This review is from: Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus Electric Guitar, Heritage Cherry SunburstI have the Iced Tea burst finish which, to me, looks very similar as to what is pictured here. I bought my Les Paul in 2009 and the Traditional was one of the only models at that time that was not chambered (i.e. the body is a solid block of wood). The 57 pickups are amazing and when combined with the nice solid body give you a great warm tone. The only modification that I have made to my Les Paul is to have a bone nut installed and the tuners changed. The bone nut helps keep the strings from binding and add to the tone a little. The tuners probably could have stayed after I changed the nut, but they make some very good "aged" locking tuners (I used Grover) to give the guitar a nice vintage look. I can not emphasize enough how important the PLEK system is to giving you an absolutely perfect fret dress and straight neck. I have all of my gigging guitars plecked by Joe Glaser in Nashville, and afterwards you can drop the action down to about nothing. It makes the guitar very, very playable without any buzzing at all. I know that most guitarists feel that the days of getting a decent instrument out of a major manufacturer are long past, but I have to say that I would not trade my Les Paul Traditional for a "vintage" model unless it was to sell it and then use the money to buy another Traditional and a private jet to get to the gigs faster....
This review is from: Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus Electric Guitar, Heritage Cherry SunburstI've purchased three Les Paul Traditional Plus during the last month and have returned each of them for full credit. Each guitar played like a dream and sounded equally good through a VibroVerb, Deluxe Reverb and a Sovtek Mig 50 into a 2X12. Sonically, they were knockout, no holds barred rock machines. Cosmetically, each were a TRAIN WRECK. The top on the bass bout was modestly figured - The figuring on the treble bout was non- existent. The bass bout on one took stain more deeply on the bass bout than the treble side. On each of the Traditional LP's one thing appears to be common - Gibson is using left over maple AA flame maple wood for the tops and is matching them as well as they can. Make no mistake - these are not book matched tops nor are they all single piece mahogany bodies. A AA Maple top is very tasty, however getting two pieces of nicely matched AA flame maple top on a single piece mahogany body out of the Gibson American shop appears to be difficult to obtain....
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