andrewflour
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Hi guys, hope everyone of you is fine and in good health.
I have a LP dilemma
I have the possibility to purchase a 2005 VOS Jimmy Page CA les paul trading my 60th anniversary R0 together some good money for the seller.
The JP CA has always been my dream guitar since I was a kid.
But I think it's a totally WRONG guitar, by historic standards.
Today Custom Shop Les Pauls are very well made and I've been happy I acquired a nee one. The specs are the ones we all know:
- light resonant wood (3.9 kg, 8.6 lbs)
- hot hide glue for neck and top
- condomless truss rod
- anyline laquer that fade by exposing it to the sun/light
- 6/6 nylon nut
- double carve to shaping the maple top
- (finally!) correct hardware material
- vintage style logo (not really precise but it really looks like the vintage ones)
- the CustomBuckers have really cool paf-style covers and paf style sound
- V2 neck shape is AWESOME
It's the best new guitar I've bought. I have an early 69 LP Custom and a extremely hi-fi '59 Replica that teach me how an old guitar should sound.
The Jimmy Page CA VOS is beautiful, the guitar I've always dreamed of, pageburst on a less flay top, skinny and elliptical neck but...
- it's quite heavy... 4,4 kg ( 9.5 lbs )
- no hot hide glue but Titebond
- no double carving for the maple top
- Corian nut (horrible...)
- being a 2000's LP, brass studs for the stopbar ( instead of the steel ones)
- truss rod plastic tube
- the wiring is totally wrong (never accepted the out of phase wiring in the middle position and the useless bridge coil tap... Page is everything but this kind of setup!)
- no vintage style logo
The only pro that I can give to the JP CA is the high value that could achieve in the next few years. But is that so important?
With the money I should give the seller (together with the 60th anniversary) I could buy an original P.A.F. and original 50's hardware to customize my R0 or my 59 replica.
What do you guys think about this? What would you do in my case?
I link some pics of the JP CA VOS and my 60th anniversary LP
I have a LP dilemma
I have the possibility to purchase a 2005 VOS Jimmy Page CA les paul trading my 60th anniversary R0 together some good money for the seller.
The JP CA has always been my dream guitar since I was a kid.
But I think it's a totally WRONG guitar, by historic standards.
Today Custom Shop Les Pauls are very well made and I've been happy I acquired a nee one. The specs are the ones we all know:
- light resonant wood (3.9 kg, 8.6 lbs)
- hot hide glue for neck and top
- condomless truss rod
- anyline laquer that fade by exposing it to the sun/light
- 6/6 nylon nut
- double carve to shaping the maple top
- (finally!) correct hardware material
- vintage style logo (not really precise but it really looks like the vintage ones)
- the CustomBuckers have really cool paf-style covers and paf style sound
- V2 neck shape is AWESOME
It's the best new guitar I've bought. I have an early 69 LP Custom and a extremely hi-fi '59 Replica that teach me how an old guitar should sound.
The Jimmy Page CA VOS is beautiful, the guitar I've always dreamed of, pageburst on a less flay top, skinny and elliptical neck but...
- it's quite heavy... 4,4 kg ( 9.5 lbs )
- no hot hide glue but Titebond
- no double carving for the maple top
- Corian nut (horrible...)
- being a 2000's LP, brass studs for the stopbar ( instead of the steel ones)
- truss rod plastic tube
- the wiring is totally wrong (never accepted the out of phase wiring in the middle position and the useless bridge coil tap... Page is everything but this kind of setup!)
- no vintage style logo
The only pro that I can give to the JP CA is the high value that could achieve in the next few years. But is that so important?
With the money I should give the seller (together with the 60th anniversary) I could buy an original P.A.F. and original 50's hardware to customize my R0 or my 59 replica.
What do you guys think about this? What would you do in my case?
I link some pics of the JP CA VOS and my 60th anniversary LP