I was wondering what other vintage (especially) 50's and 60's Les Pauls weighed and how people believed it affects their tone. I have a 1953 Les Paul Standard I bought in 1977 which had already been recently converted. The changes were removal of Trapeze to later style bridge and tailpiece, refinished all over except front of head stock and from Gold Top to Black top, routed for humbuckers, and Schaller tuners. (In the 80's I had the pickups changed to Seymour Duncans and one of the pots was replaced for a single coil pull switch and like an idiot I didn't salvage the old one, so I'm in the market for a vintage '53 pot, tuners and perhaps 50's PAFs that I can afford).
The guitar plays and sounds fantastic. It weighs 9.03 pounds. Pics of mins are here. I was wondering what other vintage LPs weigh and how people feel it impacts the tone. Might be an interesting thread and I didn't see another like it on weights.
-Steve
The guitar plays and sounds fantastic. It weighs 9.03 pounds. Pics of mins are here. I was wondering what other vintage LPs weigh and how people feel it impacts the tone. Might be an interesting thread and I didn't see another like it on weights.
-Steve