Virtual guitar build - Steve Vai Les Paul???

[Patriot54]

This is just for fun - I'm not really building this.....but I wish I was

VIP: Vai Inspired Paul  :toothy12:

I think black binding around the body and/or pickguard would complete this guitar. And I think I've angered the guitar gods by putting a monkey grip on a LP.  :help:

 

[Doughboy]

Very nice. I wonder why Ibanez doesn't have any Les Paul copy models. I can see this model selling really well if it was put out as a ltd edition.

 

[kboman]

Cardinal Richelieu says:

"Abomination!"

 

[OzziePete]

That would be one very thick 'monkey grip'!  :laughing7:

I like white LPs done tastefully, and the rest of it is OK to me....

 

[Mor Paul]

Very nice. I wonder why Ibanez doesn't have any Les Paul copy models. I can see this model selling really well if it was put out as a ltd edition.

Because they did. And they made them too well. And got sued. Look up lawsuit ibanez les pauls.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Very nice. I wonder why Ibanez doesn't have any Les Paul copy models.

They moved on. *running for cover*

 

[dmraco]

flat top?

 

[bagman67]

Ibanez is making a pretty decent Les Paul style guitar now (see:  Artist series).  The fit'n'finish, at the price, is pretty awesome (as is true for virtually everything else they make at the low-to-medium price point).

 

[nexrex]

Very nice. I wonder why Ibanez doesn't have any Les Paul copy models. I can see this model selling really well if it was put out as a ltd edition.

Because they did. And they made them too well. And got sued. Look up lawsuit ibanez les pauls.

Yep, a friend has one of the 1970's ibanez les paul studio copies. Direct copy of the gibson version. It is one mighty fine guitar.  :laughing7:

 

[swarfrat]

I had a lawsuit Ric copy. Every bit as weird and dysfunctional as the real deal, I can see why they got sued.

I don't care for the monkey grip on strats either, but I do think it looks especially weird on an LP. If I had the bug for such an idea, I think I'd try a little harder to make it fit the LP profile. That one looks a bit fragile. Consider either incorporating more of the LP's sharp waist in the handle (and keeping a bit of beef in the outside edge), or else moving it out of the waist into the lower bout where there's a lot more meat to play with.

 

[OzziePete]

Very nice. I wonder why Ibanez doesn't have any Les Paul copy models. I can see this model selling really well if it was put out as a ltd edition.

Because they did. And they made them too well. And got sued. Look up lawsuit ibanez les pauls.

Yep, a friend has one of the 1970's ibanez les paul studio copies. Direct copy of the gibson version. It is one mighty fine guitar.  :laughing7:

Played a few of them before they became known as "lawsuits".....compared side by side to the Gibson LP of that same time, Ibanez's offering was at times eerily better. Suddenly the Ibanez copies disappeared from the shops, and then a while later they got more into original designs of their own. I think they (Ibanez & Yamaha) proved the point that the Japanese guitar makers could do as good a job at making them. But back then (1970s) Gibson were going thru some horrid QC issues....oh wait  :sad1:

Ibanez is making a pretty decent Les Paul style guitar now (see:  Artist series).  The fit'n'finish, at the price, is pretty awesome (as is true for virtually everything else they make at the low-to-medium price point).

I do rate the Ibanez Artist series of guitars. Their jazzers and rockabilly archtops are quite tasty and good for the price.  :icon_thumright:

 

[Patriot54]

flat top?

Yeah - I'd make it a flat top to accomodate the grip, and add forearm and tummy contours  :headbang1:

 

[swarfrat]

But back then (1970s) Gibson were going thru some horrid QC issues....oh wait  :sad1:

Who says they don't make em like they used to?

 

[line6man]

On a related note, Les Paul signed the backside of EVO in 1995, and then resigned it after the message faded in 1998.

 

[Superlizard]

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Shouldn't those pickups be pink and green?

 

[line6man]

:icon_scratch:

Shouldn't those pickups be pink and green?

Not on a white guitar.
Pink and green are for the ridiculous '80s JEMs.

 

[dNA]

I have an Artist from 3 years ago and I love it. Two years ago they changed the aesthetic and styling of the Artist line and they're making mostly ones that are more geared towards their metal crowd rather than ones that have that classy, vintage kind of look. It's a disappointment to me. If they kept making ones like this I think they'd catch on.

But they have a tendency to discontinue models after only 2 or 3 years if they don't move big numbers so it never sticks.




as for that thing you designed.... err. I mean. That guitar.

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