NGD: New Gibson Day!

not_the_dj

The 2013 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro II...and blimey it's lovely. 

This is the Iced Tea with 60s neck, dead comfy and similar in feel to the neck on my '99 Smartwood and Jnr. I was looking at the regular Trad but the 50s neck is a bit of a handful.

Only played it through my Yamaha THR10 so far, and it sounds fantastic. The coil split sounds are definitely usable and the inbuilt boost is pretty cool (but I reckon I'll stick to pedal boosts). 

Full band practice tonight so I'll be cranking it up!

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chrisj1602

Very nice.

jaygtr

I really like that

RocknRollDave

They even personalised it for you with a wee picture of you on the tuner peg!

VimFuego

sweet lester.

SimpleSimon

Sweet! Congrats, i love Iced Tea Lesters...!!

raulduke

Lovely guitar.

I love my 90's LP studio. Its a beast.

Dave_Mc

Nice

Iamnobody

Congrats - what colour is the back and neck? My cherry burst is obviously cherry on the back but I prefer the brown mahogany which I presume your Ice Tea has.

I'm currently debating whether to have a NGD and get the similar spec 335 in the other thread...

Moltisanti

from everything i've read the Gibson stuff coming out recently is aboslutely top drawer, which is ace, they are after all the daddies

Phil_aka_Pip

Good GAS

ESchap

Very nice LP

mudslide73

That's doing it for me. Very nice indeed.

Bellycaster

Gorgeous, Congrats!

Deijavoo

How was the coil tap cranked tonight?

monquixote

That looks very tasty. 

I'd put spam cans on the pickups and take the pickguard off!

John_P

Lovely!!!   Very nice GAS -   I hope it plays and sounds as good with the band

ESBlonde

That does it for me. Very nice.

Hertz32

I'm GASing for one of these so badly already Really REALLY want one in the Vintage sunburst, sadly not in the UK though... Good guitar mate, how she sounds as good as she looks! 

not_the_dj

Well that was a lot of fun!

So happy with it. Sounds fantastic, and the coil split is great, one of my favourite sounds is both pick-ups split and the selector on the mid position. Great clean sound with that.

You do get a slight volume drop when split, but I expected that, and the inbuilt boost can be used to compensate, but for the set we went through tonight it all fitted great. If anything I've got too many options (various drives and boosts on my pedal board). 

The neck feels great, the satin back to it is really nice to play (the back and neck are reddish so must be cherry @Iamnobody). ;

I'm dead happy, it looks fantastic and does everything and more that I wanted out of a 'proper' Les Paul (if indeed you can have a proper Les Paul that takes a 9v battery!). 

However I do need to get a padded/wider strap. I've not weighed it but it's heavy than anything else I've got. 

Deadman

Shit the bed that's gorgeous.