"This Guitar Ive Been Playing And Love it Please Read My Comments."

Feature:
The Case the Strings the bridge and any other part on this is all great.

Quality:
Know the reason for a nine would be that the one i played was near the bridge it had a kind of a loose feel probably from been pounded on to hard by something USE YOUR MIND. But on the other side every thing else felt like it.

Value:
A little on the expensive sound but still worth the price if your rich

Desirability:
Defenitly the best looking guitar out there i played a goldtop that i can't find and will pay the same price if theyd sell me one used or whatever. but it looks great

Sound:
I've been playing for a good while with a garage band and we've gotten pretty good and this guitar while roaming the local music store I feel in love I'm ordering one in the near future because of the sound but don't have enough money.

Ease of Use:
Well the sound would be a pretty easy one to go from country blues rock and duh metal anything can be played from it.

Support:
No Comment wouldn't know

Overall:
Yes Go Gibson You Hit A HOME RUN. But seel the goldtop again.

"Great guitar"

Feature:
Well...it came with everything you would want in a Gibson, plyus a case.........could use a whammy bar though that'd be nice......

Quality:
Amazing quality, it aint a Gibson for nothing....I even had the luxury of dropping it once with nt so much as a scratch....

Value:
Amazing value....just a little expensive though.....would not say it is overpriced......

Desirability:
Hotter than my girfriend.........(don't tell her i said that)....no really.....ebony finish is cool on guitars.....awesome

Sound:
It is the typical Gibson rock n roll sound, a lovely warm distorted tone that gives me the goosebumps....

Support:
Never need it

Overall:
I won't need another guitar cuz i'll use this one forever.....

"I would have its babies if I could!!"

Feature:
Ok, no accessories except that wonderful pimp daddy pink lined case. The back is one piece mahogany, the maple top has started to check, following what I surmise is the grain lines in the maple top, implying that the cap was not 100% cured - but it just adds mojo!! My main complaint is the crappy inlay quality on the fingerboard. There is a 1mm gap filled with gorilla snot glue holding the mother of plastic fretmakers in place - surely this could have been avoided! the fretboard itself is a nice piece of rosewood with tight graining and not dried out like so many I see these days. But the poor quality of the inlay work really bugs me when everything else is just about perfect. All the hardware is superb, but it benefited from the upgrade to the CTS pots and bumblebees.

Quality:
As I stated earlier there are no quality probs except for the craptacular inlaying on the neck where the trapezoids are about 1mm smaller than the routed out holes for the inlay. Must have been made by an amateur - cannot understand how it slipped thru their q-control (which as we all know nowadays is pretty non-existant)

Value:
Absolutely - well, certainly the early Classics - dunno about the new ones - I would recommend you buy an old (1990-1992)second hand one - cannot comment on the new ones

Desirability:
YES YES YES!!! That carved top is like a sensual woman's body! All curves. It is an iconic design which performs as well as the day it was designed and will continue to do so. DOn'tbother with these silly "custom shop" jobs - just search around for a Classic - I prefer these to the Standards - the neck has about the best profile I have found (for me, obviously) and it just shouts "I am a quality instrument" when one plays it. You just know, from picking it up that you could stand in front of a crowd of 150,000 people and communicate with them all with the sound and soul of this axe.

Sound:
OK, not played A 1959 Standard, but I do know that my 1991 Classicthru my Marshall AVT50 and my little Brian May Vox gives me superb sustain and tonal range. Gutsy and classic when dirven (especially if i turn up the gain but not use the overdrive on the Marshall)and when I turn the tone controls down (CTS pots and bumble bees retrofitted) I can evoke a great jazzy feel. It has a sustain to rival a biblical patriarch lifetime, and is really sensitive to my feel that I want to get out. Thisguitar is very difficult to fault - even had the legendary Gary Moore play it (he was in the shop when I got it back from a set up) and he said "F***ing nice guitar you got there, mate!"

Support:
No real dealings - just enquiries regarding serial nos of other guitars - when I remarked on the poor inlays they were not in the slightest bit interested as I was not the first buyer.

Overall:
Never will sell it - nope. Will add to my collection, and have done, but this is my workhorse. I have played a lot of LPs and this one leaves them ALL standing, especially (considering the HUGE price) a Jimmy Page Custom shop job which had a crappy nck join.

"!!!!Gibson has got it correct!!!!"

Feature:
Nice sturdy case, good hardware.

Quality:
VERY STURDY!! I dropped it once and nothing happened, great finish, wonderful action, amazing hardware, nice case etc.

Value:
Could be cheaper but it's worth it.

Desirability:
Own it!

Sound:
Classic tone.

Overall:
I love this guitar, everything is amazing! I had an LTD Les Paul knock off and it was a nice guitar, but compared to this it dosen't stand a chance!

"Very Sexxxxxy!!!"

Feature:
Would have liked it better if it included a strap.

Quality:
The guitar was very well built, period!!!

Value:
Good value but the Standard is better for the buck.

Desirability:
The guitar is very motivating to play!!!

Sound:
Good sound but really heavy and chunky neck

Support:
Good support, out to please the cutomer.

Overall:
Good sound but the LP Standard sounds better for a few hundred more.