Gibson Les Paul Junior Electric Guitar  

Bare bones minimum, but how much do you really need, as long as you have other guitars with other sounds this one is nice to have in the arsenel!

Honestly for eight bills its way over priced the quality is good but its too much cash for a satin finished guitar, satin is just a nice word for CHEAPER MODEL!

Decent build quality, great P90 sounds, over priced!

Gibson made a few models of this guitar, the satin version and the full nitro laquer finish. I was lucky enough to find a full nitro tobacco  finish at MF on sale for six bills so with that it came home with me. I would NOT pay six  bills for the satin model, as they  will show up used in a few months for much cheaper on MF used gear. If you can find the full nitro finish models go for it, that is a way cool guitar that actually has some real value for the money!

I gave it a "7" for features, because there aren't really that many - but what's there is all you need.

Solid as a rock. You could probably drop this thing, and it would still be in tune.

I have to say mine was a fantastic value, because i got it as "Used"  for less than the regular price. It was listed as being in "C" condition, but being as a guitar such as this is made to be a workhorse anyway, that didn't matter to me. As it turned out, I had to really look hard to find what relagated it to a "C". Turns out there was a fingertip-sized ding on the lower body, that my strap covers anyway.

I've wanted a single-cut Junior for years, now I finally have one. I've played it through a variety of amps, and the sound never disappoints. The P-90 snarls with plenty of guts, and when I need less bite, I just roll the tone knob back. This is my seventh Les Paul; and although the simplest by far, it has become my favorite. You just cant beat the tone that the combination of a slab of mahogany and a P-90 produce. And besides, it really looks cool on stage.

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The Les paul jr has a satin finish, the sunburst model has a painted black backing and neck whereby you cannot evaluate the eood grain. The single P90 pick up is low to the brigde and has a full sound, the small volume and tone control provide a range of tones and control. The pick up does provide a fare amount of output. The neck is smooth and has a nice contour with good string spacing for open chording and string bending. It is a minimalist dream, with one pick up , a volume and tone control, but who even uses the tone control? It has a plastic nut, and those old time plastic tuners that would crack apart and fall off in the old days. It seems to have one slab of wood , but it's hard to tell with the black satin paint. It would be nice to have a natural finish, with a red or gold pick guard. Just leave it a natural wood on the front and     back with one solid piece of wood. Leave off the     tone control, and add the green Klusons, and put some of those active pickups in it that the Gothic Morte has.     This could be a minimalist teenagers dream.

But it's a no bones , nice guitar.

I went to a local music store today (as I do every Saturday) and I saw this guitar hanging in the wall. My sight just went over it completly, but did a double-take when it caught sight of the headstock- a Gibson! I instantly began examining it closely: fatty neck and a P-90 were what drew me to it- those are my favorite features on any guitar. I plugged in a Spyder Line 6 head with a Fender cabinet and it SANG! The tone is just amazing! I played some blues, then moved on to classic rock. Unvelibable! Tweaking the volume and tone controls you can get a much softer sound than just the bridge pickup. The finish (cherry) was really good, nice and deep. It had a pleaseant satin touch to it, and the first time, I felt I was actually playing wood. The pickup adapts to picking speed, so you can get soft, ballad-like arpeggios and, picking harder, you can go into rock/blues power chords. The only thing I didn    t like: the PRICE!     It's twisted, really, offering a "student" model for that price. I plan complaining to Gibson, I hope they listen to me. Overall, if you can afford it, this guitar is beautiful tonemonster/workhorse by excellence. Buy it!