Marketing at it's finest. The copies have been doing this for decades.

How would gibson purists accept this?

Oh yes.. I just read..


These f*cking idiots in Gibson are forcing their robot tuners (min-Etune/G-Force) on everyone.


They completely butchered their 2015 les paul standards.

They're going after the moronic ipad/iphone generation clueless kids who probably don't find playing electric guitar to be cool at all.


I've never seen a guitar company sunk so low with forced overpriced features on their customers.


These surface mount electronics on the tuners are not gonna last at all. Guaranteed. No resale value and no one is going to repair those electronics without necessary spare parts, 20-30 years down the road.


They've completely lost the plot. May even arrive at the stage where the fake les pauls actually is more worth the money than buying an original gibson les paul. *lol*

I don't own any gibsons but i have copies.


Even as someone who don't own one, I feel the wider neck will completely kill the les paul feel.


The other problem is the embedded hologram sticker behind the headstock, that is not removable because it is under the nitro finish.

That's so hideous, ugly, cheap, insulting to the brand and also to the late Les Paul.


Seriously, they need to kick out Henry, the ceo of Gibson. He is a complete sociopathic asswipe. He will ruin the company sooner or later.

The best les pauls for the money isn't made by gibson.

I think the Agile AL-3200 is decent considering the neck through design and better higher fret access.


Too bad no stores in Malaysia or Singapore carry that model.

It is what a new model from gibson should've been though.

The use of PCB in the recent les pauls are a joke.


Copper traces in a pcb are thin and prone to corrosion. No guarantees they will last decades.


I've got a less than 10 year old pedal that went bad because the copper trace on the pcb corroded, and luckily I managed to trace the signal path and jump it with a tinned copper wire.


Traditional handwiring is the way to go and easy to trace/repair compared to PCBs.

This post has been edited by RiddleMeThat: Jun 28 2015, 07:51 AM

I just scored a used rally GL-400 for about sg280 with duncan SH6 distortion mayhem set neck and bridge.

This damn thing is really heavy compared to my samick av3. Definitely no weight relief or chambered.

After some cleaning/maintenance work and resetup action, it plays nice and holds in tune. Previous owner couldn't string for nuts, that's why it kept going out of tune. After cleaning the nut with graphite, bridge, and rewounding the string, now it holds tune.

Also had to reseat the stoptail bushing with some hot glue, typical china guitar, since bushings are not pressed all the way into body and never glued. It was not flushed and slightly out of the body under string tension, but possibly also due to the softer version of 'mahogany'.

Cleaned the fret board, and polished fret with autosol. Smooth as butter now and the frets.... damn frets... were like... underutilized.. It's like a new guitar, no pits/dings in any of the frets...

Some minor finish crack due to wood moving. Overall, not bad. The pickups alone are worth it.