Rant warning: Chambered Les Pauls?

[Scott Fraser]

That guitar should be free to anybody risking the humiliation of being seen carting it between the Guitar Center & the trunk of your car. Then with a $300 sanding & new paint job you might have a very decent guitar. If you can put the memory of that image out of your mind.

[02R96]

Yup, nothing that some 80 grit paper and an orbital sander can't take care of in a minute or two...

[RLHofer]

I bought a chambered/lightened Les Paul because I could afford it($849)... 60's Tribute model. I'd never owned a Gibson before, much less a Les Paul. So, being unfamiliar with the sustain attainable with a 100% solid body(other than needed for wiring, etc), I am ignorant of what I'm missing. Ignorance CAN be bliss. It's all relative; I now play a Gibson Les Paul. Now, the whole idea of aging a brand new guitar... heresy. Aging should ONLY come with age, like the lines in our faces. You want the look? Do the time.

[Caevan O’Shite]

I bought a chambered/lightened Les Paul because I could afford it($849)... 60's Tribute model. I'd never owned a Gibson before, much less a Les Paul. So, being unfamiliar with the sustain attainable with a 100% solid body(other than needed for wiring, etc), I am ignorant of what I'm missing. Ignorance CAN be bliss. It's all relative; I now play a Gibson Les Paul.

 

You're probably not missing anything.