If you are considering buying this one, you're obviously looking for a serious guitar. This one is the real thing. It's built perfectly. You can actually get beautiful sounds by adjusting the knobs. It will stay in tune for an entire set. Mine is several years old and has 490/498 pickups which are perfect for ANY music style short of hardcore metal, in which case there are probably better suited guitars for that music. Any other genre, from country, to blues, to hard rock, to punk, this is your axe. Bite the bullet and spend the cash. You'll never need another guitar.

I did own this product. The guitar looked amazing but weighed a ton. The neck was perfect and the body would fit snug against you. But I couldn't stand the pickups in the guitar. The quality of the guitar is there. If you are considering value. You are paying for a real guitar. They just need to put some real pickups in these things. I tore mine out and put in a set of Zack Wylde`s in. Then the guitar screamed like a banshee and sang like a angel. If you can afford it get it. It's one of the best guitars I've ever owned but you have been warned about the pickups. I believe if you pay that much for a guitar it should already come with a killer set of pickups. But you be the judge! Enjoy!

I paid an even 2 grand for my axe in 2004. You can see how much they are today. I have a trans amber. Absolutely gorgeous in every way. The way the frets blend smoothly into the binding is poetry. Strap her on and she nuzzles heavily against my hip, urging me to make her sing. I touch her strings and she starts pulling notes from my fingertips. Faster and faster my fingers fly over the frets, this Paul is practically playing herself as I hold her against my body. I am spellbound as this creation sings songs I have never heard before, it lives! I hope I was not just really lucky with this one and all Pauls have similar quality. But alas, I know better. I lucked into a one in ten thousand Les Paul Standard. Just went shopping for a 335 at a large music store. Could not believe what I saw were Gibsons. None of the silkiness, none of the mystique of my axe. So after checking out two dozen different Gibbies, I ordered an Epi Lucille from the good folks here. I do not know how many of these 2001 edition of the 60's neck Standards are left, but if you want a chance to own a liftime of joy, visual and sonic ecstasy, and an heirloom that increases in value, git you one before they are gone forever. The folks here will see that you get a good'n!