Short-scale Les Paul style guitar?

mountain2012 · Post by **mountain2012** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:47 pm

Can someone please direct me to one?

Seen any short SGs around?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:46 pm

There was the Jaguar HH with a stop tailpiece. Doesn't look at all Les Pauley, and it's bolt on. But it is most of the way there. It's been discontinued, but you might find one.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:33 pm

Do an Chiquita

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:35 pm

A Les Paul is short scale. How short are you talking? They made a shorter scale Gibson Melody maker too. You don't find them often though.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:51 pm

I think a couple of companies made mini Les Pauls:

otherwise Gibson themselves made some 22.75" instruments in the 1950s and 1960s, they're going to be expensive though:
http://www.vintageguitar.com/3710/gibson-les-paul-special-34/
I remember seeing others than the Special in the article, they also had hollow bodies and Melody Makers.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:36 am

Thomas wrote:A Les Paul is short scale. How short are you talking?

Probably shorter than one of the two commonly accepted "standard" scale lengths for an electric guitar like 24.75"

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:17 am

a shortscale guitar is fucking 24" OR LIKE 22.X

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ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:46 am

...or shorter. Real deal shortscaling here...I was about to post about LP-shaped TOMO Electric Ukuleles, and oops too late.

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Jagtornado · Post by **Jagtornado** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:00 pm

Thomas wrote:A Les Paul is short scale. How short are you talking? They made a shorter scale Gibson Melody maker too. You don't find them often though.

I think he means 24 inch

71Smallbox · Post by **71Smallbox** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:58 pm

I just don't get it.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:11 pm

Gibson's real scale is 24.562", for some reasons they have been declared it as 24.75" (MIC Epiphones have real length of 24.75"). Difference between Mustang and Les Paul, while playing, may not be noticed, if nobody tells you that one fretboard is shorter than another. The term "shortscale" is the inside term for the exact company, like 24" is the shortscale for the standard scale of 25.5" for Fender, while the"full" 25.5" scale is shorter than the traditional scale of classical guitar which is 25.6". Gibson used to have 3/4 scale of 24.562" and Birdland that used to have the regular scale minus the first fret.

Fender used to have wider range of shortscale models, so yeah, shortscale means either 24" or 22".

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:42 pm

sunshiner wrote:Difference between Mustang and Les Paul, while playing, may not be noticed, if nobody tells you that one fretboard is shorter than another.

Surely the crippling pain in the left shoulder would give the Les Paul away.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:36 pm

http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Electrics/Les-Paul/Les-Paul-Express.aspx

dren68 · Post by **dren68** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:18 pm

There's also the Am. Special Mustang. I think it's been discontinued, but you can probably find a used one.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:25 pm

PRS makes a great one, the 245 (24.5" scale). They're usually light and the PRS SE 245 is quite affordable at $499. You just have to get over the stigma of having a PRS*.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SEStd245VC

* Yes, I have one, but mine doesn't have bird inlays.