This is as simple and effective an electric guitar that can be had - there are no more or less "features" needed, it is what is and it struts it's stuff very well indeed (at least for me). Good materials and build, silky smooth tuners with vintage small button vibe, Tusq nut that's cut right on, TOM bridge for easy intonation (unlike the limited tweakability of the LP Jr's wraparound bridge), nice neck shape that's not really all that thin, good fret work, screamingly delicious P90, quality pots and jack. I dunno what wood they're using (mahogany, cedar, whatever) but this guitar is Extremely resonant, with struck notes lingering far longer than normal - and it's a FIVE piece, 1-3/8" thick body. I can race the single P90 for *Screaming* beat-yer-head-in rock/thrash/metal tones without icepick in the ear screetch, or throttle back for thick slightly overdriven blues, and pull further back still for clean jazz and ragtime fingerstyle. Only one bridge pup. Really. The key is in the P90 and the body - combined, they've got The Tone. As soon as I got the MM, I restrung with 11's, adjusted the truss rod and bridge/saddles, set the action and intonation, tunes up, plugged straight into a small boutique Champ clone w/12" speaker and got lost in the playing for an hour. I dunno that it's really worth it in comparison to similar Pac Rim offerings, but this guitar just exudes good vibrations in every sense of the word. Glad I got it. You probably would be, too.

Get some grover tuners and new strings to upgrade it.. Then Id recomend it for anyone and all syles of music. The one pickup is all you need and it has an awesome tone. So get it cause is worth it.

I just bought one of these and absolutely love it. The neck is wonderful (60's slim taper style) and wicked fast. The tone is excellent as is, partly due to the great sounding Gibson P-90 and the wood tones. And my favorite part about this guitar is the feel of the aged paint job and the overall "vibe-y-ness" of it all. I own several guitars (including a Gibson Les Paul Classic) and this one ranks as one of the funnest to play with one of my favorite tones for lead playing and rowdy rhythm. I can't believe Gibson doesn't charge more for these guitars. Wow!

Well, let's face facts: It's ugly as sin with its unfilled wood grain and thin sprayed-on paint, its tiny little headstock and skinny white button tuners. The input jack is mounted on the face of the guitar so they could only cut one route in the back for the jack, vol, and tone pots, and it's got one black plastic dog-ear P-90 at the bridge. If this thing was a puppy at the dog pound, nobody would adopt it!

HOWEVER, once you pick it up, something amazing happens. You realize that the tone knob can actually be used to - get this - change the tone! You realize that the volume knob can take it from crystal clear to low-down and nasty with a simple twist. You start to wonder why you need that neck pickup on all your other guitars. Or the trem bar, or the locking tuners, or eight pounds of wood around your neck, or that quilted maple birdseye flame ten-top that you're so scared of scratching. And after a few weeks, you think to yourself, "Hey, I sure haven't been playing those other guitars in the closet much," and you promise that you will ... tomorrow ... or the day after that ... really ... just as soon as I put this ugly little Gibson down ... no, seriously ... next week for sure ...

Give it a month and you'll be hooked. I know I am.

This is a great little guitar for not a lot of money. In my opinion, just about everything is overpriced these days, but looked at objectively, it's really hard to find a decent american made guitar in this price range. Thanks to Gibson for making it happen. Tone is absolutely fantastic, playability is more than adequate for an instrument found in this price point. Mine had a bad nut straight out of the box, the high "e" slot was cut too deep, and the string fretted out all the way up the board. I filled the slot and re-cut it though, and aside from that, I haven't had a single problem with the guitar. I for one am a huge fan of single pick-up guitars. Magnets are magnets, and even if you don't have a guitar's neck pick-up turned on, it is still exerting string pull. With nothing but a bridge pick-up, you get overtones, harmonics, and sustain, that are much more musical, and string to string definition that is much more articulate. In my opinion, a single P-90 guitar exibits the quintessential bridge pick-up tone, and this guitar excels at it. As far as tonal differentiation, experimenting with your picking technique and the tone control can unveil myriad tonal possibilities. One cool axe for stage or studio, and with a beginner guitar price tag to boot. Getcha one.