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R6 VOS Gold Top weighing in at 9.7lbs??

Sol

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I love posts like this where the OP gets the benefit of the TLPF combined experience, I've nothing to add, but I recall
Joe Bonamasser explaining that the lighter weight bursts have now been moved on in favour of weightier examples he prefers the tone of.
 

Sol

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I have a '96 Les Paul Special double cut in TV Yellow. Made for around a year as a' 59 reissue, replaced with the Historic '60 reissue in' 98.

My Special comes in at 8lb, For a double cutaway that's heavy, oh by the way friends it has an abr-1 bridge.. However, good enough for Collings good enough for me I guess.

Days after buying it I was in a Welsh recording studio. Its performance in playback had us floored, it was assumed that the Les Paul Standard would be the better contrast to the Telecaster used through a vintage Fender Twin by the bands guitarist, but those P90' s Mahogany, and Vox AC30 sat in that mix so well we regretted leaving the Special on its stand so late in the recording process.

The question here is; would a 7lb DC Special have gone to tape better?
Of course It's an unanswerable question, within the music itself, the only context that really matters, the weight of a guitar is irrelevant.
Its the verse and chorus, not the pounds and ounces that really count.
 

222tweed

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Its the verse and chorus, not the pounds and ounces that really count.[/QUOTE]

one of my favorite albums is by Genesis ...Selling England by the Pound
 
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Sol

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Its the verse and chorus, not the pounds and ounces that really count.

one of my favorite albums is by Genesis ...Selling England by the Pound[/QUOTE]

Have I accidentally quoted from a Genesis song ?
 

RockinRobert

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I had a real 55 GT for about 15 years. It weighed a ton. Never weighed it but it had to be 10lb or more.
 
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