Cork Soaking Sycophant Has New Guitar Day

[la szum]

We all know @DrewJD82 is a pretty cool fella. I promise I don't want to be him when I grow
up. Too damn old anyways.

His Edwards NGD from a couple of months back hit me hard. I've been craving a Les Paul Custom
for over a year now. I bought and sold a PRS Tremonti, and an Singlecut in the past year. Neither
of which scratched the LPC itch. I can't fathom dropping $4k to $5K for a Gibson. Just out of my
reach and not a dollar amount I want to invest in a guitar. So I started watching a few Edwards LPC
listing out of Japan on Reverb. About a week ago the almight US Dollar was surging against the
Japanese Yen and I noticed the price on a new one had dropped over $200 since I put it on my
Watchlist. Took me about 15 seconds to pull the trigger.
It showed up today. Immaculately boxed and packed. From the moment I pulled it out of the
box I knew I had something in my hands I would grow to love. Instant Goldilocks moment of this
is "just right."

Doesn't need a setup. Not even a little. Nut is cut perfectly. Action is just like I would set it up
myself. Neck is meatier than the Gibson LPC necks I have tried. Not quite 50's Traditional girth,
but very close, and a lot bigger than a Gibson 60's Slim Taper (which I am not a fan of). It comes
with a Duncan Jazz and JB set in it. Plan on dropping some EMGs in it soon. Haha! Not. I am not
that much of a sycophant. More like sycophant lite.

I will swap out the JB at some point, though. I am super excited to play this with some Amps and
the Fractal. Probably should drop some new strings on it. It's everything I wanted in an LPC. I could
not be more pleased. I have had some crappy NGD in the past year---including multiple returns due
to poor quality. This is probably the best out of the box new guitar I have experienced in quite some
time.

Really stoked. Not stoked enough to soak a cork, though.

 

[JT]

Congrats! White guitars are

 

[jellodog]

@la szum Just need to save up for that matching White Tiger now...




(incidentally I saw Mr. Hawkins do this back in the day and it really was amazing!)

Enjoy your new guitar. Awesome score!

 

[DrewJD82]

What he meant to say was that it’s horrible and no one should ever buy one until la szum and I buy the majority of them to make sure the bad ones don’t get in anyone‘s hands. So yeah, don’t buy. Don’t look on Reverb. Especially the white ones. Actually, there’s a new rule for the forum: If you buy a white Edwards LPC, you HAVE to give it to me. Just replaced Rule 1. Thank you for participating, it is indeed for your own good.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Yesssstgat is incredible

Congrats!!

 

[DrewJD82]

Damnit I REALLY don’t know why I didn’t buy a white one. That’s my only regret, but on the other hand, it gives me THAT much more drive to buy another one.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Where is MIJLover when you need him? Killer NGD!

 

[hemmelight]

Congrats! I had an E-LP-130 like ten years ago that was really great!
My only complaint was the pretty thin neck that wasn't really what I was after in a Les Paul, so I eventually replaced it with a (gasp) Gibson.

...that was also sold to buy my Suhr strat. Realised I'm just a strat guy after all.

 

[jellodog]

@hemmelight Yeah, I really loved that Edwards of yours - extremely well made guitar and fantastic price at the time. One of the few gear perks of living in Australia was the much wider availability of Japanese guitars for sure.

Everything else was expensive AF, though.

 

[la szum]

Congrats! White guitars are

I agree. It's the only white guitar I have right now. Had a White Gibson LPC back in 1987 and
stupidly fell for the fad of pointy guitars. Young Dave was dumber than old Dave.

 

[la szum]

Congrats! I had an E-LP-130 like ten years ago that was really great!
My only complaint was the pretty thin neck that wasn't really what I was after in a Les Paul, so I eventually replaced it with a (gasp) Gibson.

...that was also sold to buy my Suhr strat. Realised I'm just a strat guy after all.

I was SO worried it would have a 60's style slim-taper neck. It doesn't. So relieved.

 

[la szum]

@la szum Just need to save up for that matching White Tiger now...




(incidentally I saw Mr. Hawkins do this back in the day and it really was amazing!)

Enjoy your new guitar. Awesome score!

Haha! How I have I never seen this before?? Better work on my mustache game, too.

 

[Warmart]

Huge congrats mister! Looks awesome and I couldn't be happier for you - I may have to round one up myself, one of these days. And it would be white!

 

[hemmelight]

I was SO worried it would have a 60's style slim-taper neck. It doesn't. So relieved.

That particular one I had was even thinner than the 60's slim taper! For whatever reason that Edwards was like Ibanez wizard thin.
Bizarre, but I guess the Japanese players really like super skinny necks.

 

[la szum]

Makes me wonder what changed since then.

I am glad they did.

 

[Fireproof]

Beauty!

 

[Stone]

Damn La, beautiful purchase, HNGD
I'm sure you will enjoy it very much

 

[Iron1]

You sure do got a purdy... guitar...

Dunno why, but been feeling the LP GAS lately myself. Not sure it's @DrewJD82's fault, but I'm totally okay blaming him for rando stuff all day so...

Either way, congrats!! She's a beaut!

 

[TJontheRoad]

 

[Stone]

Not sure it's @DrewJD82's fault

Everything is @DrewJD82 fault