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I don't know but I've been playing guitars for 23 years and Les Pauls for 20 years. What-ever Gibson did they did to save money. What-ever Gibson markets to you is more hype, spin and symantical jibberish than science or engineering.

When they decided to chamber the Standard, they made that decision for ONE reason and it wasn't superior sound quality. It was to help them chamber more money out of your wallet and spend less of their own cash on high quality wood.

To those who say they love it...I say "whaaaah?". Everybody's going to get all freakin worked-up, but I think you're on more drugs than Hendrix was. Sometimes I think you could screw a pickup to a hockey stick, call it a Les Paul and people would drewl all over it.

Cheap, low quality mahagony is heavy....real heavy. There's only one way to lighten it up. Do the math. Tell me how much tonal technology went into that CNC mapping program? People need to wake up and smell the saw dust. That or play a few guitars from the vintage shop downtown. Maybe a kick in the crotch from reality would change some opinions.

In the end it's all an equation. This for that. I won't say a "chambered" LP is total crap. My opinion, along with wood, they should "chamber" out some of the price. Knock it down to $1500 for $2300. It would still sound harsh, trebly and impercise, but at least you would LOOK like Slash.