I am a studio guitarist for country music recordings. I live and play in Nashville, the home of this great company. I love it, its one of the best guitarist I own. I also own Les Pauls signature which looks amazing on the pickguard on the guitar ( only used during live shows) I give this a 10 out of 10!

Awesome tone and rhythm. Sounds great through any type of amp!

Takes a while to get adjusted to the pick ups. Have to play around with it a while. Other than that its very easy to use.

Top of the line. Puts fender in the grave. Best American Guitar I've ever played.

I payed $2999 for my guitar and so far have got every penny I spent out of it. High price but worth it!

Ever have questions Gibson always is kind enough to answer any question you got.

I had a erection towards this thing since the day I saw it. Now its my "partner" Love it!

Professional Musician

Country

NOTHING sounds like a Gibson Les Paul. I play every style of music; rock, blues, jazz, heavy metal, and this guitar handles it all!

This guitar comes with a hard shell Gibson USA case. The guitar itself is equipped with 2 volume and 2 tone controls, as well as a 3 way toggle switch for pickup selection.

I use this guitar through a Marshall JCM 900 on stage and a Roland Micro Cube at home. Of course, it is a Les Paul...it sounds great through everything.

The Les Pauls of the past went out of tune easily, and weren't set up very well from the factory. The new Standard is equipped with Grover locking tuners, which hold the guitar in tune perfectly. I haven't had to do any modifications to this guitar, it played perfect straight from the factory.

This is an expensive guitar! I payed $2,600 for mine. But, you will not get that Gibson sound from any other guitar. You can get a Fender Stratocaster for $999, and it will sound great, but it will not sound like a Gibson. The Les Paul is worth the extra money without a doubt.

Haven't had to use Customer Service yet!

This is the most beautiful guitar made!

Active Musician

Rock, Blues, Jazz, Heavy Metal

Awesome, best I ever sounded. But I don't have a killer Marshall or Mesa tube - just a new Peavey tube (about $600) amp, so I cant rate it a "10".

What more do you want in a guitar? One that washes dishes? If you know how to use vol and tone in combination and know that pick up setting you want, do you need anything else? I don't use a whammy, so I don't miss it.

Love the slim 60's neck! Didn't like playing the 50's neck at all. "Riding" the sustain is one of my favorite "tricks" when ending songs or coming out of a lead. It can go forever!

Best guitar I ever owned. Got the Gold Top and it looks great! Bindings look great too. No flaws whatsoever. And American made!

Here we go again. If they can make an Epiphone knock off for $400-$700, how can they charge so much for this great axe? What does this have that the Epi does not have, or could not be added? I will state till I die that this is the best guitar I ever owned, but I do think that it is seriously overpriced. Probably because of saps like me that had to wait until their 40's to own such a treasure. The Les Paul robot guitar provides me with a more palpable value proposition so that may be my next guitar. Let's face it, Gibson has the quality and the name. You really can't lose if you buy it at the right price.

Only called to review the warranty. Got a live person in 3 minutes and they answered my question.

I wanted this guitar for nearly 30 years, and got it last year. It is one of the most recognizable, sought after guitars out there. I wanted it more after I actually played one! Iti is a dream come true.

Hobbyist

Rock

i love the warm tones that the les paul produces. whether i'm hard rocking to metallica or bending slowly to the characteristic tones of slash the sound is absoultely fantastic. there is no way i would ever go back to owning a fender strat after having the pleasure of ownin a les paul.

with the les paul i bought i was given a fitted hard case, strings and a gibson logo strap. the best features are the incredible humbuckers. the positon of the selector switch is in the perfect spot on the body.i think the whole guitar is near perfect.the body and the neck are both made from mahoginy, but my model has a 60's fast fretting neck. the whole set up or the guitar is fantastic.

this model is absouletly impeckable the finnish is fantastic i've never had a problem with it.

there are a lot of guitars for this price but i dont think anything comes close.

i've never had any problems with it, so i've never meeded to contact the company.

comone, this is a gibson les paul every one wants one, the quality and the looks ooze sex appeal, it looks awsome.

blues rock like slash

This is one of the best sounded and sexeast looking guitars i have ever played....i have a lot in my day too. The sound quality is amazing. It respones like a dream, plays very easy and smooth. It has balanced tone for the most part, more on the bright side a little though. It is good for all rock styles, wounderful blues guitar, and and any other style i can think of it would be great for except Jazz. It has all around good sound. I'm just an alright guitar player...and i was complemented on my playing with this guitar by a total sranger-it makes most all of your sound, sound great. It would go pretty good with most all other products, though it would sound better with other gibsons,as far as guitars go. It would be an awsome guitar for live or in the studio. Sounds good with any settings, but sustainfull settings best. I used a Marshall valve state half stack and my friend was on a tama rock drum set. Sounds good, would make a great guitar for anyone who buy it. Not too many things could make this sound better but ... the guitar has lots of sustain so it will go best with other rock oriented instraments.

Made by the best guitar company in my opinion. Very well put together, amde in US. The finish is very nice...it is very beautiful guitar. Very reliable product. As with any Gibson, you can play to your hearts content and you can be confident that nothin will break. Would be fine for use on the road. Worst aspect is thats its very heavy for a gutar. Seems like it would last for a lifetime.

This is one of the niced guitars i have ever played, but it is 2000 dallors. I think that is pretty high price for a guitar, i would be more likely to buy it if it was around 1200 dallors, i also think that Gibson would sell mush more of them too.

It is the most Sexest guitar i have ever played. This guitar really inspires a player to play more. It is a very nice feeling guitar. And it is very beautifully crafted. The falmetop is on thing that appeals to me, and the classic Les Paul shape i find very appealing as well.It would still sound great without the flametop.

mostly play blues, but with lots of rock and Alternative mixed in.Also play jazz.

I gave it a 10 for overdrive tone. After swapping out the pickups out for a '59 neck and Evolution bridge, the OD tone sounds better than anything I've heard. It handles everything from classic rock tone, to the highest of high gain distortion, in spades. For clean tones it sounds good, but imo lacks the midrange character of say a Tele or Strat.

The '60s neck is extremely fast & comfortable imo. I've heard folks w/shorter fingers rave about this neck. I have the long piano fingers... and still absolutely love this neck :)

Mine was made in 1991, and is extremely well put together. Just a very solid feeling, workhorse of a guitar.

Mine was $800 in '91. Who knows how much they'll cost in 10-15 years!

Haven't needed it.

Musician

Jazz, fusion, hard rock

The best crunch guitar in the world. Absolutely unparalleled.

It's a simple but effective formula, the tuners are a bit crap on it.

Even the slim neck is too thick and a bit ungainly for my taste. I don't think the frets are designed very well, and it feels like you have to fight the guitar to play fast. Not very good access to the upper register.

yeh it's good.

Gibson's are notoriously overpriced. It's a great guitar that I'd gladly pay about 3/4 of the standard asking price

dunno

It just looks cool, doesn't it?

semi-pro

rock, pop, blues

It was a little mellow for my taste. Replaced the stock pu's with Duncans, much improved.

This has been the standard for decades, no need to change.

For the money the binding and inlays could have been done better, overall great look and feel.

Great guitar, but a little pricey.

don't know

I own it, know complaints.

Nothing comes close to sounding like a LP they have been around for ever! It is one of the most sought after tones in the business! Everything is based around the Les Paul and the Humbucker. I play straight into my amps ( Marshall's & Vox's ) my only pedal is a tape echo delay thats it. The sound is amazing. Sustain is for ever, screaming leads, melting chords and crunchy blues ect ect you name it. You cant plug a $3000.00 LP into a $30.00 amp and then complain about the sound of the guitar!

If you want bells and whistles, then buy bells and whistles. It has what it needs. Volume and tone.... what else is there. Want a "whammy bar" buy a LP with a bigsby! or add one to your LP. A guitar is wood and pickups. Those of you who need all the other crap... should focus less on the junk and learn how to use that axe!

The tones you can get from this LP are endless, thats if your not afraid to use the knobs! People just turn the knobs to 10 and then complain they cant get the sound they want! If you play through a real amp, not those cheap half tube or cheesy modeling things,I mean real all tube amps. I dont care which brand, everybody has a different ear. You can make this guitar do what ever you want it to.

It is a Gibson, hand made! every once in a while there might be a slight flaw. I'd rather have a Gibson than anything else. Fit and finish is awesome. Never ever had a problem with anything on all my Gibsons dating back to the early 70's. Some people say their turners suck... all I can say is learn how to string a guitar! Just added my 4th LP a few months back and it is the same quality Gibson as my earlier ones. I have purchased $40000.00 autos that had some slight flaws also! If you think an Epiphone LP is just as nice as an Gibson.. you need to quit playing the guitar and play the bongos or something. The Epi is a really nice cheap replica that the average Joe can buy, but it is nothing like a Gibson.

You are buying a piece of history. The icon of Rock-N-Roll. The most recognizable guitar of all time! Made in AMERICA baby! you want cheap, cheesy plastic finished guitars that take batteries, I suggest you buy them and do the rest of us a favor and dont buy a LP and then complain about the price! You get what you pay for.

Dont really know about repair or anything else because I never needed to use it in 37 years!

Hello!!! It's a Les Paul

Musician,

A little bit of everything- mostly Rock/Classic Rock

It just doesn't get any better than this!

The tuners suck- you'd think for something this pricey they could at least put Grovers on!!

this bugger starts digging a groove in my shoulder after about 20 minutes...

The AA maple top could be a lot better- what are they doing over there at gibson now, only putting the really nice flamey tops on the 5000 dollar guitars?

Way overprice, actually

It's a Les Paul, for god's sake, what else do you want?

Hobbyist, occasional gigs

Blues , hard rock, metal

The sound of this guitar was exactly what I was looking for. For a classic rock junkie like myself, it was the perfect match. People that are realy in to 60's rock like Clapton, Paige, and Beck should really at least try this guitar out, I think i'm going to trade in my current guitar in for this one in the next few weeks.

This guitar has no problems, everything is completely seamless, there is no hum from the pickups, which sound great, the neck is smaller for faster playing then previous models, and the bridge is good to.

This is my dream guitar, straight and simple. The rootbeer finish which is what I played on is simply amazing, there are no problems with it at all. I love the feel of a Gibson, when you pick it up, it's heavy and you can feel all the hard work that went into making it, and you know it means buisness, its just so much more brutal then a Stratocaster, a Strat has a very clean sound that is great for players with alot of finesse, but a Gibson is great for players who might not be the fastest players, but have alot of technique which really comes through in the guitars pickups.

I would say the price of this guitar is well well worth it. It really is one of the best guitars I have ever played.

I have never been in contact with Gibson.

I knew I needed this guitar I soon as I saw pictures of it, but with others it might be different. The look of the guitar is great as I mentioned before, and the feel of the guitar is wonderful.

Active Musician

Blues, and Rock

It is a Gibson Les Paul need I say more?

Les Paul's ideas are still paying off for guitarist whom happen to own a Les Paul.

Once again its Gibson. For those people who like formulas. Gibson=Quality

The quality and sound is worth every penny. Never settle for a knock off if you don't have too.

I have never needed support for my baby. With this guitar and my other Les Paul thats about 5 years old i have never nor will probably ever have a problem.

Everything but techno.

Hobbyist

Rock and pop

I love this guitars sound. It has an range from death metal to smooth jazz with proper distortions.

Very good features on this guitar except I wish It came with a whammy bar

It depends on how much you know guitars. i've been playing for 8 years and I can get the sound i need in seconds

I'd say the product is made fairly well unless you pay less to get the blemished. The finish is sexy (i have cherry sunburst) and it'll probably last me my whole life.

this guitar is well worth the money. It's sound is perfect and the body and finish is worth every penny

never needed help. Except when my cousin destroyed the strings :). I blame myself for that part

I've wanted this guitar since I was a kid.

Active Musician

Jazz / light metal

Anybody that puts anything but stock tunerson Gibson LP's and SG's just don't how to tune a guitar, and think changing the tuners will fix the problem. The Gibson tuners are about as close to perfection as there is. You have to know how to play by ear. and get it in tune using harmonices BEFORE you play. No tuners, you wusses.

what are the least useful features?

Tune it and know how to play

The best guitar made

it doesn't compare to another guitar besides a stratocast and rickenbacker

Yes

the best guitar for lead

35 years playing

Blues Rock

Had one of these back in 76, which I bought new. Since then have had various others including a PRS which I thought looked great but sounded horrible. I was a little put off by the chambered body/lighter weight design compared to the overweight battle axe I was used to, but when I plugged this in, I couldn't figure out why I ever sold my 76. I love the sound from this guitar.

Grover tuners would've been nice. I got them std on my ES335 DOT. I immediately installed the pick guard when I got this guitar. IMO should've been done at the factory. Just doesn't look like an LP without it.

The action out of the box is excellent. THere was no need to adjust anything.

AA Premium Flame top? I don't think so. Yeah, there is some flame, but it's hard to notice in certain light. There is also alot of grain running through the wood that detracts from the flame. Might not be so noticeable on the darker colors, but I got Heritage Cherry. The lacquer finish on the other hand is perfect.

Overall, considering what you get for your money these days, it's a good value.

Don't know haven't ever needed it.

Who doesn't want one?

the sound is really smooth and powerful through pretty much any amp out there and has endless sustain. its the best sounding gibson and one of the best sounding guitars in the world, bar none.

One word- unbelievable. the newer model is much lighter than before, the woods used makes the guitar sound really meaty, there is a volume and tone knob for each humbucker and a 3 way PU selector switch which can be used as a "killswich" if one of the pickups is turned way down, and its a gibson. do the math.

Its a guitar-it cant be much easier to use, especially with the great feeling neck and fingerboard.

ITS A GIBSON!!!

sure almost 3000$ is a lot, but for what youre getting, its dirt cheap.

N/A

its a gibson les paul, the most sought after guitar one the planet.

Rock, Hard Rock, Metal

Its the guitar Page and Slash used, need I say more?

Good wood and pickups

It better be good quality for two grand

Way too expensive

The first time I saw one I wanted one, and that hasn't changed. I would have one if they weren't so expensive

This guitar sounded good when I bought it 10 years ago and I kept it stock for a long time but I recently found WCR Pickups and stuck in a set of "Crossroads" ands all I can say is Holy #%*&! it is now the best sounding guitar I have ever heard, bar none!

the sound is great. it has a very smooth tone.

its made very well. its a bit on the heavy side, but that just shows it a high quality product.

yes it is definatley worth the price

rock

I love the sound of the pickups, they got a real clear sound and they have a bluesy sound and yet they sound great playing heavy music. The Mahohgany wood body and neck give the guitar a really nice overall warmth within the sound and the rosewood fingerboard is just really nice and when the string penetrates against the wood the tone it produces is just beautiful.

The fixed brigde allows the guitar to stay in great tune. its confertable to play but i would really love the guitar if it had an all access heel joint because I very often play in the higher frets while soloing.

Handmade......says it all

Worth every penny but could be cheaper (HaHa).....we all wonder...why can't we win the lottery (HaHa)

1 of my favourite guitars along with Ibanez RG's

the sound is extraordinary. contrary to what somebody else said (that it should be only for hard rock??) i think that the les paul can be used for almost any type of music...especially jazz. great sustain, great everything man!!

AWESOME~~~

its worth every penny

definitely the best. warranty guarantees repair

the guitar just looks damn good. the finish is awesome. i have the 2003 les paul...and this edition has the flames on the finish...so its like buying a les paul premium..for a lower cost

jazz, classic rock