So ive been playing for around 3 years .. always with my stratocaster guitar or other strat guitar .

yesterday i bought for cheap a great Epiphone Les paul Jr 57 reissue ( come from the Epiphone Custom shop) . Guitar is well built , awesome finish etc.. , very very great guitar in term of playability , sound , construction is solid ( set neck mahogany )


I have start playing with it .. but its a 24.7 scale , the bridge is different and the feel of the 50s neck ( big neck comparing to the thin slim tapred neck of 60s gibson . ) is very different than playing a fender . Its not playing bad but im not used to play this style of guitar .

Now i dont know if i should sell it and stick to Fender stratocaster guitar or getting used to playing with it ????


Anyone had a accomodating period from fender to gibson ??? is it normal ???

specially for palm-muting at the bridge , the palm doesnt rest the same way , the guitar doesnt sit the same as a strat so your hand is in a different position than a 25.5 scale . a Wrap-around bridge is higher than a fender bridge .


im not blaming the guitar .. but its really different than playing a strat . Will i overcome that ???

here a picture of my tv yellow les paul jr reissue

http://digilander.libero.it/thestoners/ ... ior_TV.jpg



thanks for any help .

If you are only used to one profile it can take some adjusting. but you will be better for it, if you stick it out. if you get used to playing a few different guitars, then you won't feel awkward when you play anything other than your own, one guitar.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

You will overcome it... I switch between my strat, Les Paul, ES 335 all the time and I am used to it...

Believe it or not I find the larger bodied guitars like the ES-335 more comfortable to play... The strat is almost like a baby toy to me...

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In Reference to Blues Legend RL Burnside:
After a heart attack in 2001, Burnside's doctor advised him to stop drinking; Burnside did, but he reported that change left him unable to play.

For me it was the reverse. It took a long while getting used to a Strat after being a Gibson-predominately player for decades. But - yes - what you are experiencing is normal ... and worth the effort.

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Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I have a desperate plan ...

Well, obviously playing a Strat -is- different from playing a Les Paul (which is different from playing an ES-335 or something like a Gretsch Chet Country Gentleman....which is going to be different still from playing a Jackson). This one really comes down to a matter of personal choice. Some folks are happy playing anything they can get their hands on, others will only play 1 or 2 guitar their entire life. Personally I tend to lean towards Strats...or at least "Strat-style" instruments (such as my old Kramer). I've tried playing many LP's over the years and I've just never been able to get used to them. I -can- play them...if I have to...I just don't care for them. I have a dear old friend who has a '80 Les Paul special...simply lovely instrument that sounds incredible...I -hate it-, LOL!!! In fact the only LP I've ever really cared for is my old Memphis LP clone and I think the main reason I like that one is because it's a flat top and not an arch. Looks like an LP, plays and sounds like a Tele more than anything.

My attitude with guitars is simply this; "why force it?". There are a great many brands and styles of guitar out there now a days in all prices ranges...from $200 imports to $4000 - $8000 Custom Shop models to $20,000+ vintage instruments...instead of forcing yourself to play something and hope that you'll get comfortable with it eventually (which may or may not happen), why not just play something you actually like to begin with? If you like playing Strats, play Strats. If you like playing LP's, play LP's, if you like one of each, then get one of each. There's not real right or wrong here...play what makes you happy. In the end it's the music you make that counts, not what you make it on.

Peace,
Jim

Just my $.02 worth,
Jim

Dosent playing a "non" Fender guitar make hair grow on your hands????

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I like that profile neck my SG has the same. I would stick with it you may find your hand not cramping after you play for awhile if you have that problem like I do. Nice lookin guitar

Read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. People can become accustomed to, and indeed enjoy, almost anything.

Guitars are different. I like big necks as much as I like small necks, but for different reasons. Switching guitars is not unlike trading cars: at first the new one is all wrong, but after some driving it begins to feel like home. I don't find switching guitars to be anything other than an interesting and cool opportunity.

I used to have an LP custom. Wasn't very fond of it. I only bought it because it was a 35th anniversary model that they had on the rack for 800 bucks. I played with it for about a year then turned around and sold it on auction for 2500. Personally, I'm a Strat man through and through. I prefer the 25.5 scale. One thing that always happened when I played my LP was that I'd not be watching the fingerboard, slide up to the 12th fret, for example, and end up a fret or 2 past it and have to slide back. Very weird feeling there. Never had any problems with muting though, just the scale length. Another problem with that LP was that it was unusually heavy. Damn thing weighed close to 12lbs. Trust me, on stage you wouldn't want to do more than 1 or 2 songs with it, and I'm a big guy.

But, in time, if you stick with it, you will get accustomed to it. But I think in your heart you'll always be a Strat person.
MULLY