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Vintage Guitars and Basses => Gibson basses => Topic started by: finebass on February 26, 2008, 03:26:00 PM

Title: Gibson Faded Les Paul
Post by: finebass on February 26, 2008, 03:26:00 PM

Hi all,

I just purchased my first Gibson bass, a Faded Les Paul. I gigged with it last weekend and am very pleased- the tone is huge! Ergonomically, it is going to take a little getting used to- it obviously hangs a bit differently than my Fenders.

My question is about the finish...how should it be cared for? Will regular guitar polish do the trick or should I be applying wax?

Thanks in advance!

Title: Gibson Faded Les Paul
Post by: donnervogel on February 27, 2008, 11:25:01 AM

Wax. Regular polish will make it all shiny unless you want that effect. That said you will neither have to wax nor polish it that much if you play it a lot because your sweat will make it become more shiny in any case. The neck should already be shiny in a few weeks from now if you play it a couple of times a week.
 
Those Faded LPs are nice basses - compared to the other LPs they have their front pup a full inch closer to the neck adding some real ooomph.

Title: LP faded
Post by: finebass on February 27, 2008, 03:01:57 PM

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

The neck is already shining up nicely...I have gigged with it once and practiced with it every evening since I got it.

It has ooomph alright...very big sound...much different from the Fenders. Very cool growl with the neck pickup rolled off a bit.

Title: Faded LP
Post by: jules on February 28, 2008, 02:33:15 AM

Sounds good - are you going to record with it? Let us know - its always good to check out such things