Les Paul Standard Vs Heritage

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celtic_strummer First Time Poster Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Wales UK Les Paul Standard Vs Heritage     Hi I'm a newbie here. Been playin, for my own pleasure, since my teens. Stopped for about 10 years now taken it back up again. I'm enjoying my mid life crisis and want to buy a "good" guitar. Currently playing my old CMI SG copy I got in the late seventies, its battered and I love it. I always wanted a Les Paul standard, and now at last I can afford one, well a reasonably new second hand one. However, I'm also tempted by the Heritage H150, which is about the same money as a LPS but i'm told is better than the LPS and as good as if not better than a Les Paul custom. I'm not buying for investment, I want to play the instrument, but on the other hand value for money is part of the equation. I would love to hear someone elses opinion on this. Thanks for reading Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:23 pm

jimmyneel New Member Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 4 Hi Mr C.Strummer, I can't comment on the Heritage, but I play a beaten LP Std of indeterminable age. I love that guitar. I reckon it must be the mystique of the LP itself that makes it feel so special when it's in my hands - maybe I should say that I feel special, rather than the guitar feeling special . But yeah, as i say, it is the mystique, the legend, of the guitar that stirs me. Plus the sound is ! The quality of Gibson LPs these days can be pretty poor - bad fitting binding, badly fitting frets... By early 2000s they were quite shoddy, so I wouldn't buy any Gibson LP after the '80s, probably. Heritage, on the other hand, is still hand made in Kalamazoo, and friends tell me that they are consistently of high standard. I've yet to play one, as I say. The legend has it that when Gibson moved to Nashville in '85, some Gibson luthiers stayed in Kalamazoo and started up Heritage in the old Gibson building using Gibson machinery, so I guess Heritage is the real heritage of Gibson! If I can scrape together enough, I'd get a Heritage LP for sure. Some day, some day... Jimmy _________________ Dancing without music would be a beautiful madness www.guitarsalescenter.com Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:34 am

jimmyneel New Member Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 4 Ha, I just noticed that the first post is about 2 years old _________________ Dancing without music would be a beautiful madness www.guitarsalescenter.com Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:36 am

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