Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional Pro Electric Guitar  

this guitar is very easy to tune and stays in tune very nice. I love the push nobs to get that nice strat sound and use the humbuckers for that classic les paul tone.

The quality on this guitar is fantastic! If you are looking for all the punch of the les paul you will find it in the bridge pickup and if you want that mellow warm tone you will find it in the neck pickup. i play different types of music playing from rock, blues, jazz, and metal and this guitar can do any of these styles perfectly! it is not chambered, which i love, and the sustain goes on forever! This is something that cannot be duplicated! the feel is deffinetly one of a kind.

This guitar is a GIBSON les paul, not an epiphone knockoff. Dont get me wrong, if epiphone is all you can afford there is nothing wrong with that, they can be good guitars. But they do not mount up to this beast! it is pricey but as i said earlier, you are paying for versatility and power and it will be well worth it to save up to buy one! If you want something cheaper that holds a great sustain, look for a schecter c1 classic but unfortunatley those have stopped being made and they do not have as much kick as this power house.

This is the best guitar i have ever owned or played! There are good guitars out there, but this one is perfect for me.

Its (2) years now and I give this guitar a (9). When I first got the guitar the first thing I experienced was the beautiful smell of wood as the top was pulled.

As time goes on, I am constantly surprised on the versatility of this instrument.

I really took volume and tone knobs for granted and I will never again let the amp drive the controls.

The tone knob on the pickups do exactly what I never expected, they really make very distinctive changes. This is not my first Les Paul either.

The only thing I can really equate this to is using the controls on the Slash AFD Marshal head EQ controls.

I bought the signature Buckethead to be my number one... That just didn't happen.

As pretty as the sig. BH is, it doesn't have the versatility that my Ebony Trad. has.

BH remains as it in her case awaiting the next time we cut tracks for our next studio sesh.

The guitar is not flawless and I wouldn't have it any other way. Although I have a rash protecter (ya gotta get these things the peel off a paper backing and set on the guitar nice), the back and sides are satin, and I hear people complaining about the sides and backs being unfinished, I don't care how it looks, I need me a guitar with a real guitar players nicks, dings and burns, created by a life of playing, not pre aged in a shop. I just don't get paying some dude to make my guitar look like Stevie's if I need pre aging, I better sound that way.

The guitar out of the box, untouched by anyone except Gibson. It's that whole stupid Gibson no doing strap locks theory.

Shibootie was named by my kids. I love this guitar. It completes me.... I want one in the 2012 standard fur glow burst.

The tuners are great. The coil taps are great.The guitar plays great. The finish is..........unfinished. Why would Gibson make a guitar that finished properly on the front and half assed on the back? Also, the 60's slim taper neck...is'nt. I have a 62 SG and a 61 125and those have slim tapered necks. As someone who has made a few guitars I'm not sure what the probem is here Gibson. Grab some old guitars, make some templates, and produce an authentic 60's slim tapered neck.Still a nice neck and slimer than the 50's style necks.

Three things here. 1. The finish. This guitar is finished on the front and has a matte finish on the back????????? Why not just do the whole finish right? Fortunately I have a buffer made for polishing guitarsand a couple minutes on the fine wheel makes that back look pretty good. You would have to look pretty hard now to see Gibson's poor quality. A word of caution if you try this is to buff LIGHTLY as I would think it would be easy to burn through.  2.How hard is it to get fake mother of pearl to match? While you cannot really see it from the front, when you look down at my neck while playing you notice the 3rd fret marker is a slightly different color.  3. Just because you can bring a string up to the note in less than one turn of the locking Grovers does not mean that you should. This would mean moving the tuner even the slightest bit could change the string by several notes. ALL of the strings had LESS THAN A SINGLE TURN ON THE POST. The first thing I had to do was put a new set of strings on correctly!!!!!!! That's B.S.

I would still say this is a great value since I got mine on sale. I paid about the same or less than I could have found it used.

Overall a great guitar. Try to buy it on sale if you can. Did I mention this thing is HEAVY. No silly relief on this body for you purests who want the heft of the classic Les Paul.

I like the locking tuners.  I thought I would like the pickups and coil-tapping, but I didn't.

The guitar itself seems very solid.  The neck joint was nice, and the setup was quite good.  The electronics, however, were a tad flaky: not too bad, but not perfect.  That's been my experience with a lot of pull-knobs, I guess.

It depends if you're comparing it to other Gibson USA Les Paul's or not.  Compared to the rest of those, you get a lot for the money.  Compared to some sililar guitars, you don't get much value.  For example, I still prefered my DeArmond M-77 with Gibson '57 Classic and Classis Plus pickups to this guitar, and it cost me less than a quarter of what these go for.

I played a cherry one at Guitar Center, and really liked it a lot.  I wanted a wine red one, though, and Musician's Friend had a like new used one for sale.  Maybe it was just a bit of a dud.  The guitar I received played well, but it was uninspiring.  The pickups, in particular, did not sound like the ones in the store.  It was hard to get any sort of sweet, chimey clean sound out of the middle position, and that is a key tone for Les Paul-type guitars if you ask me.  I didn't care for the brifge position for overdriven tones, either. Pretty grating. The coil-split single-coil tones were certainly less-than-great, too.

Again, I really love the one I played at the store.  Maybe this was just a less-than-great one.  Then again, I've always found Gibson's quality control to be inferior to Fender's (for USA-made models, anyway).

Push/Pull split coils that I find fantastic.  Locking Grover tuners also an added plus.  No-chamberd with a hefty weight.

I can only say that my guitar arrived beautiful right out of the box.  I had no cosmetic or quality ssues what so ever.  The guitar is beautiful.  I bought the ebony and its a very elegant guitar.

After trying differnet Gibson LP model I settle for the Tradional Pro.  To me the sound of the 57 Classic and the Bustbuker 3 sound amazing, and add to that the coil splitting option and I am in tonal heaven.  The is a heavy Les Paul that I like due to the fact of the incresed sustain.  In addition it has Grove tuner which to me is a huge plus. All these options for this price is reallya steal.

What can I say, Buy It!!  Trust me you will not be sorry at all.  This is a Keeper.