Wait a second, 2K for a brand new, '15 Deluxe- did I read that right?!?

[Fiat Lux]

Les Paul's have four knobs.

Darn tootin'

cheers

 

[jadslash]

Prices arent that bad exceptfor the '15 standards.
I mean sure, they went up..
But thats every year though so no biggie..
Somebody buy a '15 already and do a ngd.
Really curious about the pickguard and the neck/fretboard difference.

 

[Compulsor]

Well put your money where your keyboard mouth is and post a NGD, bitch!
Then we'll talk.

Hee-hee! I laughed out loud, and after the day I had, I needed it!

 

[Rocco Crocco]

The vast majority of bitching around here lately has been about the prices of the 2015's. Here's one for $2100 and still mostly negative comments.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining.

 

[DesolationBlvd]

Les Paul's have an even number of knobs.

Corrected.

Does anyone even like the 15dB booster / killswitch (with the battery out)? The pickup selector and independent volumes were a perfectly good killswitch.

 

[Compulsor]

Well put your money where your keyboard mouth is and post a NGD, bitch!
Then we'll talk.

Corrected.

Does anyone even like the 15dB booster / killswitch (with the battery out)? The pickup selector and independent volumes were a perfectly good killswitch.

Killswitch doesn't really figure in what I like to play- but I could see how a quickly flickable switch could be easier to manipulate than locating, and manipulating a possibly slippery rotary knob in the heat of battle.

 

[JMB1984]

The vast majority of bitching around here lately has been about the prices of the 2015's. Here's one for $2100 and still mostly negative comments.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining.

People are more so talking about how the Standard has gone from $2499 to $3,799 between 2012-2015. The Supreme $2999 to $6599 over the same period.

But since thread is about the Deluxe, which also prices around the Classic, the current prices for the classic are Classic 2014 - $1,862 and Classic/Deluxe 2015 - $2,279/$2,379.

Gibsons are excluded from the 15% off, but even if you do talk them into it, it's still $400 difference between model years. The coments are negative because 1-2 years ago these guitars were also only $1699.

 

[DesolationBlvd]

Killswitch doesn't really figure in what I like to play- but I could see how a quickly flickable switch could be easier to manipulate than locating, and manipulating a possibly slippery rotary knob in the heat of battle.

Maybe I'm a little harsh on the switch-in-place-of-a-tone-knob. I realized that the killswitch replacing the tone knob allows you to do the killswitch effect and still have both pickups going.

The booster/killswitch would make more sense on the SG/V/Explorer, though.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

The vast majority of bitching around here lately has been about the prices of the 2015's. Here's one for $2100 and still mostly negative comments.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining.

Read the threads about the 2015's.

Price is only one element. All the "evolutive" characteristics have been criticized quite a bit.
Much more than the price from what I've read.

For one, the G-Force / Min-Etune system on most guitars is quite a turn-off.

 

[jstarr]

The vast majority of bitching around here lately has been about the prices of the 2015's. Here's one for $2100 and still mostly negative comments.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining.

Maybe you should play a 2015 before you jump to any conclusions. I've played two, and they were both awful. Go ahead... order up that Deluxe site unseen from Musician's Friend. I've got a crisp hundo that says you'll probably hate it. After playing the two I played today, I'd drop $1600 on a used Standard any day of the week before I'd spend $2K on one of those turds.