Love the gold-top; a mate of mine has an "Iced Tea" LP Standard, which looks fab and has a great sound - but it's just so damn heavy!  For that reason alone, I'll stick to the tele and variax.
(Ok, I know I'm a wimp!)

Yeah if a guitar is too heavy (and i mean TOOOO heavy) then I wont get it. But my Washburn X25 w/ Floyd Rose Bridge is like a lot heavier than most guitars so i guess im used to it

weight.....older Lp's used to out weigh fender strats.  I have a friend (pat) who just purchased a brand new LP custom.  he brought it over when I had the valvtronics amp. We spent the day playing around with guitar and amps. I told him I loved the tone of his LP but thought it outweighed my strat.. We got my bathroom scales out and weighed them..  To my surprise they were almost the same. 

 I am now saving money for a newer or older LP custom ( love the tone they  have) .

  Marino  I had a customized SG  when I was down in Dallas. I loved that guitar and it's tone.    It was one of the instruments that was stolen, and the reason why I am careful about posting  personal info up on the net. 

I would love to have the SG back and the hotrodded Marshall and Fender heads that Carl had built for us. Freakin theives.. Death to them all .    

Ahh man that sucks. id hate for that to happen! dont you have like insurance or something?
that just sucks man

If you play professionally , that includes bars, night clubs, paid parties, weddings, ect. ..... if you receive money ,
your music gear is not covered under your homeowners or renters insurance.  It is considered business and has to be under its own insurance.

 Insurance for band gear is expensive, lots of music gear is stolen all the time.  Bite the bullitt though and get some if your a working musician.

Also your recording gear may not be covered if your using it to record a working/ gigging band or any income is shown from the use of the recording gear.

man they reallly try to rip you off with all this stuff.
i dont travel much with my stuff so i should be fine....for now....

Yeah i dont travel much either but if i ever do in the future and if i ever get some EXPENSIVE equipement i would DEFINATELY get some insurance.

Yeah but if you get insurance youll be paying through your...nose?
I might have mixed up some...metaphors...or...something..there...

In any case It depends I guess.

I had a 59 goldtop connected straight into a Marshall tube amp 20 watts but a power of 140dbs or so....
The strings seem to play on their own. What a light weighted playing on this guitar.
One day I made a deal with a music shop to get a Fender Rhodes 88 with a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 amp (which you can hear in the "Enjoy The Pure" on PuppetXeno's account http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/4811.html) by exchange this guitar and amp.


Believe me I regret that deal after all this years being passed. And it hurts my little soul extremely...

Crying for my goldtop.... booooooaaaahhhh uuuuhhhh hoo hooooooo  whereever you are

Man why on EARTH would you trade that! I would kill for a setup like that.
Oh man...im sooo sorry.
But you know, you work with what youve got.

Sometimes people just dont realize how great what you have is, and you get something else but its worse than what you just had that you didnt have before. (I hope that didnt make sense)

ha! Nope no sense at all as usual criag. Well..as soon as you get out of Canada you can come over to my studio and we can record some stuff

I remember back in the 70's , I was still young then. you could find Les Pauls new for under $350.00  I traded a guitar I wished I still had. It was a 1964 Gibson ES345 , Red Sunburt, I traded it and gave them 100.00 for a Les Paul Black Beauty 3 pick ups in it.  I loved that guitar too. wished I still had it.  I know the guy that has it he said he sould sell it back to me for $3500.00   I said I bet you would.. lol  I am not paying that much for wood with strings on it.

ah yes but it is a beautiful piece of wood with strings on it.

zach....you just dont have a studio...i mean...my mixer is the closest thing to a studio that i have...you have...an ipod touch....thats not a studio...

WHAT???! WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO STUDIO????........ok... im kind of pushing it when i say studio.......whatever........we can use shanes studio up in trail dust town.

psshhh my studio could top his...hey wait a minute this thread is about les pauls...

But anyways Ill take that as an invite...i am so there