Oh Lordy, Coda are selling new 54 Reissue Les Paul Customs..

equalsql · July 2021

My absolute dream guitar.. but close to £6K, yikes

Mrs equalsql would cut my heart out with a spoon if I picked up one of these.

What's one to do?

https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/gibson-custom-1954-les-paul-custom-reissue-40129.html

sweepy · July 2021

say its a Chibson

brucegill · July 2021

£6k?!?!?!

roberty · July 2021

Fucking bastards. Doesn't mean I don't want one though. For that kind of money I'd rather see if @Danielsguitars or @IvisonGuitars could knock one up

jonnyburgo · July 2021

You can pick one up, just don't fuckin buy it!

TTony · July 2021

equalsql said:

Mrs equalsql would cut my heart out with a spoon if I picked up one of these.

What's one to do?

Hide all the spoons.

Hottubes · July 2021

Ahh the Rock around the clock guitar.

Always wanted one of these after seeing Bill Haleys guitarist use one in the movie.

He is playing through a tweed twin i think in the movie. What a set up.

axisus · July 2021

I couldn't be interested in a guitar with that price tag. £2k was always my ceiling, although I only ever went near that once.

JayGee · July 2021

It’s lovely, and I’ve seen much less desirable things at that price point, but still far too speedy for me…

And another thing, I notice the spec describes both pickups as custom Soapbar P90s - does this mean they’ve cheaped out and just put a fancy cover and funky pole pieces on the neck pickup? - at that price I’d be expecting a reasonable attempt at the genuine item…

Hattigol · July 2021

I had the Epi version of this which sells for around £500. Great guitars.

Danielsguitars · July 2021

roberty said:

Fucking bastards. Doesn't mean I don't want one though. For that kind of money I'd rather see if @Danielsguitars or @IvisonGuitars could knock one up

Don't worry got a vintage modern burst and custom planned but my new flat top burst is really kicking arse, I've compared it to a full carved burst of mine and not much in it tbh and mine weighs under 7.5lb
They're all getting fully sculpted on the back.

Brize · July 2021

I was very tempted when I saw those come into stock (Coda have two VOS and one aged), but the price is just insane. Ten years ago you could buy those for £2,800.

Danielsguitars · July 2021

While these prices are getting increasingly insane it makes small makers look much better value so hopefully people start looking at better alternatives

impmann · July 2021

£6k…. Mental.
Sorry but for me that price is unjustifiable

Ossyrocks · July 2021

I would dearly love a Custom like that, but the money is just madness.

Think about what you could buy for that. For less money you could buy a clean original 60’s 335.

Rob

HandwrittenHero · July 2021

Ossyrocks said:

I would dearly love a Custom like that, but the money is just madness.

Think about what you could buy for that. For less money you could buy a clean original 60’s 335.

Rob

Might want to check the more recent prices on vintage I’m afraid.

Danielsguitars · July 2021

Ossyrocks said:

I would dearly love a Custom like that, but the money is just madness.

Think about what you could buy for that. For less money you could buy a clean original 60’s 335.

Rob

Yes but I sold a carved top burst to a guy last year with quite alot of vintage guitars Inc both slab board and laminate 60s strats, 59 335 etc and it's my guitar that's out permanently because he loves it, just sold him 2 more builds too and my lightweight will be his gigging guitar

You have to try guitars out and see what's best for you, I genuinely don't lust after vintage stuff anymore, investment or so called mojo etc are a different thing.

Musicman20 · July 2021

axisus said:

I couldn't be interested in a guitar with that price tag. £2k was always my ceiling, although I only ever went near that once.

Aye similar for me. I'd stretch to 2.5k if it was absolutely insane.

Ossyrocks · July 2021

HandwrittenHero said:

Ossyrocks said:

I would dearly love a Custom like that, but the money is just madness.

Think about what you could buy for that. For less money you could buy a clean original 60’s 335.

Rob

Might want to check the more recent prices on vintage I’m afraid.

The reason I said that is because I own a clean original 60’s 335, bought less than two years ago, for quite a bit less money than this ^ guitar. Have vintage prices really gone up that much?

HandwrittenHero · July 2021

I don’t have the limit as such, but there is a correlation with how expensive the guitar is and how comfortable I feel to play it, take it out the house etc. But that’s all going to be individual circumstances.

Personally yes I do think the price of this particular guitar feels high, but many do. Most guitars have gone up in price quite sharply so it’s all relative. Someone’s buying them so what can you do.

Ossyrocks · July 2021

Danielsguitars said:

Ossyrocks said:

I would dearly love a Custom like that, but the money is just madness.

Think about what you could buy for that. For less money you could buy a clean original 60’s 335.

Rob

Yes but I sold a carved top burst to a guy last year with quite alot of vintage guitars Inc both slab board and laminate 60s strats, 59 335 etc and it's my guitar that's out permanently because he loves it, just sold him 2 more builds too and my lightweight will be his gigging guitar

You have to try guitars out and see what's best for you, I genuinely don't lust after vintage stuff anymore, investment or so called mojo etc are a different thing.

Darren, I’m sure your guitars are great. I would love to get one in my hands at some point.

riffpowers · July 2021

I don’t like em . I don’t like the artificially yellowed binding and that.

Customs are my favourites though.

ICBM · July 2021

I could have bought a real '56 one in 1999 for £2,149 less than that.

Stupidly, I didn't.

JayGee · July 2021

HandwrittenHero said:

I don’t have the limit as such, but there is a correlation with how expensive the guitar is and how comfortable I feel to play it, take it out the house etc. But that’s all going to be individual circumstances.

Personally yes I do think the price of this particular guitar feels high, but many do. Most guitars have gone up in price quite sharply so it’s all relative. Someone’s buying them so what can you do.

For me it’s not so much that there’s a hard limit as that as the price tags get bigger guitars start to come into competition with other things (motorcycles, cars, nice holidays,…) for my attention.

If I had a disposable £6k to hand (which I don’t at the moment) that would buy (for instance) really nice Mazda MX5, and since I’ve already got a number of nice guitars and don’t have a small convertible sports car…

Ossyrocks · July 2021

ICBM said:

I could have bought a real '56 one in 1999 for £2,149 less than that.

Stupidly, I didn't.

Ooof

xscaramanga · July 2021

If it makes you feel any better, I had one when they could be bought used for sensible money. A Historic.

Bag of shit. Gap between the binding and the frets that the high E string always got caught on, weighed as much as the moon, and absolute ice pick treble from the bridge pickup. The icepickiness was not solved by changing the pickup, it was just a shrill guitar. The neck pickup sounded good but had an unbelievably huge low end, so good luck EQing your amp for both pickups. Also a comically huge neck, although I realise some people like that.

Around the same time I reviewed a Les Paul Junior Faded (RRP £599 at the time) that just knocked the spots off the R4 for playability and P90 tone. Wish I'd bought one.

Hottubes · July 2021

The Dancing ain't bad either.

Offset · July 2021

equalsql said:

My absolute dream guitar.. but close to £6K, yikes
Mrs equalsql would cut my heart out with a spoon if I picked up one of these.

What's one to do?

https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/gibson-custom-1954-les-paul-custom-reissue-40129.html

Not doing it for me, especially at £6k which is frankly ludicrous. And being picky, the white ply on the scratchplate clashes very noticeably with the cream body binding. Neck binding looks to be white too - why not go to the effort to match it all up?

HandwrittenHero · July 2021

Offset said:

equalsql said:

My absolute dream guitar.. but close to £6K, yikes
Mrs equalsql would cut my heart out with a spoon if I picked up one of these.

What's one to do?

https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/gibson-custom-1954-les-paul-custom-reissue-40129.html

Not doing it for me, especially at £6k which is frankly ludicrous. And being picky, the white ply on the scratchplate clashes very noticeably with the cream body binding. Neck binding looks to be white too - why not go to the effort to match it all up?

Because that's how it looks as the different parts have aged, e.g. Les Paul's 1954 Gibson "Black Beauty" Guitar Sells for $335,500 at Auction | Guitar World

dazzajl · July 2021

Hottubes said:

The Dancing ain't bad either.

Back in the days when everything was filmed in white and white.

AK99 · July 2021

TTony said:

equalsql said:

Mrs equalsql would cut my heart out with a spoon if I picked up one of these.

What's one to do?

Hide all the spoons.

She's still have the forks, and the potato peeler to hand..

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