Show your Les Pauls and similar styled guitars! Can be any brand

[Gergo]

1978 Gibson Les Paul Standard, 1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic

1989 Orville by Gibson Custom, 1977 Greco EG 950

2014 Epiphone Lee Malia signature, 2015 Epiphone 100th Anniversary Custom

[mickey]

Hummm. I don't have any. I used to but I never really liked them compared to other styles of guitar.

[Gear_Junky]

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[Gear_Junky]

Found some old pics, this guitar later grew a no-name Bigsby (Fakesby). It's been at a friend's for a few years, so I can't recall all the details from memory (I lost a bunch of files to a nasty ransomware). IIRC I put in proper cream pickup rings and pickguard instead of that weird pinkish color. This guitar IMHO is very similar to the old SX GG1 (now Callisto) and most likely made at the same plant.

[mark_morton]

Bump for block inlays!

[dabbler]

[rrobbone]

This is the only one I have right now, and it's pissing me off.

I'm still having electrical issues with it. No output in several of the positions. I'm thinking it's a problem with the Triple Shots, so I'm gonna pull them out next time I'm doing guitar maintenance. When will I learn to keep things simple.

[Razzle]

1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe


1993 Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus Purple


1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio Gem Amethyst (soon to be sold)


2011 Gibson Les Paul Classic Premium Plus Amber


2006 Gibson Les Paul Goddess Violet Purple Burst


2013 Agile AL-3200 Purple Quilt


2017Agile AL-3100MCC Lemon Burst

[nomadh]

Les Paul's are traditionally the prettiest guitars with the most amazing grain and colors. Fenders seem to be more suited to looking like work tools. Sometimes it seems a tele can look ok as a fancy model. I think it's supposed to be ironic. For some reason a strat doesn't seem right in anything fancier than natural ash. Some of the warmoth strata here seem to be bucking that trend.

[Gear_Junky]

Les Paul's are traditionally the prettiest guitars with the most amazing grain and colors. Fenders seem to be more suited to looking like work tools. Sometimes it seems a tele can look ok as a fancy model. I think it's supposed to be ironic. For some reason a strat doesn't seem right in anything fancier than natural ash. Some of the warmoth strata here seem to be bucking that trend.

I agree with this. As a youth I thought that strats are the quintessential electric guitar look. And LP's seemed too traditional to me. Too much like just a guitar. And within only a few years after that I had a new appreciation for them - yes, they are MEANT to look like an acoustic guitar, a Gibson acoustic guitar, that same aesthetic, but in a solidbody electric. That is timeless.

And I agree, Leo's designs do look like prototypes or tools, but the shapes were so crazy and futuristic at the time, they became timeless that way. I like vintage tinted maple necks/headstocks on Fenders and that looks luxurious on its own. As for adornments, some models like the Jazz bass and Jazzmasters/Jaguars can look cool with block inlays and bound necks. Other than that, there's really just no need. The fanciest thing I like on all of those is a pearloid pickguard - it helps break with that "prototype" look.

P.S. And I also happen to think that gold hardware doesn't usually work on Fender designs

[DonM]

[slowhand84]

1978 Gibson Les Paul Standard, 1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic

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1989 Orville by Gibson Custom, 1977 Greco EG 950

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2014 Epiphone Lee Malia signature, 2015 Epiphone 100th Anniversary Custom

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Just two for me, as I'm not a huge LP fan:

AL3100 Silverburst - Bareknuckle Stormy Monday/Seymour Duncan JB pickups; Gotoh Japan bridge, refretted with stainless steel frets by previous owner. Still to this day the very best bang for your buck I have ever gotten with an LP at $240 shipped w/hardshell case ($320 total if you count the Bareknuckle neck pup).







AL3200 Custom Shop - Bareknuckle Warpigs in this one, custom ordered (by someone else) from Agile with no binding, MOP blocks, and a killer finish. This one is currently for sale, as I've found I have no need for 2 LPs.

[dearlpitts]

Les Paul's are traditionally the prettiest guitars with the most amazing grain and colors. Fenders seem to be more suited to looking like work tools. Sometimes it seems a tele can look ok as a fancy model. I think it's supposed to be ironic. For some reason a strat doesn't seem right in anything fancier than natural ash. Some of the warmoth strata here seem to be bucking that trend.

Ya but when you hold a strat and look at the curves, pretty hot.

[honyock]

Placeholder since I can't find my pictures after doing a clean install of Windows. Need to figure out which drive my pics got stuck.

[Gear_Junky]

I just realized: posting a thread asking for photos of LP-style guitars at a forum like AGF is bound to create a black hole or some sort of a worm hole once critical mass is achieved

[Partscaster]

all my pics disappeared with a dead laptop. I might learn to use backup storage someday. I will try to take some pics for here, too. My 4 AL's are gone, though. No pics will I find, unless I put on waders and sludge through the old forum.

[nomadh]

Found some old pics, this guitar later grew a no-name Bigsby (Fakesby). It's been at a friend's for a few years, so I can't recall all the details from memory (I lost a bunch of files to a nasty ransomware). IIRC I put in proper cream pickup rings and pickguard instead of that weird pinkish color. This guitar IMHO is very similar to the old SX GG1 (now Callisto) and most likely made at the same plant.

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The back on that is also nice. Looks like nice aged plain nitro. Completely different from the typical agile redwash I really am learning to hate.

[nomadh]

Les Paul's are traditionally the prettiest guitars with the most amazing grain and colors. Fenders seem to be more suited to looking like work tools. Sometimes it seems a tele can look ok as a fancy model. I think it's supposed to be ironic. For some reason a strat doesn't seem right in anything fancier than natural ash. Some of the warmoth strata here seem to be bucking that trend.

Ya but when you hold a strat and look at the curves, pretty hot.

Maybe that's it. The strat has all its exotic look in the shape so a flame top gets too busy maybe? My guess is it's all just tradition. If fender was making flametop strats the last 10 years it would be expected. For the price fender usa charges they may have to.

[Gear_Junky]

The back on that is also nice. Looks like nice aged plain nitro. Completely different from the typical agile redwash I really am learning to hate.

It does look nice but definitely polyurethane and I'm sure it's very thick. Very handsome grain on that mahogany, one of the things that sold me on it, despite the very mild figuring on the maple top and it being slightly blurry. It was the last guitar at the store and something like $180 or so, maybe even less as I'm a haggler, I just don't remember. And I didn't know about Rondo at the time (this was early 2000's I think). Sam Ash used to be full of decent "Brownsville" and "Carlo Robelli" copies of various "second mortgage guitars", but I think they were eventually forced to stop.

[Gergo]

1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe


1993 Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus Purple


1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio Gem Amethyst (soon to be sold)


2011 Gibson Les Paul Classic Premium Plus Amber


2006 Gibson Les Paul Goddess Violet Purple Burst


2013 Agile AL-3200 Purple Quilt


2017Agile AL-3100MCC Lemon Burst

Let me know if you ever want to sell that Deluxe, dude.

[Spike]

I'll start with the two "still have". Pelham Blue Trad Pro and the Reverend Roundhouse 290.

On to the "don't have".

[Spike]

And since we can only upload 5 pics per post, continued.

[mkgearhead]

I have a couple.....

[mkgearhead]

And a few more.

[glasshand]