Gibson Les Paul Modern Figured Seafoam Green

After a long wait, this beautiful guitar was finally purchased and now being enjoyed since middle December
At a first glance it is just magnificent, real AAA grain figuring all across the body so main aesthetics test passed upon unboxing with higher grades. It did have two scratches that with some extra polishing on the areas upon upcoming cleaning sessions, I expect to be non visible soon and if not going away, then we have beauty marks to give her extra personality.

There is a lot of stuff under the hood so this baby is fully loaded.  The pickups I had before in another guitar, also with the coil split. Liked them then, love them now. It is not really the sound of a paf when you split but changing on the go from playing Peppers to the Reverend is just as simple as dialing adequately in forehand, and using all these fancy nobs and options to alter the sound a bit. The phase is there, use it sometimes but not too often. My favorite is to combine the direct and volume&splits. With these you can achieve on the go combinations to alter your sound considerably at a nobs touch. 

I am used to normal wired guitars instead of entire circuit boards but nice that you could eventually change pups quickly and solderless with the easy connect system. Beware same color connector though, think it is the latest white cabled ones you can change.  
Hope that I don't have to do any electronics on this guitar since it does look like the Enterprise of the electronics cavities once opened.

As per the neck, playability out of the box and preliminary set up. It was ok and playable.
I increased gauge to 11s and have to adjust a bit the neck since it came already a bit flat and with the string tension increase, the neck needs adjustment. Hope to have a moment today to finally close the neck chapter. The tailpiece came almost nailed to the body which I truly do not like at all. Low yes, glued to body nope....this is the main challenge I have this coming days, finally setting this one up to my likings, again hope I get some time to adjust this.

Overall a magnificent guitar with to my taste, the greatest finish of this Modern series. 

The green seafoam I really did not like even if liking green guitars. The red finish on the contrary was a stronger competitor since I always liked red but I did not really see the burst. Very subtle but also beautiful.

What I really did not like were the horrible translucid nobs, I immediately changed them to a more suitable black top hats with silver top and now it has the nobs she deseves. Have another guitar these translucid could actually be perfect for a ETB studio Les Paul....time will tell

Overall a magnificent guitar.