Overall, I give this guitar a 10 out 10 for quality/tone/feel and value. If you want an HP model but don't want to pay 3k, you can call Sweetwater, get a little bit of a discount and pay around $1500 to $1600 for a guitar that will most definitely satisfy your gas urge for a one of these beauties.

You don't really even think about it until you go back to a Lester that doesn't have the easy access heal. The easy access heal to the upper frets is a very nice feature that I think they should start using on all Les Paul's. I mean you really don't hear a thing which is something you're really not use to and sometimes have to blow the dust out of your selector so it's quieter. The silent switch is very cool, you can't hear anything when switching between the 3 different pickup selections. Anywhere I move on the neck for chords are perfectly in tune as well as lower D chords with my slightly heavy fingering is perfectly in tune. The guitar came setup perfectly, with nice action, perfect intonation and no fret buzz what so ever. The neck I thought might be a bit wider than I like, since I love the 60's Slim Taper necks, but it plays/feels really good and I have no problem moving around on it. None of my guitars have this much range in tone, and they sound great. These pickups are very responsive to changing the volume as well as the tone controls having a very large range of tones from very trebly to very bassy and everything in between. This Studio HP is in a whole different range compared to my older Studio's and my 60's Tribute.ДЄll I can say is WOW! The pickups on this guitar sound fantastic, with the 490R at the neck position and 498T+ in the bridge position. I have had Studio's in the past and they are really nice guitars, even my 60's Tribute is a very fine instrument that plays/feels great.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this is a Studio, it feels and plays like a higher end Gibson all the way through and through.

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