I'm stating my experience with historic vs standard LP's and my ear hears a more open and resonant sound with long tenon historics. My $.02, that's all. You anti-historic folks remind me of a band audition where the other guitarist was eye-balling me carrying in Marshall and Fender tube amps and my old echoplex and said why do you need them old tube amps, my Randalls solid state and sounds just fine :bonk If you can't notice a difference in sound & feel then fine, buy a plywood epiphone and stop whining :sour