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This is the first Gibson I ever bought. 2018 Gibson Les Paul Standard in transparent Ebony burst. Guitar center exclusive finish. I picked this up back in 2019, immediately fell in love with it trying it out in the store. In typical Gibson fashion it seems, the pickups were harmonic. I ended up getting the bridge humbucker wax potted and left the neck alone. I like using the neck humbucker for cleans and it being slightly harmonic just has something about it when you play it that I couldn’t bring myself to change. Running the bridge pickup with gain and being harmonic was not feasible of course though. But it’s probably the most photogenic guitar I own. The humbucker covers were originally black but gigging and recording it and sweating on it has aged them to a more mellow black appearance. I dig the rosewood fretboard but always feel like if it was ebony it would have been the icing on the cake though. Anywho, anyone else out there have one of these?

Was in the studio a few weeks back to cut an album with my band. Used my 79 JMP 2203 for all the rhythm guitars. The JVM410 for leads, and my Roland JC-120 previously owned by Billy Duffy for all the cleans on the album. We ended up using the Matchless speaker for a lot of the JMP rhythm tones because it worked better than my Marshall cab for the mix. We used the Marshall cab with the JVM for leads. Looking forward to this album dropping later this year.

Took this pic packing these two guitars for a gig. One of my 2012 Gibson Les Paul traditional 12 strings, and my 2023 Gibson Les Paul custom black beauty. Really adore these guitars. Took both of them into the Suma Studios in Cleveland back in February to cut an album with my band.