My father passed away a few years ago and I inherited his 1959 LesPaul Jr.
Life got very busy, Tornado hit the house and had to move while it was
being repaired along with various other things so the guitar just sat.
about 6 months ago I finally started to pick it up and play it.
Now I've played this guitar occasionaly through the years and it was
the first guitar I ever played growing up many years ago but he
always had it strung with flat wound 13's with a wound G string
so you can imagine was very difficult to play so I never gave
it much thought.
I finally strung it with 10's and once I got used to the frets being a little
low for my taste I couldn't put the thing down.
Words can't do it justice, the note bloom is incredible even acoustically, it's weird.
I still don't understand why this thing feels and sounds so good.
I've been through a lot of guitars in the last 40 years and this thing
is at a completely different level.
I feel very lucky but It's kind of bumming me out in one sense because I can't go out and buy a guitar today
that could compete with this. My R8, Heritage 535, Suhr stat and tele are going to get very lonely.
The neck profile is perfect, the P90 is so dynamic that I can completely control the sound with pick attack
and the volume and tone controls work like I'm controlling my stereo.
I've got boxes of pickups, bridges, tail pieces, pots, caps, treble bleads in my attempt to get what
this guitar just does.
Anyone else experience this with an old guitar?