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Taekwondoin:
I wouldn't touch a Les Paul with a barge pole, I'd go swede all the way if I was looking for a solid body single cut. Fuck paying £1500 for a gaudy les paul in honeyburst...
IDMG:
I dunno, the Hagstrom Swede I've played just felt weird. Most bizarre neck profile ever.
Taekwondoin:
--- Quote from: IDMG on 14 Jan 2014, 01:56 ---I dunno, the Hagstrom Swede I've played just felt weird. Most bizarre neck profile ever.
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How so? Too thick/thin? Weird shape?
Chad K.:
I have a Hagstrom Viking, and it is one of my favorites guitars. When i first got it, I also thought the neck was weird, but now I love it. Hagstroms have a proprietary "H" shaped truss rod that keeps them from twisting and makes it hard for them to bow. As a result, they can make the neck thinner. They are not Ibanez wizard neck thin, but they are far more narrow than a Gibson. They also have very little taper, and a resin fretboard that feels a lot like ebony. Couple that with medium jumbo frets, and you have a neck that takes a little while to get used to.
Here's the thing for me- the larger frets make it very easy to figure out where I am on the neck without looking down. Also, once you are used to the thinner neck profile, it's crazy comfortable and easy to get around on, since you could barely fit a credit card between the strings and the frets and still have no buzz. Plus, I haven't had to set the neck in a year and a half. The truss rod is that good.
KingOfIreland:
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I think about mine. The thing is that it can get slightly hard to play up past the 16th fret, but you know, it's not a neck thru and the cutaway isn't that huge. It also has a perfectly sculpted taper just like a strat, so it's definitely more comfy than a les paul, even if it is as heavy. Something about the stop tail piece gives them absolutely huge sustain as well. They're perspex mounted, so you'd think it'd have the opposite effect, compared to the standard gibson tun-o-matic setup, but I guess it just sends more of those good good vibes through the actual bridge this way.
I also like how mine (although there's different model variations obviously) doesn't have binding. It's like the les Paul Studio of my dreams. All I want is another but with P90s and a stereo out
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