LsL Guitars

[Ting Ho Dung]

Anyone have experience with them? What would you compare them to? I like Melancon's but they don't relic well.

[cmatthes]

Because they were the Gear Page "Flavor of the Month" a while back, I promptly ignored them.

[Sugartune]

No clue. Thanks for introducing them. They look nice. If the price was right and they played well, it'd work for me. Which I guess applies to any guitar. Definitely no help here. Sorry!

[The Shark]

I have a couple of Danocasters you can check out, if you are in town sometime soon. They are anything but the "flavor of the month" guitar. They hold their value and sell immediately, if sold used.

Don't know about the LsL, but there sure are a ton of boutique Strat and Tele builders over at TGP. I think you have to look at whether they hold their value and how much they cost. D'Pergo, for instance, are completely hand-made (even the screws), but they are six grand!

Danocasters are about a six month wait and under 2K. I'm having a '68 maple cap Strat made that'll show up in about four months. Dan Strain is a great guy to deal with. No BS and delivers on time. You don't save much buying used either. And that's a good thing!

[Biz Prof]

Strongly recommend you research the brand on the boards at TDPRI.

[serial]

Ask around here and you'll see why jackasses like 'Revelator' (what an asscrack that shyster is) should not ever be dealt with by a sensible person.

Somehow, they manage to keep suckering morons on TGP.

[kizanski]

Ask around here and you'll see why jackasses like 'Revelator' (what an asscrack that shyster is) should not ever be dealt with by a sensible person..

Man oh man... What a fucking crackpot that guy is.

Emphasis on the crack.

[Sugartune]

The guitar brand, Revelator or some person? What's the relation to lsl?

[cmatthes]

Dan Strain (Danocaster) is awesome. I like his stuff a lot.

[serial]

The guitar brand, Revelator or some person? What's the relation to lsl?

No-Kiz and I are talking about that fuckstick Eric who has 'Revelator Guitars'. Allparts bodies and necks that he used to claim he built himself. Horrible work and even worse businessperson. Avoid that clownfucktard at all costs.

[burningyen]

Yeah, let's not lump reputable brands that get talked about on TGP (like LsL, Danocaster, D'Pergo, Melancon, Suhr, Grosh, Tyler, Anderson, K-Line, Lentz, Rick Kelly, Ron Kirn, DeTemple, Sadowsky, Pensa, Mario Martin, Thorn, etc. etc.) in with folks like Revelator (and Kelton Swade).

[The Shark]

^{Here they are...Ron Ellis pickups in each.}

^{And the Gary Moore inspired slab-board...}

[kizanski]

Rausch, the cursive font...not working.

[velorush]

No idea about any of the above and almost never look at TGP unless a thread pops up in a Google search.

What I do know is I played an LsL Tele at Martin Music and it was magnificent. Alive! Extremely resonant and fun to play. I would have made off with it that day but it looked like it'd been dragged behind a D9 Cat and I just can't bring myself to pay that kind of cash for something so beat up.

If you dig the relic thing, give one a try. I think they do NOS, but I've not seen one of those in person.

[The Shark]

Rausch, the cursive font...not working.

Lack of creative vision on your part is now evident. Now, it's New Times Roman for the next year!

Torturing your friends is very underrated.

[ptm1diver]

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Posted Today, 02:57 PM

Anyone have experience with them? What would you compare them to? I like Melancon's but they don't relic well.

Well if you want your Melancon relic'd, like they do it in Texas, I have a pickup truck and an extra dock line.

[gorch]

Carl Verheyen is running a signature strat with LsL for a while. Although I admire his playing very much, I thought it is quite pricey for a put together guitar the strat is.

[Drendino]

LSL was on my shortlist for a Strat. I made a point to spend some time at his booth at Naam this year. My two cents, all IMHO:

The guitars I played were remarkably resonant. I understand that Lance was previously a woodworker of sorts and somehow he found a recipe for resonance. Thats where it ends for me. The fit and finish was far short of a builder like Melancon. The general set-up and playability did not do it for me. They sounded pretty good, but the unplugged resonance that I heard did not translate too well while they were plugged it, which was a head scratcher for me. Not bad guitars, just not the kind of quality that Hamer players enjoy.

My buddy bought a set of the Carl Verheyen Strat pups. I can honestly say that they are the worst sounding pickups I have ever heard. I like lower output vintage spec Strat pups, but these were thin, scratchy and unmusical.

[Drendino]

I like Melancon's but they don't relic well.

BTW, I saw something a couple of months ago where Melancon announced that he will now start offering reliced guitars. I'm not sure if he mastered the technique yet, but knowing his work (from afar) it won't be long.

[Ting Ho Dung]

I like Melancon's but they don't relic well.

BTW, I saw something a couple of months ago where Melancon announced that he will now start offering reliced guitars. I'm not sure if he mastered the technique yet, but knowing his work (from afar) it won't be long.

Nice. He'll have to change his finish. I have a Mel that was owned by Greg Douglas and was on tour with him when he was with Steve Miller as well as his own gigs. Lots of really sharp chips in the finish. I had to file down the edges because they kept scratching my forearm. No long sleeves in Florida after all.

[kizanski]

Rausch, the cursive font...not working.

Lack of creative vision on your part is now evident.

Lack of vision is the point.

I can't read it 'cause it looks like shit.

[MCChris]

So, they're knockoffs of Nash knockoffs of Fenders.

[Ting Ho Dung]

Rausch, the cursive font...not working.

Lack of creative vision on your part is now evident.

Lack of vision is the point.

I can't read it 'cause it looks like shit.

Are you lacking the font, Kiz? I'll be glad to send it to you. Wait, aren't you in IT?

[cynic]

It only showed as script for me on iOS devices, but it was crazy hard to read.

All we need now is for django to reduce the size of his profile pic.

[velorush]

LSL was on my shortlist for a Strat. I made a point to spend some time at his booth at Naam this year. My two cents, all IMHO:

The guitars I played were remarkably resonant. I understand that Lance was previously a woodworker of sorts and somehow he found a recipe for resonance. Thats where it ends for me. The fit and finish was far short of a builder like Melancon. The general set-up and playability did not do it for me. They sounded pretty good, but the unplugged resonance that I heard did not translate too well while they were plugged it, which was a head scratcher for me. Not bad guitars, just not the kind of quality that Hamer players enjoy.

My buddy bought a set of the Carl Verheyen Strat pups. I can honestly say that they are the worst sounding pickups I have ever heard. I like lower output vintage spec Strat pups, but these were thin, scratchy and unmusical.

I think it was in Thorn's FS (to fund a Melancon) thread a few days ago that I commented every employee in Martin Music agreed the Melancon was easily the best Tele in the building. That happened the day I was playing the LsL (I didn't have time to play the Melancon).