faded double cut in yellow.

jesus. the actual thing is like $700.

I had one, gift from my dad when my band looked poised to snag a national tour.... but then wound up in a legal battle with our manager instead. I think it was $800ish new. Sold it reluctantly, however, it did develop problems. Apart from losing most of the tv yellow on the upper bout and neck the fretbaord was not well dried in the kiln and despite an amount of conditioning I enver gave another guitar before or since it shrunk and caused me to constantly have to redress the frets until I stopped using it on the road. The cheap mdoels get the rush job woods and sadly that makes them sketchy road guitars for bands going far enough afield that their isntruments endure tons of climate changes and even tempa dn humidity changes from van to venue....

I think I got $500 for it when I HAD to sell it in a hurry, GC shafted me. With a case I would say one that's well maintained, mostly used at home should be worth 600 to 700. I give the 700 for TV yellow, the rarer color.... and cooler. I would just as soon look at a single cut junior at this price range. Or an SG Classic, very similar, much better build. You even get binding. The recent DCs (jr and special) with gloss finish but w/o the pickguard regularly goes for well under 1k because they have robot tuners and people ahte them, but they are easily removed and replaced with grovers or tonepros which will erpform better than stock Gibson 'deluxe' kluson style. You can buy a pickgiuard and frankly black is not half as cool as celluloid tort shell or acrylic tort/swirl on these guitars. Any P90 guitar will need to be heavily shielded for lvie use. Even ebfore smart phones mine needed heavy shielding and I would hesitate to gig with P90s today because they just soak up the iPhone RFI and spit it out at music-volume.... its not like the 60 cycle RFI hum of my youth, its brutal.

yeah, one of my favorite bands had the same few issues. the to half of the guitar lost all its paint.

but the P90s sound so goooooooooooooood

they're okay... Iw as really enamored of them for awhile. It really depends on the amp you use how distinct they sound from a humbucker. I found they stood out most through marshall 18 and 20 watt models. They stood out through a vox, tny terror or matchless, but it wasn't THAT flattering to them to my ear. ABed in the studio against an ac15 the Marshalls schooled it for P90 tones in the room and during playback, but I digress. Not so distinctive through a superlead, blackface fender or even a tweed deluxe. But yeah, if I eneded a Gibson doublecut with P90s I would buy an SG classic or gloss finish Junior not a faded LP special or jr.I really don't miss P90s though. They're mushier than a stple pickup or dearmond 'dynaonic' but pretty much have a similar response to those polepiece magnet types, just not as clear or punchy because of the bar magnet... and a low output, original spec bucker with properly matched coils like the old T-Tops or a Duncan Seth Lover is very very close to the P90 sound side by side. Seth did a great job of getting rid of the hum while keeping the basic sound of the popular P90 with his original design. Particularly close without a cover. All the overwound, large bobbin singles are nightmare at shows since the iPhone came out. just awful. Studio only! None of the hum cancelling P90s I've tried are right, the T-Top is closer to my ear for the kidna sounds I have always been after from a P90. But YMMV

i ran this guitar through a tiny terror and a DS-1 one time, at a friends, and it sounded like grunge heaven.

why would you want a DS1 out front of a tiny terror? I'm not really thinking 15 watt amp or el84s for 'grunge' heaven.... a lot of those seattle bands didn't even give a shit what they played through anyway, its not really about that for like the guys from TAD or the Melvins... I think Buzzo cares what he plays now but he used to just buy those solid state sunn heads because they were super cheap but super reliable and super loud... you didn't really see a lot of P90s in the 90s despite the name.... I think it was already the millennia when the guys from eparl jam started embracing the LP Jr, not that they were ever particularly grungey other than their hair and flannel shirts. I am usually thinking green river, mudhoney, tad, maybe early soundgarden when someone says grunge. But I was a teenager for that whole thing and I think maybe I have a different perspective than someone whow asn't born until the 90s, its not historical for me yet. Its past but it seems recent... but yeah, P90s, try some old humbuckers too before you go singing the uniqueness of the P90. The bridge P90 and a bridge T-top are not far off. The P90 will be a little more open and extended in the low lows and the highs can get a little more razorbladey under pedal distortion or with a CRANKED marshall superlead. But tis apples and apples or at least apples and pears.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2015-Gibson-Les-Paul-Special-Double-Cut-Guitar-TV-Yellow-w-Gibson-Case-/232265268890?hash=item361416be9a

Lighthouse sound get close for cheap

I'm always tempted to get one of these and have a celluloid or acrylic tort pickguard made for it.... I could even get the robot one and change tuners myself (I have a bucket of Gibson deluxe tuners I kept every time I would put grovers on someone's LP for them) so the savings on the used robot LP special might be the way to go for me. But wow, 800 bucks for a new TV yellow Special with grovers already installed? not bad, man. I wish it had all 4 controls, but hey, you seldom wanna blend the P90s together, the middle position isn't anything to write home about to my ear unlike a standard with PAF copies where interesting shit happens when you mix those pickup knobs at different levels.

I worked three days a week in a music store in '89 - '91. The boss went to visit distributors to order stock in our capital city every Wednesday from midday, leaving me to finish the day and lock up.

I used to take this chance to play every instrument and every pedal, every amp and every bit of gear I could between serving customers.... which were minimal on a Wednesday afternoon.

The store got a Gibson Les Paul Jr in. I think it was a Tobacco burst. Second hand in great condition, he has a price of $499 on it. I plugged it into every amp in the shop and couldn't get a bad tone. I slapped on a Tubescreamer (TS10) and fell in love with that sound. I knew I needed that guitar. I went in on my next shift to tell my boss I wanted it (I had open ended layaway plans - an awesome perk). Guitar was sold the day before.

its funny you liked the Jr so much, your taste seems so far from that with all the fenders and fender-alikes

Jrs are nice too. They're fun to play.

The new humbuckers definitely don't do it for me. I find single coil pickups much punchier.

It is lighter than my old band mate's Les... that haulage ain't for me. There was something about the simplicity of that old guitar that just grabbed me. There is room in my collection for something along those lines and a Sheraton or 335, and something Rick or Gretsch.

there are so many versions of a single or humbucker that you are making a ridiculous generalization... I used to like 'the clarity of single coils' but I just hadn't heard enough pickups yet! I was pigheaded about humbuckers until I tried a friend's 61 SG reissue (believe it or not he won a GC drawing for it in a contest sponsored by the band wolfmorther, LOL). That changed my tune a little and I started to branch out accepting that none of the gibsons I owned had humbuckers I liked in them but that there were definitely buckers I like out there and that there are definitely singles that sound like dogshit for me.

Play more guitars, more expensive guitars...

I like to call a Jr a 'caveman guitar'