TS>        If you want to get a nice 2 'bucker guitar, 
 TS> ask Tom Engle what he can do for you on a G&L ASAT 
 TS> Deluxe or maybe even the semi-hollow version.
 TS>        As for the Les Paul Studio, play as many as 
 TS> you can if you are going to get one. I find the 
 TS> necks to feel like a 2x4. Something about them is 
 TS> too clubby, but not in a comfortable way like a 
 TS> SRV Strat's neck.
Well today I played 5 studio's at my dealer and I found that I really liked 
the ones that have the ebony fretboard but they are making fewer and fewer of 
them already with ebony. Actually Gibson is getting real sloppy with these 
guitars. These 5 guitars had 3 different types of knobs on them. I was 
shocked how they no longer seem to follow standard but just put on them what 
seems to be available. 
I don't want to look at a G & L as I had one already. It was a nice guitar 
but I traded it in. I did find one studio today that seemed to have the best 
neck and action of them all. But I must admit the ebony ones feel the nicest. 
 TS>        If you want a nice double 'bucker guitar, 
 TS> another option would be to get a Tex-Mex Tele 
 TS> Special or a California Fat Tele and put some form 
 TS> of Seymour Duncan single coil sized 'bucker in the 
 TS> bridge. The Tele Hot Rails or maybe even the Tele 
 TS> Lil' '59.
 I have a tex mex strat that had a humbucker in it and s single at the bridge 
but I pulled them out and put in a pair of vintage series pickups and am 
playing that guitar constantly now. I love the sound of it now that it has 
the vintage series in it and that is why I am now ready to go for the gibson 
as I want both sounds. 
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