It's a little disturbing when your current fanfare is something that everyone else had done before. However, if you stick to your roots & let others do whatever they wish to do, then you'd be prancing around, feeling a little accomplished with something like this 25.5" Les Paul. That's right, the 'long scale' here is not a baritone reference, just a regular 25.5" that would make everyone else say, "Been there, done that."
If you think a Les Paul can do better dwelling in a Strat scale length, then you'd need to know that scale length is the utmost consideration when it comes to fundamental tone (read Tony Bacon). Reducing a Strat to a Les Paul scale length or lengthening the LP to the Strat stretch will not emulate anything in terms of tone emulation (compounded by the neck-body attachment as well). The LP was conceived to be a landmark when it comes to humbuckers, set neck construction & the 24.75" scale length. So a variation in one of these considerations would somehow cause an upset in status quo. I'm not trying to put the LP fans off but do take note of this 'disturbance in the force' :-) If this scale length had proven to be beneficial to the LP in any case, then why now, Gibson?
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Bottom end needed to equal other 25.5 axes?
Request reached quota for production?
your guess is as good as mine.hehe
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