Gibson Les Paul Classic Chicago Blue

Gibson has been reborn with 2019 and later series: good materials and great nice finish.

Just a couple of cons:
- Unfortunately it came with a knob with detached cap and the replaced piece is not exactly the same model.
- The fretboard is a little bit dry from factory and need to be hydrated with, for example, lemon oil.
- The neck need to be adjusted as strings buzz in some frets.

As stated in the specs, the weight relief makes the guitar a little bit lighter but still heavier than a normal guitar, anyway this is not a problem at all, I can keep it during 2 hours perfectly.

It comes with a black solid and strong case and a black leather strap. Both are good quality items.

About the pots, they are push-pull allowing coil-split, to put out of phase both puckups and to by-pass tune and volume controls making a very versatile guitar but keeping the Gibson LP sound when you require it.
- Coil-split: I'm not sure if it's a pure coil-split or paralell coils mode, anyway sounds more brilliant (not as much as a Strato single coils).
- Out-of-phase: Selecting both pickups, this mode cancel some frequencies, giving a typical "quack" sound. I'm not really fan of this tone, but could be useful for specific styles.
- Tone/volume bypass: it cancel all pots and select bridge pickup. Interesting if you want to quickly switch between your volume/tone config and direct output (like if all pots were at maximum level and bridge pickup selected). Later you can come back to your original tone/volume config pushing down this knob.

In general I fully recomend this fantastic guitar, cheaper than LP Standard and better finished than LP Studio.