michaelhanson
I assumed he was messing with us Craigb.     When I first posted this image to my Facebook page I actually had some one respond in all seriousness....."OMG, there is an actual Les Paul!....is that him". 
 

I knew someone who thought 'Les Paul' was French for 'The Paul'..whatever that might have meant...

57Gregy
Beautiful.
When I was 15 in 1972, I knew very little about guitars. An ad on the back of Guitar Player magazine made me fall in love with (the look of) Les Pauls. 
It was 2 LPs, one black and one white. Yours looks just like the one in the ad.
Someday...

My first guitar was a poor copy of a Les Paul. A piece of junk, really. I'm sure it hindered my development, even though I gained something else persevering. To make it worst, it was tobacco sunburst - the worst finish for this young aspiring metal god.
 
So the minute I could, I switched to Fender strats and avoided Les Paul's until a few years ago. 
 
Funnily enough, the first non-strat guitar I bought was this cheap little Epiphone, which I picked up in view of our travels overseas. 

 
That's when I really started getting back into Les Pauls. It's kind of fitting that when I finally get my genuine Gibson Les Paul, it's the same colour scheme as this inexpensive guitar which first got me back into them.

jamesg1213

michaelhanson
I assumed he was messing with us Craigb.     When I first posted this image to my Facebook page I actually had some one respond in all seriousness....."OMG, there is an actual Les Paul!....is that him". 
 

I knew someone who thought 'Les Paul' was French for 'The Paul'..whatever that might have meant...

Actually, there IS a Les Paul Gibson called "The Paul" which my best friend owned.  Looks like this:
 

 
 
That's a beaut Krist - congratulations!!

Nice guit Rain.  HNGD2U

craigb

jamesg1213

michaelhanson
I assumed he was messing with us Craigb.     When I first posted this image to my Facebook page I actually had some one respond in all seriousness....."OMG, there is an actual Les Paul!....is that him". 
 

I knew someone who thought 'Les Paul' was French for 'The Paul'..whatever that might have meant...

Actually, there IS a Les Paul Gibson called "The Paul" which my best friend owned.  Looks like this:
 

Yeah, I remember those. Had a bolt on neck if I remember right, and butt ugly.

BTW...Congratulations on your new guitar, Rain! I think you should get "Raindy" Rhoads engraved into the pickguard.

Rain
Nope - and it's actually one of the reasons I bought this one, because I didn't want min-etune. 

I bought mine mostly on the strength that it was priced at £649 new, instead of the more typical £899 for a Studio in the UK.  It's a 2013 model, hence it had the tuning system installed.
 
I wasn't sure about how well the Min-ETune system would work or how I'd get on with it.  Now that I have it, I have to say I love it to bits, it's an amazing piece of kit.

Leadfoot
BTW...Congratulations on your new guitar, Rain! I think you should get "Raindy" Rhoads engraved into the pickguard.

 
Funny that you mention that - I've been getting back to the source and working on those Rhoads songs for a few weeks now. I've made a tiny bit of adjustments to the new Les Paul tonight before I started practicing and I soon found myself in something like a state of grace - my fingers seemed to fly all over that fretboard, so I could focus on expression rather than hitting all the notes in time.
 
In terms of playability, I always thought the SG had quite an edge, especially because of higher fret access. But the neck on this LP makes it a breeze to play - quite surprising. It's a very inspiring instrument.

For all the Gibson knocking that goes on, just a basic LP Studio is a fine piece of kit.