Originally Posted by: Dennis LoganI own an Eric Clapton spec Stratocaster guitar that features an extreme V-shaped neck and three gold Fender-Lace™ Sensor pickups with a 25 db active mid-boost circuit with 11-guage strings. I love this guitar.

But......it does NOT sound like a "Les Paul".

I took my guitar to Guitar Center. I pluged into the same amp, both my Strat and a Standard Les Paul. I adjust both guitar's settings to be equal and played the same notes. The Les Paul sounded so much better. There is no doubt that the Gibson Les Paul is a higher quality and better sounding guitar.

The Les Paul is about 50% heavier than a Strat, but that's the only disadvantage other than the 50% higher cost.

I would buy a Gibson Les Paul guitar.
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.............................................. First... That's your opinion... Secondly, it's a biased one... If you compare the sound of a Stratocaster to the sound of a Gibson and expect them to sound the same... you're outside your mind... and obviously missing a point somewhere... Strats aren't suppose to sound like Les Pauls. They're the exact opposite kind of guitars... Comparing the two and saying that it's a bad thing that your Strat doesn't sound like an LP makes me wonder why you went out and spent 1300 dollars on your EC Strat when you should have just bought an LP in the first place................. Anyway... my point. Don't compare Strats to LPs... you either like one or the other... and they're both good for their own things... but you CAN make a Strat sound like an LP.... I know for a fact that you can... because I've got a double fat strat that will nail any tone you want it to... On the other hand... good luck getting a strat tone out of an lp