After a while, if the Les Paul becomes your number one, the Strat will be missed and you will go back and forth. They are iconic styles and both serve their purpose for whatever your playing. Neither are better. Gotta have both.

I started on a Strat styled guitar but 30 years and 58 guitars later, still prefer my LP's.

Les paul is the guitar of my dreams and I had never played les paul until I started working in a music store. It's a very, very heavy guitar but that feels totally worth it.

What amazes me is that Fender started out to make a guitar to compete with Gibson on price by making them as cheaply and easy to make as possible, but yet now are basically the same price!

I am strat man through and through but this changed when my wife said I can get ANY guitar as a wedding present. I went for a Gibson les Paul Standard 50's. My logic was I can always build my perfect strat but I can't build a Les Paul. I'm over the moon with my choice. The neck on my LP standard 50's is a dream to play.

You really need both, but if you were stuck on Mars you'd want a stratocaster and a fender tube amp.

I will take any Fenders you don’t want 😂

Thats funny cuz my Strat ruined my log....um I mean LP.

Why choose? There's plenty of room in everyone's collection for both. We tend to gravitate back and forth over time, so might as well have some variety in your collection.

That will never be the case. You will find yourself going back n forth throughout life. It's similar to having more than one girlfriend or the open marriage scenario.

The Les Paul is iconic. It's the look, feel and sound of classic and hard rock music to me. When I go to my local music stores, the Gibson LP's are all I look at.

Strats are better for me.

Reverse for me. Aligns better with the music I’m trying to master now. I’m 61. Finally loving my Teles too.

I put a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat in the Neck position on a Les Paul Clone and the tone and versatility is such an improvement, so what you are saying about P-90's on a Les Paul really resonated with me.

Lots of valid points made. For years I played a strat. Then I got my Hamer, 93 special with seymour p90s. Loved it. Still do. But when I got my first Les Paul, yeah. Now, I recently got another gibby. SG standard 61. Really diggin how light it is. I'm in my sixties, so my back has seen better days. Still, I've always considered my self pro fender. Got the American standard with the shawbucker/ fat 50s.

Great review/discussion on the differences!! It's hilarious, though, that you reached from the whammy at

I have always played a Strat but wanted to try a Les Paul and picked up a USA Tribute Special to try one out. I have fell in love with the shorter scale and fretboard. Thanks for the video. My Les Paul has P90's

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This hit the spot for me! I played in high school 1970ies. A Les Paul "copy" as we called them back then. 50 years later I started playing again. Been through probably 40 guitars since started back 4 years ago. Just when I thought the Tele was my favorite.....I bought one of the recent $1300 Epiphone 59s. Despite the gibson custom shops I have owned and all the betweens, this just BONDED with me. Selling my '51 AVRI Tele and buying a Gibson Slash with the chunky neck. I have arrived home!

Another awesome vid guys! And I agree with everything you said, despite my bias toward humbuckers. I've been fighting this dilemma too. I play LPs because of the sound and shorter scale length; but my Strat Elite has an amazing neck that I cannot replicate with any guitar. The best neck ever! I don't like the headstock angle of Gibson LP/SG and prefer the more shallow angle of the Epiphones.