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Old 11-04-2011, 12:19 PM
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Gibson.com: Gibson L6S

Time to get your Pat Martino on?

I thought it had a 25 1/2" scale. Oh well, not that interesting -- you think they could have put on some more interesting humbuckers...

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Old 11-04-2011, 12:30 PM
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(*) Or get your Carlos on...

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Was there a demand for this? I mean this has GOT to be the answer to a question nobody asked...
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Old 11-04-2011, 12:53 PM
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heh my friend has an l6 S that he stripped the paint off and hot rodded up a bit. Thin strings, low action, coil tapped...great rocker...
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:03 PM
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Had one for about a year back in the 70's - never bonded with it.
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:42 PM
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Having sold my Les Paul a couple of years ago due to its weight, I don't think the solid maple L6 is going to replace my 335.
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:45 PM
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I have a student with one of these (an original).

He prefers (as do I) his $200 Ibanez Superstrat.

Just sayin.'
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Old 11-04-2011, 01:47 PM
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Here are some of the earlier, original, versions, with a L-5 (ish?) neck and tailpiece.

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Old 11-04-2011, 02:35 PM
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EDIT: Those previous four are L5-S's. I didn't realize there were two models here, the L6-S and the L5-S... Confused!
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They should be able to make those for a couple hundrend buck. I wonder what they'll charge?
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I also had one back in the 70s . The only good thing about it were the pickups , designed by Bill Lawrence . Other than that , like Tom Karol said , " could never bond with it " . Cracks me up that you can buy an original on E-Bay for a fraction of what these new ones cost . I heard their over two grand . To each his own .
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Those L-5S look better to me than the L-6. An all Maple Solid body? Ugh./
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Old 11-04-2011, 03:38 PM
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I had a friend who bought one in the 90s, I tried it. It wasn't nothing to write home about, he had it about a month. He had a hard time getting rid of it, he took a loss on it. Traded it for accoustic guitar I think.
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Old 11-04-2011, 03:59 PM
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I had an L5-S back in the late '70s. Cherry sunburst. Really pretty. Heaviest d*mn guitar I ever owned. Didn't keep it long.
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I played an L6s for while in the late 70's. Worst case of neck dive ever!
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Old 11-04-2011, 08:01 PM
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Just to add to the confusion, here's my Warmoth version of an L5S:

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Old 11-04-2011, 08:34 PM
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I like maple fretboards. That's pretty much the end of the nice things I have to say about that guitar.
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Now.. if they had taken a les paul.. tobacco sunburst.. one HB in the neck.. es175 parallelogram inlay on the FB.. maybe they would have something.
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Now.. if they had taken a les paul.. tobacco sunburst.. one HB in the neck.. es175 parallelogram inlay on the FB.. maybe they would have something.
Nice idea! They've done a Les Paul version of the ES-295, so this doesn't seem too far fetched. Make it a single CC in the neck position and I'd be interested.

Maybe the L6S is not a coincidence at the moment: Those wood raids probably left them with a lot of maple to spare.
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Too funny. I also had an L6-S back around 1982. For about year.

My first electric. Didn't last. Sold it and bought a 1957 ES-225. Which I still have...
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Old 11-05-2011, 12:24 PM
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So why is it that you guys don't like this guitar? My friend is into his, though he's much more of a hobbyist.
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It was my first solidbody. And I was staunch Gibson guy at the time. It had some really good sounds, but it just didn't feel right. I was never comfortable playing it. I thought I just wasn't a solidbody kind of guy. Then 20 years later, I got my second solidbody - an ash 'Tele' with a maple fingerboard (Hamer T-51). It's been my main axe for the past 20 years since then. Go figure!
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I thought it would be sorta halfway between a Strat and a Les Paul--in terms of both tones and weight.

I thought it would land right in the middle, best of both worlds.

Instead, it kinda fell right through the gap and kept going. Splat.

I remember it as just kind of cold and brittle and thin. None of the gravitas or ballsiness of a good Les Paul, and not much of the chimey twang and cut I love in a Strat or Tele.

I'd played only flat-top acoustics with ebony or rosewood fingerboards before I got the L6-S. I couldn't get comfortable with the maple neck. Too slippery, too hard for me, at least back then.
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Without the Bill Lawrence designed pickups, I doubt this guitar will sound like the original.

Neck dive aside, it had a great selection of tones, and fantastic sustain.
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Old 11-06-2011, 01:15 PM
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I liked the one I played for metal...really fast neck, good tone through the right amp...
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Had one for about a year back in the 70's - never bonded with it.

same here, had the black one with ebony fretboard..
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Here are some of the earlier, original, versions, with a L-5 (ish?) neck and tailpiece.
i dig those especially that natural! i wish they would remake 'em, this time chambered, so not so heavy.
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(*) Or get your Carlos on...
Does it come with matching platform sandals??

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Does it come with matching platform sandals??
And guru decal.
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