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Very much this ^^^

Only access to the 19th fret? That’s way high enough IMO. Plenty of notes lower down to make a statement, without annoying the local dog population.

Looking good already.

Nor Benmont Tench

I’ve listed my faves earlier in the thread. However, your list has me thinking about the guitar players that were played in my home when I was growing up and it’s very similar: Hank, Wes & Les Paul. There was also Barney Kessel, but Wes was more accessible to my young ears.

I’m in! The sexiest looking guitar ever built IMO, but an ergonomic nightmare. I look forward to many updates.

Excellent result! Good work on the photo front.

Sounds a lot like the way Matteo Mancuso plays, works for him and if it works for you, that’s all that matters.

Nice, congrats on both purchases.

Excellent and good to hear that the seller was a good egg too. There is something I need to point out, however... Kind of an unwritten rule or, at the very least, a guideline

Around £200 new and £160 used on eBay, seems like a good price. Ignore the, “I’ve set it up,” the set up may not be to your taste and is a common selling phrase, all guitars are set up to differing degrees, doesn’t mean it’s been done well. That said, setting action height, intonation and relief on Les Paul is very straightforward.

If it were me, which of course it isn’t, I’d stick with the KoT as that offers 2 separate boosts/drives over the TS’s on or off. Full disclosure, my best pedalboard contained a Fulldrive2, a Line6 DL4 and an Ernie Ball volume pedal, so I’m biased towards that kind of OD pedal and don’t use over the top dirt.

A very neat job you’ve carried out there.

It’s possible that playing is irritating the tendons and nerves given that you might be gripping the neck harder than needed (this is normal when learning and that need to grip too much should abate). It could also be something else of course. I have suffered from tennis/golfer’s elbow in the past and found that best aid to recovery is kinetic tape. Maybe buy a roll and look up KT taping for tennis elbow on YouTube for how to apply (I used a T shape application of 2 strips).

Looks like a cheap guitar that has been attacked with a saw, sanded and repainted. There are echoes of a cross between an Albert Lee signature and an Ovation Breadwinner. I quite like it.

The first time I tried a P90 equipped guitar was a PRS McCarty with Seymour Duncan P90s, I was a convert from the first few notes and I’ve not changed my opinion since. My Tele has pickups voiced like P90s, but still has that inherent Tele sound and my other guitar is an Epiphone Casino Coupé, which is a P90 guitar in the first place. I’ve had other P90 guitars too and they always make me smile. I am, without doubt, a bit of a zealot when it comes to these pickups, or at least the tone they produce and how they react to attack and other parts of the signal chain. Is there a downside? Yes, a pure, single coil P90 can be noisy, but it’s worth it. By way of an alternative, my second choice of pickup would be a Filtertron, especially in a hollowbody. This is all academic of course, I’m not buying the guitar and it’s not my ears (or hands, playability is key too) choosing for you. Keep us posted.

I’m not particularly familiar with that Tele. I’d definitely be inclined to take into a store and do a side by side comparison. I know I’m biased, but it could well be that it’s a P90 equipped guitar that will add to the palette, rather than duplicate.