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lespauljunioraficionado
Published on 04/21/09 at 11:36
Manufacturing us
22 frets
1 micro P90 Dogear (avé ears), and one is all bad
stopbar bridge, with compensation for the six strings on the pitch: you can not resolve
that overall the tailpiece-bridge, not note-for-note, not a tune-o-matic
1 volume knob, 1 tone
Handle U
Contrary to what they advertise on their site (misleading advertising), all LP Jr did not have a body in one piece, the vast majority is in three parts and mine is in this case, but it is not really obvious, must be close to notice.
Finishes ... ah there it stinks: it is poorly sanded at the notch of the body and the base of the handle, there traces of glue, you can see under the paint, which is pretty ugly cherry: y 'areas too dark when they have too. The varnish is of nitrocellulose, but it is, how to say shit ...: very poorly applied, it begins to cross at the neck after a month of its appearance fears the pudding, in short, SATIN FINISH AT GIBSON, CONTRARY TO WHAT THEY SAY WE IS NOT FOR COMFORT BUT FOR SAVING LABOUR, moreover, there is no satin finish to custom shop: weird, not ?
Result, I transferred all the finishing by sanding, then I polished the guitar with the wax anticaires and now she is nickel: very very soft to the touch, the handle is never sticky, it does not stick and aesthetically, natural mahogany is very classy. But beware, a guitar waxed, it talks to regularly, such as leather shoes!
Without finishing crap I put a 9, but I put a 1, because Gibson did have a century to be able to apply a paint and varnish.
UTILIZATION
Channel U large enough but far from a log, if you're used to playing on Gibson or Paul Reed Smith, there is no problem
Access to the treble is not too bad, because people will say it's not a guitar shredder, but to his rocker.
The Les Paul Junior is much lighter than her sisters because she has no table in maple. It is even lighter than a Fender ash (ash). The cut is basic: a form of Les Paul Standard but without the relief, ie without the carved table. There is no stomach cutting or chamfer the right forearm of right-handers. With regard to the wrist of the hand scraper, the tailpiece stopbar well suited for play and sit on mute. It's even better than if there were individual bridges, because it sometimes it fried (especially on vintage strats).
For a sound worthy of the name on the LP Junior, must know how to play brutal, it's not for nothing that the punks have so well adopted. Should not make his chochotte.
SOUNDS
I play a mix of rock, blues, funk, folk, punk, metal, in short, just about anything as long as it is roots.
Plugged into a Vox AC15, the Les Paul Junior begins to give the best of itself when you put the crunch for the distortion is also very good, very brutal, but so far, it does not until you shear the ears (the opposite of what you can do a Telecaster or Esquire position micro acute if, of course, the settings are incorrect). on the other hand, this LP Junior is not to my taste at all made the clean and crystalline. The unique micro P90 has much to do in this "specialization" of the guitar. All volume and tone controls work very well, I mean they are very progressive.
Two tips that do not bind me to get the best of the junior (and all other Junior passage): put ropes deep draft, Gender 11-48 or more, the sound is really "full "because with its short scale Gibson, this guitar will sound fairly rather weak with lighter rods. I also suggest you adjust the tuning open tuning, to enjoy his brutal side using the open strings.
OVERALL OPINION
I use to this day for a month.
What I like and love about this guitar is its simplicity and effectiveness, although it is not very versatile (it's not a Paul Reed Smith, whatever).
What I literally dripped, it's crappy finish, unworthy of Gibson.
Guitars, I've tried a lot before choosing this LP Junior, namely Telecaster and Stratocaster in the same price range as the Junior, therefore Mexican, which I thought very bland (perhaps did it come from the fact that I played on a PRS SE mahogany, therefore warm and rich). In any case, Junior is a skyscraper that was a real character, we like it or not is a direct guitar, made for the "plug & play, ideal to spit juice on Vox lamps.
The value seems balanced, really.
From experience, I have and I intend to make the election again in the future by going to the upper range (the Gibson custom shop) or by building myself my own Les Paul Junior (with my Own Two Hands looks like Ben Harper).
22 frets
1 micro P90 Dogear (avé ears), and one is all bad
stopbar bridge, with compensation for the six strings on the pitch: you can not resolve
that overall the tailpiece-bridge, not note-for-note, not a tune-o-matic
1 volume knob, 1 tone
Handle U
Contrary to what they advertise on their site (misleading advertising), all LP Jr did not have a body in one piece, the vast majority is in three parts and mine is in this case, but it is not really obvious, must be close to notice.
Finishes ... ah there it stinks: it is poorly sanded at the notch of the body and the base of the handle, there traces of glue, you can see under the paint, which is pretty ugly cherry: y 'areas too dark when they have too. The varnish is of nitrocellulose, but it is, how to say shit ...: very poorly applied, it begins to cross at the neck after a month of its appearance fears the pudding, in short, SATIN FINISH AT GIBSON, CONTRARY TO WHAT THEY SAY WE IS NOT FOR COMFORT BUT FOR SAVING LABOUR, moreover, there is no satin finish to custom shop: weird, not ?
Result, I transferred all the finishing by sanding, then I polished the guitar with the wax anticaires and now she is nickel: very very soft to the touch, the handle is never sticky, it does not stick and aesthetically, natural mahogany is very classy. But beware, a guitar waxed, it talks to regularly, such as leather shoes!
Without finishing crap I put a 9, but I put a 1, because Gibson did have a century to be able to apply a paint and varnish.
UTILIZATION
Channel U large enough but far from a log, if you're used to playing on Gibson or Paul Reed Smith, there is no problem
Access to the treble is not too bad, because people will say it's not a guitar shredder, but to his rocker.
The Les Paul Junior is much lighter than her sisters because she has no table in maple. It is even lighter than a Fender ash (ash). The cut is basic: a form of Les Paul Standard but without the relief, ie without the carved table. There is no stomach cutting or chamfer the right forearm of right-handers. With regard to the wrist of the hand scraper, the tailpiece stopbar well suited for play and sit on mute. It's even better than if there were individual bridges, because it sometimes it fried (especially on vintage strats).
For a sound worthy of the name on the LP Junior, must know how to play brutal, it's not for nothing that the punks have so well adopted. Should not make his chochotte.
SOUNDS
I play a mix of rock, blues, funk, folk, punk, metal, in short, just about anything as long as it is roots.
Plugged into a Vox AC15, the Les Paul Junior begins to give the best of itself when you put the crunch for the distortion is also very good, very brutal, but so far, it does not until you shear the ears (the opposite of what you can do a Telecaster or Esquire position micro acute if, of course, the settings are incorrect). on the other hand, this LP Junior is not to my taste at all made the clean and crystalline. The unique micro P90 has much to do in this "specialization" of the guitar. All volume and tone controls work very well, I mean they are very progressive.
Two tips that do not bind me to get the best of the junior (and all other Junior passage): put ropes deep draft, Gender 11-48 or more, the sound is really "full "because with its short scale Gibson, this guitar will sound fairly rather weak with lighter rods. I also suggest you adjust the tuning open tuning, to enjoy his brutal side using the open strings.
OVERALL OPINION
I use to this day for a month.
What I like and love about this guitar is its simplicity and effectiveness, although it is not very versatile (it's not a Paul Reed Smith, whatever).
What I literally dripped, it's crappy finish, unworthy of Gibson.
Guitars, I've tried a lot before choosing this LP Junior, namely Telecaster and Stratocaster in the same price range as the Junior, therefore Mexican, which I thought very bland (perhaps did it come from the fact that I played on a PRS SE mahogany, therefore warm and rich). In any case, Junior is a skyscraper that was a real character, we like it or not is a direct guitar, made for the "plug & play, ideal to spit juice on Vox lamps.
The value seems balanced, really.
From experience, I have and I intend to make the election again in the future by going to the upper range (the Gibson custom shop) or by building myself my own Les Paul Junior (with my Own Two Hands looks like Ben Harper).