Close-up pics of my Gibson USA LP Studio guitar.

[andrewdosborne]

Awesome LP DC Pabs.

[wokkaboy]

nice DC Pabs, never knew you owned one. That control cavity must be long, the control knobs are further apart from a standard LP config. Are they P90 pickups ? Sound good ?

[pablopepper]

Yeah they are P90s. Love the neck pickup, creamy and sweet. The bridge pickup is a bit honky for my tastes. Always planned on swapping it out for a soapbar sized humbucker, but never found the right one at a decent price. Better off for me to offload it stock though. Plays fantastically, but has been out of it's case about 3 times in as many years (for annual string change and clean up) so time to go.

[wokkaboy]

yeah if your not playing it might as well sell it for more kits

[stan]

sweet gibbo Pabs, this is the time being a lefty doesnt pay....

[keloooe]

Nice LP Pabs! I've seen Gibbos drop of in QC recently but the tuning still holds up somewhat well, my band's frontman has a Gibbo SG and even when he detunes to Drop D for half our set and back up each and every rehearsal and gig, it holds up fine. When he ricks up to rehearsal or gigs it's pretty much dead in tune so thats a plus!

[DrNomis_44]

My 2008 LP DC is hands down the most stable guitar I have ever owned.



Gibson QC might have gone down hill in the past decade or so, but the only thing I can find wrong with this thing is the serial number is improperly stamped.

Geez, that's a real sweetie of a guitar you've got there pablopepper, one of these days I'll have to build a Gibson style guitar with P90 pickups so I can give them a try, I've heard that the tone of P90 pickups lies somewhere between single coil strat pickups and humbuckers.

[DrNomis_44]

I've just finished changing out the Corian nut on my LP Studio to a Graphtech Tusq XL nut, it all seems to have gone pretty smoothly, the Corian nut wasn't nearly as hard to get out as I thought it was going to be, I used a coping saw to saw a thin trench almost to the bottom of the Corian nut lengthwise then I used a pair of pliers to gently squeeze the two halves of the nut together, then it was simply a case of removing the pieces of the nut leaving the bare nut trench, I didn't even need to lean out any remaining nut material, all I had to do next was sand down the bottom of the new nut till I got the first-fret action correct, it took a bit of time but I got there in the end, all the strings on the LP Studio are free from Sitar-Buzzing and the guitar seems to sound a bit more tuneful.

[Brendan]

Both of these look like great guitars! Looks like Gibson have done a nice job on both of them!

[DrNomis_44]

Just had a thought, since my LP Studio was born (manufactured) on the 5th August 2013, that makes her a Leo (Starsign), interesting cause I'm a Virgo (31st August 1969).