trapland
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I got this a couple of weeks ago. I was looking at 5 year old threads about green guitars and showed my wife a few. She found this one and asked if i liked it. 
It came with all nickel hardware except the grovers were chrome! How the hell did Gibson Custom get that wrong? The dealer sent my replacements, probably cuz they didn't want thier green guitar back.
I know green guitars kick up a crapstorm of controversy here, but I like it. Others will too so I'm sharing. I have enough "traditional" Les Pauls, I wanted one that was different. With the electronics, its more of a Swiss army knife than anything else I have so why not make it crazy green? Its technically Iguana Burst, but it much less yellow in person than the photo shows. I prefer to call it MARGARITA burst, sounds more appetizing. It really fades from light green to darker green, and I can only see ANY yellow hue when it has blue near it. Next to my 60 Historic, the cherry sunburst is really yellow.
The neck is quite large. Its the largest neck I've ever owned, but not the largest Ive played. I played a 56? Historic goldtop that was huge and a 59 that was a bit bigger, but this one is pretty big. Compared to the "59 rounded" necks from the 1990s, its big. Its like mid to late 90s Historic size and feel. It may be too big for me, I prefer the 90s Gibson USA style 59 rounded although I have a 60 Historic from 2008 thats fairly flat with big shoulders that I like too. I MAY have someone I trust look into reshaping the neck. Hell, who cares if its modded, its a green guitar right? I'll decide after I have a few more hours playing time with it.
The thing sounds AMAZING! It has BB2&3 and its EVER so slighly hotter than my 60 Historic with BB1&2, but almost dead on identical in sound. I really like it. And with the coil taps and phase switch its got every LP sound I like. I played along with Led Zep Physical Graffiti through a PTP 72 Marshall and there wasn't a sound I couldnt nail. I didn't even have to pick up the Telecaster.
I like the electronics and pickup sound choices a lot. Very Jimmy Pagey.......except, what on earth was GC thinking with the pull pot as a kill switch?!?!?! Its the most useless thing ever. Was it thier way of making sure we always have a backup pullpot? If you use it for "stutter effects" like the website suggests, it will be broken in 2 minutes. Those pots cant handle that abuse. And as a mute? Come on, how did we ever manage the last 50 years?
I read that the newer "Standards" had a straight through pull pot to allow the pickup(s) to bypass the tone/volume network. That might be interesting. Or wiring the neck coils to be series out of phase or ANYTHING but a pointless kill switch. Ideas here?
It came with all nickel hardware except the grovers were chrome! How the hell did Gibson Custom get that wrong? The dealer sent my replacements, probably cuz they didn't want thier green guitar back.
I know green guitars kick up a crapstorm of controversy here, but I like it. Others will too so I'm sharing. I have enough "traditional" Les Pauls, I wanted one that was different. With the electronics, its more of a Swiss army knife than anything else I have so why not make it crazy green? Its technically Iguana Burst, but it much less yellow in person than the photo shows. I prefer to call it MARGARITA burst, sounds more appetizing. It really fades from light green to darker green, and I can only see ANY yellow hue when it has blue near it. Next to my 60 Historic, the cherry sunburst is really yellow.
The neck is quite large. Its the largest neck I've ever owned, but not the largest Ive played. I played a 56? Historic goldtop that was huge and a 59 that was a bit bigger, but this one is pretty big. Compared to the "59 rounded" necks from the 1990s, its big. Its like mid to late 90s Historic size and feel. It may be too big for me, I prefer the 90s Gibson USA style 59 rounded although I have a 60 Historic from 2008 thats fairly flat with big shoulders that I like too. I MAY have someone I trust look into reshaping the neck. Hell, who cares if its modded, its a green guitar right? I'll decide after I have a few more hours playing time with it.
The thing sounds AMAZING! It has BB2&3 and its EVER so slighly hotter than my 60 Historic with BB1&2, but almost dead on identical in sound. I really like it. And with the coil taps and phase switch its got every LP sound I like. I played along with Led Zep Physical Graffiti through a PTP 72 Marshall and there wasn't a sound I couldnt nail. I didn't even have to pick up the Telecaster.
I like the electronics and pickup sound choices a lot. Very Jimmy Pagey.......except, what on earth was GC thinking with the pull pot as a kill switch?!?!?! Its the most useless thing ever. Was it thier way of making sure we always have a backup pullpot? If you use it for "stutter effects" like the website suggests, it will be broken in 2 minutes. Those pots cant handle that abuse. And as a mute? Come on, how did we ever manage the last 50 years?
I read that the newer "Standards" had a straight through pull pot to allow the pickup(s) to bypass the tone/volume network. That might be interesting. Or wiring the neck coils to be series out of phase or ANYTHING but a pointless kill switch. Ideas here?
