Rabs Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 Midtown Deluxe $2,499 http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/USA/Midtown-Deluxe.aspx Tuners: Grover Kidneys Headstock: Five-ply binding and genuine mother-of-pearl inlays Nut: Tektoid nut Inlays: Traditional block inlays Fingerboard: Richlite fingerboard Top: Quilted maple with seven-ply binding Body and neck: Hand selected mahogany Pickups: Bursbuckers humbuckers Electronics: Hand-wired controls Carrying case: Classic Gibson hardshell case Les Paul Redwood $3,999 http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/USA/Les-Paul-Redwood.aspx Step into History with exquisite tops made from Redwood trees that were fallen over a century ago. Tuners: Grover Locking Kidney tuners Nut: Tektoid nut Fingerboard: Thick Ironwood fingerboard Inlays: Mother-of-pearl traps Top: Redwood top Body and neck: Top graded solid Mahogany Pickups: 57 Classic and '57 Classic Plus humbuckers Electronics: Hand-wired Binding: Cream binding around body and neck Carrying case: Classic Gibson brown hardshell case Les Paul Standard Mahogany Top $2,499 http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/USA/Les-Paul-Standard-Mahogany-Top.aspx Tuners: Grover Locking Kidney Nut: Tektoid nut Fingerboard: Thicker rosewood fingerboard Inlays: Mother-of-pearl traps inlays Top: Solid mahogany Body and neck: Solid mahogany Pickups: Burstbucker Pro humbuckers Carrying case: Classic Gibson brown hardshell case
capmaster Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 Thank you for linking here, Rabs. In particular the ironwood fingerboard of the redwood-topped Les Paul and the mahogany-top Les Paul Standard look interesting to me. The thicker fretboard thing is funny though. More wood, less fret wire - who knows? Are the Midtown Deluxes' Richlite boards and the frets on them as always? Questions over questions...
Rabs Posted January 30, 2016 Author Posted January 30, 2016 The thicker fretboard thing is funny though. More wood, less fret wire - who knows? Are the Midtown Deluxes' Richlite boards and the frets on them as always? Questions over questions... Yeah who knows.. Im pretty sure its just marketing talk... As we have said, thicker than what? The laminated boards they were using a few years back? Thicker than a proper 59 standard? What are they comparing it too.. especially as I think they said that on the 2015s too.. So is it thicker than that ? Will fretboards end up one inch thick for extra sustain and tone ? :P :)
merciful-evans Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 I just looked up Ironwood on wiki and its a sort of generic term 'Ironwood is a common name for a large number of woods that have a reputation for hardness' Then goes on to list over 30 examples. I'm a bit surprised at the mahogany top LP. I imagine these to be all Custom Shop right?
capmaster Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 I just looked up Ironwood on wiki and its a sort of generic term 'Ironwood is a common name for a large number of woods that have a reputation for hardness' ... I'm just in it again. At least six of them could apply to the Coração de Negro of limited Les Paul Standard 2011 of mine. I still don't know exactly... ... I'm a bit surprised at the mahogany top LP. I imagine these to be all Custom Shop right? They are advertised as Limited Runs. The golden Les Paul MODEL script would say Gibson USA. Gibson Custom typically uses ochre for that.
merciful-evans Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 They are advertised as Limited Runs. The golden Les Paul MODEL script would say Gibson USA. Gibson Custom typically uses ochre for that. Ah! I see. Thanks Cap.
skilsaw Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 GAS Then I get a pain in the wallet. Kind of a reality check. The Canadian Dollar is currently $0.70 US, down from par a couple of years ago. And it isn't going to get better soon. Oil is just $30 a barrel, and the US has gone from being our best buyer of Canadian oil to a competitor. Maybe we should go back to trapping beaver and selling it to Europe so they could make hats. That was the start for Canada as a global trader and it lasted a couple of hundred years. Anyway. No new guitars for now.
pippy Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 My word! Apologies to those who hold a different aesthetic but both of those quilted Midtowns look like they suffer from a notifiable disease. I like the model, though. The Standard was a very fine-looking instrument and the Custom was simply gorgeous. The DeLuxe would be fine, too, without the bordello-grade wall-panelling. IMO, of course. Pip.
capmaster Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 ... The Standard was a very fine-looking instrument and the Custom was simply gorgeous. The DeLuxe would be fine, too, without the bordello-grade wall-panelling. IMO, of course. Pip. One can never know where they will get played. Or do you suspect certain changes of personal environments if they were used as wall art? ;)
quapman Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 Hey, whadya know,, new guitars. Crazy times we live in.
merciful-evans Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 My word! Apologies to those who hold a different aesthetic but both of those quilted Midtowns look like they suffer from a notifiable disease. Pip. I didn't want to be the first to say that, so thanks for doing so. Boils were never an attractive look.
btoth76 Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 The mahogany-top Standard is exciting. And it's solid. A solid Standard... Cheers... Bence
capmaster Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 The mahogany-top Standard is exciting. And it's solid. A solid Standard... Cheers... Bence No. The webpage says Modern Weight Relief under Specifications/Body/Back.
btoth76 Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 No. The webpage says Modern Weight Relief under Specifications/Body/Back. Yes. That's what I was looking at. First, it says: "Body and neck: Solid mahogany". Then: "Weight Relief: Modern". Cheers... Bence
buliwyf Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 OK I'm a LP lover but enough with new and different models,I'm confused enough.Just my humble opinion but i liked it better when there were 5 or 6 models and a few different colors and pu choices.I also realize prices go up but 2400 bucks for a plain top LP is a bit much IMHO. I had one someone stripped to a sweet plain top and used it was only 1200 for a std,maybe used is the way to go. I do dig the redwood one and yea it's special for a lp but like I said I'd be happier with fewer LP choices and hi prices.
capmaster Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Yes. That's what I was looking at. First, it says: "Body and neck: Solid mahogany". Then: "Weight Relief: Modern". Cheers... Bence I think it's time to be more honest in this respect. There should be more clarity what is a solid-body guitar and what is not. Fender's Mexican "bathtub" routings make my Strats and most of my Teles semi-solids as well as weight-relief does three of my Gibson Les Paul guitars.
badbluesplayer Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 It seems like Gibson is making lots of guitars this year with quilted maple tops. They must have found a whole new forest of deformed maple trees somewhere just outside of Nashville - probably next to a nuclear plant under the power lines.
Mr. C.O. Jones Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 It seems like Gibson is making lots of guitars this year with quilted maple tops. They must have found a whole new forest of deformed maple trees somewhere just outside of Nashville - probably next to a nuclear plant under the power lines. I wan't one! But only if it glows on the dark.
'Scales Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I'm trying to recall ever meeting a chick named Jane who was a stunner... but I can't. Weird.
capmaster Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I'm trying to recall ever meeting a chick named Jane who was a stunner... but I can't. Weird. Others obviously did:
Tman Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 Today I am obsessed with that Ocean Water Midtown deluxe. Damn. Wow. Need a cold shower.
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