Ad_02Std
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I know how much you guys love a rambling story so... :wah
A friend of mine recently sold his '88 PRS because he decided he liked his '03 Les Paul Standard better. So with a small portion of the cash he got from the PRS he bought a 97 LP Studio as a backup to his main Les Paul. After playing it for about a week he decided he liked the sound of the Studio over the Standard, and that this was the fault of the Burstbucker Pros (probably not entirely untrue, as I found with mine). I do his tech work for him, so he handed me the Studio and the Standard and told me to pull the pickups from the Studio and put them in place of the Standards BBs.
I got home and took the Studio out of it's case; it was covered with grime and the strings were ancient, plus it was in need of a set-up. It hadn't been modded (apart from straplocks), but it had been played hard and displayed a number of moderate sized dinks and bumps - looked like it had been dropped a few times. Out of curiosity, and before I took the soldering iron to it, I plugged it in to my little Laney LC15R, and something magic happened - this little Studio had got some seriously nice tone to it. I couldn't stop playing for long enough to do the pickup job, and the more I played it the more I fell in love with the damn thing!
Bollocks to it! I took off the old strings, scrubbed the dirt off, polished it and gave it some new strings and a set-up. Plugged it back in. Magic. Just magic.
So now I just can't bring myself to part the pickups out of it. In fact I'm going to advise him to leave well alone. Messing with this little gem would be a huge mistake! I'll source some appropriate pickups for his Standard and when I've got the cash together I'll make him an offer he can't refuse on the Studio.
Anyway, all this got me thinking - The Les Paul Studio doesn't get nearly enough praise round here. How many times do you walk into a venue and see a guitarist strumming, chugging or wailing on a Studio? There's one in every other band where I come from! The punks love them. The rockers love them. The bluesers love them. The metallers love them. The indie crowd love them...
So let's hear it for the Les Paul Studio!
(That's your cue to post a photo.)
Here's the one I've been gushing about, in all it's new found shiny glory.
Adam
A friend of mine recently sold his '88 PRS because he decided he liked his '03 Les Paul Standard better. So with a small portion of the cash he got from the PRS he bought a 97 LP Studio as a backup to his main Les Paul. After playing it for about a week he decided he liked the sound of the Studio over the Standard, and that this was the fault of the Burstbucker Pros (probably not entirely untrue, as I found with mine). I do his tech work for him, so he handed me the Studio and the Standard and told me to pull the pickups from the Studio and put them in place of the Standards BBs.
I got home and took the Studio out of it's case; it was covered with grime and the strings were ancient, plus it was in need of a set-up. It hadn't been modded (apart from straplocks), but it had been played hard and displayed a number of moderate sized dinks and bumps - looked like it had been dropped a few times. Out of curiosity, and before I took the soldering iron to it, I plugged it in to my little Laney LC15R, and something magic happened - this little Studio had got some seriously nice tone to it. I couldn't stop playing for long enough to do the pickup job, and the more I played it the more I fell in love with the damn thing!
Bollocks to it! I took off the old strings, scrubbed the dirt off, polished it and gave it some new strings and a set-up. Plugged it back in. Magic. Just magic.
So now I just can't bring myself to part the pickups out of it. In fact I'm going to advise him to leave well alone. Messing with this little gem would be a huge mistake! I'll source some appropriate pickups for his Standard and when I've got the cash together I'll make him an offer he can't refuse on the Studio.
Anyway, all this got me thinking - The Les Paul Studio doesn't get nearly enough praise round here. How many times do you walk into a venue and see a guitarist strumming, chugging or wailing on a Studio? There's one in every other band where I come from! The punks love them. The rockers love them. The bluesers love them. The metallers love them. The indie crowd love them...
So let's hear it for the Les Paul Studio!
(That's your cue to post a photo.)
Here's the one I've been gushing about, in all it's new found shiny glory.
Adam
