Les Paul price?

[enalnitram]

Although it is common to pooh-pooh the Norlin era, I love my '74 Deluxe and have not shopped seriously for another Lester since acquiring it in the early 80s.
...PLAY IN PERSON before you buy, because Gibson QC has been all over the map for decades. You never know whether an individual Gibby is going to be a dog or a keeper.

This is true! My LP was an '82 Standard and I loved it. To me, it beat every other LP I ever played, it was just too heavy for me to use live, for my tastes. Quick anecdote. When I was in college my teacher had a real '58 burst. It was his main guitar...his father owned a music store and he bought it new, when he was 13 years old. He loved my '82 also. I had a few other guitars I preferred to play for jazz. But I always brought the 82 LP to my lessons because he would want to swap and let me play the 58 so he could play my 82!

[John A.]

My take on the whole Norlin thing is that the actual build quality of the instruments is fine. However, many of the spec/design ideas were either not so great or were changes that people didn't like because they were deviations from the past. I started playing guitar at the height (depth?) of Norlin. I had two of them (an acoustic and an SG) and have played lots of others. Granted, I was a lot less savvy about guitars early on, but I don't remember ever thinking "OMG, this thing sucks; I can't believe it got out of the factory with these problems." Often, though, it was "hmm, this is not exactly what I expected a [LP, SG, 335, etc.] to be like", or "the old ones were a lot prettier." CBS Fender was a different story -- a lot of those were flat out terrible guitars with major defects that made them borderline unplayable (or not even borderline). To someone of my vintage, it's very strange to see the prices these fetch.

[jazzloverfat]

Ah, but which would sell easier when (if) I am done with it?

That is something I don't know much about, since I was never in a rush to sell anything. If I want to get rid of something, I set my price and I wait until someone agrees to my terms. Except for this one time when I took full advantage of peoples' gas, I'm really not into trading guitars or gear. (Tho trading LEGO minifigs and MTG cards in highschool was hella fun and quite lucrative xD, so i get the thrill if one is so inclined)

[buduranus2]

I have never seen a Les Paul Classic with that headstock. I would do some serious due diligence to make sure that guitar is not a "Chibson"

This.

[Woody Sound]

This.

GIBSON LES PAUL CLASSIC ANTIQUE (LPCA) for sale - Price and Used Value

[Herbie]

Congrats for a good idea! LP is always a good idea!

If You are really interested in having a good instrument You should check some Custom Shop models too. I had several USA Gibsons until I tried a CS R6 Goldtop and realised that they are quite different from the basic line.

I have learned to dig the beefier necks (that’s where the sound comes!) and is it the long volute or not, the feel of CS guitars is more solid.

I ended to own one LP with P90s (Reissue 1954 Goldtop) and one with humbuckers (R8 Cherry Sunburst plaintop). Both about 3,8 kg. They are joy to play!

[rob taft]

I believe Gibson produced this guitar in the 07-08 timeframe. The neck should be a slim taper 60's neck, chambered body with 57 Classic pickups. Make sure you can live with the 60's slim taper neck.

[Archie]

Gibson claim to be fighting Chinese imports of Les Pauls but I also think on the flip side, their future marketing strategy will be

“If you want the genuine article, buy new from our licensed dealers’.

Saves them having to compete with used Les Pauls, if the well has been poisoned (so to speak).

[Woody Sound]

I believe Gibson produced this guitar in the 07-08 timeframe. The neck should be a slim taper 60's neck, chambered body with 57 Classic pickups. Make sure you can live with the 60's slim taper neck.

I don't mind a slim depth, as long as it's not a narrow width.

[John A.]

I don't mind a slim depth, as long as it's not a narrow width.

The slim taper '60s neck has the normal 1-11/16" nut width. SFAIK, the fingerboards of all LP's (and all other 22-fret Gibsons with that scale length) are the same width/taper and have the same string spacing. Terms like "slim taper" "fat '50s", etc., refer to the shape and thickness of the neck, not fingerboard or nut dimensions.