1st Guitar

Sat down with my new (used) toy last night. Tuned it and plugged into my Fender Blues Junior amp. Had to have the volume turned down as people in the house were sleeping. 2 plus hours flew by before I knew it! Wow, this Thing sounded so good and so much fun to play. Looking forward to cranking it up a little bit. I was second guessing dropping the coin on it … but after noodling around on it last night and josesing to get back on it today … zero regrets. I thought my Epiphone Wildkat sounded good (still like that guitar), but this ‘96 Gibson Les Paul Studio almost embarrasses it.

That is a ridiculous good deal for that guitar. Nice find! I wasn’t so lucky finding mine for a price like that 🙂

Yeah, excellent points. Grover locking tuners are nice and playing with it for a while before making any changes is good advice. Thanks guys!

Thanks guys! Now that I’m done at work I can sit dow with it and really go over it and tune it. Looking forward to spending some time and playing it. Thing has some weight to it. So the question becomes … keep the Grover locking tuners that previous owner put on … or go out and get the original Kluson tuners and put them on.?

It has arrived! Just unpacked but haven’t had a time yet to tune it or plug it in. Probably will jam on it a little bit later tonight. The quick Once over seems pretty clean. Well thoroughly check it out later this evening.

I tend to agree on the buying used logic. I mean I can see the allure of new … opening a box with a brand new shiny toy, sure that’s cool. But of the six guitars that I own currently, 4 electric, 2 acoustic - only one of the acoustics was purchased new. Same for my 2 amps - both used. I have been pretty happy with my used equipment purchases to date.

Will do. Looking forward to getting it. Should be later this week.

Thanks for the quick replies on this. A little disappointed as I hoped the 1996 model had retained the Ebony fretboard. However I dropped some coin and ended up buying this 1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio Guitar. All original except for Grover locking tuners. I will consider restoring the tuners to original. I should have it by Wednesday or Thursday. Got to say, looking forward to it, even though I probably overpaid for it. That said, I will be in gear purchasing lockdown for a while.

Hi - I own an Epiphone Wildkat but currently looking at buying my first Gibson guitar, a 1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio. I have looking for a 1990-1997 studio models for sometime as my guitar guy tells me those are the years I should be focusing on. He feels those offer the most bang for the Studio models and price. He feels they are great guitars and the same guitar as the Standard those years minus push/pull pots and binding. Any thoughts on this? Also, are all the fretboard during this years ebony? He seemed to believe so but I have seen several for sale saying the are rosewood fretboards. Hopefully some one with more knowledge then me on this can help me out. I really can’t afford to drop a stack of cash on this and make a mistake. Thank you.