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[jimrs]

As before I am asking about other than a Les Paul, but I got a lot of good advice on the last one. I still don't have my guitar back from the shop yet.

Next project, I have a wife that hates the sound of my Strat, she likes that woody bass of a hollow body guitar. I started playing my Ventura hollow body a few days ago, but I don't like it much.
I replaced the strings and they sold me cable not strings, real heavy 4 wound, I think 11-5?. This guitar has real small frets and it's a bugger to play. I think that I will go get some smaller strings.
The question is should I get a fret job on this guitar. I have had it for 24 years and it's a cool looking guitar but I have never liked the way it played. After reading all the posts in this forum I think that I can salvage it by changing frets, and doing the same to it that I am doing to the Epiphone. Change all the jap electronics to
duncan, tvjones, someone else? This is a copy of a Gibson L5 jass
guitar and looks the part. It's 24 years old and looks like new. I don't want to sell it but would like to have it play and sound better. They are no longer made but It was not a cheap guitar, I paid $695.00 for it in 1977. Do you think it would be worth it to
spend 300.00 to 400.00 to have it redone?

 

[Snags]

I had an old Hohner Les Paul copy that had almost nonexistant frets. I used 9-42 strings on it and (to use that horrid term) it 'played like butta'. Heavier strings didn't work on that guitar. I'd spend a few bucks on some lighter strings and see how it feels.