![]() ![]() > Surprisingly, the guitar had balls too – probably helped by the Marshall. The notes really stand out: notes in chords blend together less. > VERY articulate, which you would expect with the maple. (Guitar Center clamps good cords to its amp racks.) Still, it won’t allow the best properties of the guitar or amp come out. I plugged it into a Marshall TSL combo – a surprisingly nice-sounding amp – using a dental-floss-thin cord that I assume Sam Ash hands out because they don’t care if people walk off with them. > Hardware: Grover Kluson-style green-button tuners, Zamak (zinc alloy) tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece. > 57 Classic pickups (Alnico II magnets). > 3-piece maple neck, even though Gibson says it’s mahogany in at least one spot on its website. ![]() > Carved maple top “attached with ultra-strong Franklin Titebond 50 glue” to a chambered maple body. Anything not listed here means it’s the same as a Les Paul Standard, and the Raw Power SG specs are basically the same. That being April Fools Day and the all-maple construction had half the world thinking that these guitars were a joke.īefore getting into the review, here’s a quick overview of the specs. ![]() So an all-maple Les Paul? Gibson announced these guitars and Raw Power SGs on April 1, 2009. If you’re unfamiliar with Les Paul construction, Les Pauls are supposed to be: mahogany body/maple top, mahogany neck, rosewood (usually) or ebony fingerboard. If you’re unfamiliar with these Raw Power guitars, they are all maple – yes, maple. I wanted to play one of the Epiphone “korina” Vs because they look so dang cool, but instead pulled down a Gibson Raw Power Les Paul Studio. (On the way there, my boy wanted to listen to Van Halen – he’s a good kid! – and I just kept saying to myself, “Don’t buy anything, don’t buy anything….”)Īfter listening to him bang on the drums for a while at Sam Ash, I made him take a break so I could check out the guitars (“don’t buy anything, don’t buy anything…”). So I sort of shrugged at my wife like, ‘Hey – I’m doing it for him,’ then ran for the car and took off! Yesterday my son wanted to bang on the drums at Sam Ash and Guitar Center, which are across the street from one another here in northern New Jersey. ![]()
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