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Darn Les Paul! Guitarist Mag Article
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Author:  Richard Hawley [ Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:30 pm ]
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I've got a standard Les Paul and you could throw it out of a moving car on the M1 and it'd still be in tune.....the LP es295 is a beautiful guitar and one I love but it's definitely got its issues

Author:  The Demon [ Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:21 pm ]
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Here's the wee minx that is turning my head. She is a 2002 custom shop R8 so has a fat "50's style" neck like the LP295 that I really much prefer to the slimmer ones, i seem to like em chunky (fnar fnar).

Previous owner has put 50's style wiring in her, a tonepros locking bridge and some rather lovely sounding Bareknuckle Stormy Monday pickups. She's been well played, a good sign I reckon, so has all her edges all nicely rounded in. The fretboard is so dark and smooth and she growls like a goodun. Yummy

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Author:  carlh [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:41 pm ]
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the locking tuners are the way to go. it should be steady as a rock then. the r8 looks lovely. I have the hands of a small child, so i could never manage those big necks. the r9 are a little bit slimmer but still quite chunky. A friend of mine has an r7 goldtop. the neck is like a baseball bat which he loves because he has hands like shovels. Any of those bareknuckle pickups i've heard sound fantastic.

Author:  The Demon [ Thu Mar 24, 2016 3:48 pm ]
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Ive gone and done it, ive traded the LP295 for this one. Im a little sad but after a week with the R8 ill play it much, much more as it stays in bloody tune!!

Ive got small mits too Carl but seem to prefer fatter necks. I play a nocaster a lot which has a ridiculous U shaped baseball bat neck. I stayed clear of big necks for years as i thought id not get on with them but after trying a few found i much prefer them chunky. Think its my sloppy thumb over the top technique that makes it possible!

I concur with the Bareknuckle pups, ive got a set of Abraxas hummers in an old epi sheraton and they are brill, a bit hot but really cutting.

Happy playing!!

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