Les Paul Custom White/Gold HW

[Platefire]

I've had this thing a long time for white Les Paul with Gold HW but with the high prices of Gibson, I would never spring that kind of cash for it. I guess I'm tight!

I recently had a Stagg Les Paul custom White/Gold HW that I was real happy with but I let a good friend talk me out of it on a trade for a tele. Not really sorry because I love Teles.

Now I'm thinking about another White Custom and have been looking at the Agile 3100. Man!! Just looking at the pictures I like the appearance better than a Gibson because I think the creme pickup rings, knobs and pickgard go so much better with white/Gold than Gibson's black. The stagg was mapel body/neck, the Agile is mahogony. I just think Agile knocked it out of the park on this one as far as appearance---next question? how does it play and sound. Anybody here had any experiance with Agile LP's? Click on the link and see what you think.
http://www.rondomusic.com/al3100whitegold.html

[Geezer]

No personal experience, but I've heard good things about them (Rob/Ampcabinets had a bunch of them & swore by them, for what it's worth).

That really is a pretty guitar.......just make sure their return policy is good (just in case it's a piece of crap).

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[Platefire]

Yep, that's for sure. I even got a bad new Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty in the 70's--that was a bummer! 

[stingray_65]

She's a looker alright!

Unless there is something mechanically wrong with say the way the neck is set, it can be made into a real player if it doesn't come that way to start with.

I'm sure you'll end up doing all those things players do to set up your guitar the way you like to play.

Just making the action comfortable to how you play will improve its tone, just because it feels better to you.

Then there are all those other mods thats available to do, after market pickups, tone and volume pot upgrades, gold Bigsby trem, on and on. Stuff you wouldn't dream of doing to an expensive or collectible guitar.

and lets say you really don't care for it or it sets in a corner for a year, if you trade it away for half its list price you're out only a couple hundred bucks.

[Platefire]

Well I have about seven electrics that I like a lot and so I'm continually rotating from one to another. So even if I like the Agile a lot, it will have to do time out during normal rotations, Har! All my other guitars look good too but it would be nice to have one really classy looking ax like that one and if I could set it up where it played like a dream, that would be wonderful--it might even end up doing less time out than the others!