Custom Shop Les Paul dilemma

RandallFlagg

I am really pleased to have been lucky enough to be able to buy a Custom Shop Les Paul in 2016, it's truly lovely looking, plays exceptionally well and sounds great. But I grab my CS Strat almost every time over it. The Strat is just so comfortable and I love the quieter more refined sound of the single coils. I don't even notice that I'm playing the Strat and really, really love it.

For the first time in a while I got a twinge to shift the LP and get another CS Strat in it's place.

I owned a 2007 R9 and sold that after a year and when I managed to be in a position to buy another CS Historic I told myself that I would never sell again.

Am I mad? Perhaps I need to go listen to Zep's How The West Was Won a few times to stir up the LP love again.

The AV52 Tele doesn't get a lot of air time either lately, it's all Strat!

ICBM

Why would you need two Strats?

RMJ

Pull yourself together man

RandallFlagg

ICBM said:

Why would you need two Strats?

"Need" doesn't come into it does it? It's all about "want"

crunchman

I am wondering about selling my R8 as well.

I do like messing around with that big LP sound at home, but I don't actually use it live much.  I tend to prefer single coils. or a semi-hollow.

If you don't have a semi-hollow, would it be worth trying something like a 335?

RandallFlagg

ICBM said:

Why would you need two Strats?

Then I would have more Strats than @Bridgehouse

Moltisanti

trade the Les Paul for a Custom Shop Tele so you get a closer feel to the strat, the single coil bite AND enough beef to to Jimmy Page all day long.

RandallFlagg

RMJ said:

Pull yourself together man

Who me?

RMJ

RandallFlagg said:

RMJ said:

Pull yourself together man

Who me?

Yes you. Every home needs a Les Paul.

RandallFlagg

RMJ said:

RandallFlagg said:

RMJ said:

Pull yourself together man

Who me?

Yes you. Every home needs a Les Paul.

I daren't pull it anymore it might fall off.

Fretwired

ICBM said:

Why would you need two Strats?

Exactly.

I have five .. you can never have enough Strats .. :-)

Lodious

If there is any doubt, keep it and play it until you either

a) know you don't like it

or

b) like it

CHRISB50

Sell it. Buy a Firebird. 

crunchman

ICBM said:

Why would you need two Strats?

I have one nice US one, and a cheaper Mexican one that isn't quite so precious and I carry in a gig bag on my bike.

Not sure there is any need for 2 really nice ones though.  You would probably still end up playing one more than the other.

I have more guitars than I really need, so I do find that I sometimes go a month or two without playing one of them.  I don't think that's a massive problem though.  If I go 3 or 4 months without playing a guitar, then it's normally a sign I need to sell it.

RandallFlagg

Lodious said:

If there is any doubt, keep it and play it until you either

a) know you don't like it

or

b) like it

I guess

peteri

I don't play my Les Paul much, but would never sell it - they're a nice thing to have, and what they do not many other guitars do and sometimes it's nice to do that.

But I would echo - Tele, really nice match for the strat, and rocks like no other

guitars4you

RandallFlagg said:

Am I mad? Perhaps I need to go listen to Zep's How The West Was Won a few times to stir up the LP love again.

I have 2 good customers who have owned a few LP's and nice versions as well - they buy and then fall out of love with an LP as it does not grab them like another guitar does - Then they sell, but they buy again - I'm in a similar position with regards to a love/hate relationship with an LP  - I think I should own and enjoy an LP, but in reality I find other guitars more comfortable to play, especially when I try to play anything more intricate on them - keep the playing simple and I can handle an LP - As such I own an LP 57 Tom Murphy Historic, but I don't try to play every song on it etc like I might on other guitars - Let it do a job that I'm comfortable with, but don't expect it to be the be all and end all - That way I appreciate what it does for me in a  horses for courses manner

RandallFlagg

CHRISB50 said:

Sell it. Buy a Firebird. 

urrgghh no way. Firebird? firewood more like. Filthy.

crunchman

guitars4you said:

RandallFlagg said:

Am I mad? Perhaps I need to go listen to Zep's How The West Was Won a few times to stir up the LP love again.

I have 2 good customers who have owned a few LP's and nice versions as well - they buy and then fall out of love with an LP as it does not grab them like another guitar does - Then they sell, but they buy again - I'm in a similar position with regards to a love/hate relationship with an LP  - I think I should own and enjoy an LP, but in reality I find other guitars more comfortable to play, especially when I try to play anything more intricate on them - keep the playing simple and I can handle an LP - As such I own an LP 57 Tom Murphy Historic, but I don't try to play every song on it etc like I might on other guitars - Let it do a job that I'm comfortable with, but don't expect it to be the be all and end all - That way I appreciate what it does for me in a  horses for courses manner

@guitars4you what did you do with the "Les Paul" by he who must not be named?

proggy

You're not mad by any stretch - just a Strat lover. Get another Strat if that's what you want, Ive got more than one Tele.

Maybe try a Les Paul with P90s.

RandallFlagg

guitars4you said:

RandallFlagg said:

Am I mad? Perhaps I need to go listen to Zep's How The West Was Won a few times to stir up the LP love again.

I have 2 good customers who have owned a few LP's and nice versions as well - they buy and then fall out of love with an LP as it does not grab them like another guitar does - Then they sell, but they buy again - I'm in a similar position with regards to a love/hate relationship with an LP  - I think I should own and enjoy an LP, but in reality I find other guitars more comfortable to play, especially when I try to play anything more intricate on them - keep the playing simple and I can handle an LP - As such I own an LP 57 Tom Murphy Historic, but I don't try to play every song on it etc like I might on other guitars - Let it do a job that I'm comfortable with, but don't expect it to be the be all and end all - That way I appreciate what it does for me in a  horses for courses manner

I think you've nailed it. You're right I feel I can play anything on a Strat and love how hard I can physically play it, the LP with it's shorter scale need's gentler touch and doesn't lend itself so much to some styles.