PSA - 2015 Les Paul Traditional £1333

mort

Don't know why they have these in stock (perhaps there's only 1?)

DV247 Romford

https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Gibson-Les-Paul-Traditional-2015-Heritage-Cherry-Sunburst-Japan-Limited-Edition/art-GIT0042561-000

crunchman

Japanese not US.  Not sure the price is all that.  Might be a better made guitar though.

mort

crunchman said:

Japanese not US.  Not sure the price is all that.  Might be a better made guitar though.

I thought it was built for the Japanese market, not built in Japan?

I think this is US made?

Philtre

"An innovative G-Force Tuning system"...

Whitecat

mort said:

crunchman said:

Japanese not US.  Not sure the price is all that.  Might be a better made guitar though.

I thought it was built for the Japanese market, not built in Japan?

I think this is US made?

^^ this. And it doesn’t have all the 2015 nonsense on it because the Japanese do not tolerate that kind of silliness.

Edit: clicked through and it does have all that junk on it. Thought they had done a run for Japan that was clean of robotuners - I guess this wasn’t part of that one. 

FarleyUK

There's a 2017 Traditional for sale at £1,100 in the classifieds.... just saying

iseverynamegone

And they were , what,  £800 new in the blow outs? 

Looks standard nut and board though? And not the huge baseball bat of a neck the 2015 trads had.  

darhart

Lovely guitars, limited run USA made for the Japanese market. These don't have the extra wide necks nor the zero nut or the hologram, and they have the normal Les Paul logo. The only nod to the 2015 range are the tuners which are a 10 minute job to swap (if you don't like em). AAA flamed maple cap, low density mahogany body and 59 pickups. Really not that far off an R9/R0 for Studio money (imo). 

Yes I bought one

mort

darhart said:

Lovely guitars, limited run USA made for the Japanese market. These don't have the extra wide necks nor the zero nut or the hologram, and they have the normal Les Paul logo. The only nod to the 2015 range are the tuners which are a 10 minute job to swap (if you don't like em). AAA flamed maple cap, low density mahogany body and 59 pickups. Really not that far off an R9/R0 for Studio money (imo). 

Yes I bought one

Looking forward to a NGD post with pics soon.......nice one!

darhart

Here it is, not the greatest pic just a phone snap, but you get the idea, my daughter likes it!!
http://i.imgur.com/NXuTWIH.jpg

tony99

pickups are " '59 tribute humbuckers", any good?

mort

Very nice! I see you got a “proper” case as well. Are you keeping the tuners?

darhart

tony99 said:

pickups are " '59 tribute humbuckers", any good?

Yes I like em, clear and rich, no too hot. I'll compare them to the 57s when I get the chance

terada

That looks superb mate

darhart

mort said:

Very nice! I see you got a “proper” case as well. Are you keeping the tuners?

I haven't decided yet, I've a few with the gforce tuners and personally don't have a problem with them, I am tempted to change them though just to keep it more traditional? If so Grover or Kluson? 

darhart

terada said:

That looks superb mate

Cheers