Is the les paul junior crap or genius?

[df]

Like, can't you do something else even on a Billie Joe signature axe?

 

[ciel]

WHAT !!! only green day..?!

Anybody heard of Leslie West !?!! Mississippi Queen anyone...?!


















................. a hell of a tone.....

bro bro they only hear of bille joe nowadays.
Leslie west of mountain and missisippi queen is the rocks.

 

[kerplunk182]

i have an lp jr and i think its awesome. Cause the les paul is too heavy and expensive for me. I run it through an ME-50. So i modify the tone. And i get the fat classic les paul tone. 8)

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

Well, if I were to get the Epiphone LP Junior purely for its looks, I'd also save up to upgrade 4 main areas:

1. tuners (get those that are at least die-cast)
2. pickup (preferably an SD Phat Cat?)
3. bridge (Leo Quan Badass should do the trick)
4. Nut (switch to brass or bone)

And to top it off, drop a few droplets of lacquer into the screw holes at the bolt-on neck-joint area plus add a wee bit of candle wax to the screws to prevent any moisture entering and swelling at the neck joint.

Then again the overall cost after modding might not be worth it's weight in tone. :roll:

 

[Everdying]

then add on a maple cap.
put in an extra humbucker.
add in trapezoid inlays.

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

haha read carefully: purchasing the LP jr ONLY for the looks!

from far all those mods I mentioned cannot be identified one :wink:

 

[phantom_killer]

would have to cut the guitar to add in the extra humbucker...haha.

but seriously the guitar is quite pretty. maybe nicer than the les paul standard in simplicity sense...the straightfoward "i wanna rock" look.

 

[trianglebiscuit]

simple no frills p-90 guitar.

and im fine with bj(slut) using it.

 

[edder]

leslie west is a mountain!!!!

 

[ShredCow]

ugh.

Single pickup?

I'll do an EVH anytime....

 

[df]

mattlesc, what's wrong with BJ?

 

[seanydon]

I think the LP Jr is a very good guitar in it's own right. Rather economical compared to the "real" les pauls and the sound for the P-90 pup is unlike any other. It's a shame that Gibson has concentrated marketing strategy is making Billie Joe the "sole endorser" of the guitar. Give is a very "punk only" image, which is not totally true because like all the previous posts have said, this guitar can be used for blues, indie and stuff...

 

[rottenramone]

..

i like the SG Jr too. brilliant shape, simple cut and design. there was one on sale IIRC

 

[subversion]

the LP junior doesn't magnify the manufacturer's brilliance, neither does it underscores their stupidity. when it was conceived, it was an answer to economy- in cost but not in tone. despite its quirk, it still fulfills certain tonal requirements.

 

[guitarnub]

PRS stoptail works the same way. You intonate it according to the low E and high E strings via 2 set screws and the rest of the strings will fall into place with proper intonation accordingly. Less moving parts = less loss in string vibrational energy = less loss in tone - supposedly.

PRS's style stoptail makes more sense than that weird bridge on the LP junior, I mean for the LP, there's no different offset positions for the intonation, its just one straight line.

this one is from PRS

and this one from an LP JR

 

[Everdying]

PRS bridge - modern design.
that LP jr bridge is obviously a older design.

the modern LP jr bridge is different.
damn thing sells at USD749 on musician's friend now.

 

[subversion]

the initial generation GIbson stoptail is devoid of intonation ridges but that's not the case for the current manifestation (as pictured above). we have to keep in mind that the PRS designs are improvements of the tried & tested implementations, if it's not better than the archaic inventions then the PRS people are wasting $$$ in R&D.

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

Somehow I'm getting more and more interested in that PRS single-cut, single-pickup model. But then again.. I'm also spying out the Squier 51.

 

[subversion]

oh- the PRS SE One, yes? i requested this in the next Davis shipment 8) will alert you when it's here...

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

*drool*.. but but.. the pickguard looks a little weird

nehbermind... got one pick-up, got mojo! Time to bring out the bowie in me!