Hey Everybody,
I've had a LP, SG,, and a 335, still have 2 strats, 4 teles, guess you can see what I prefer. I'm not really wild about the necks on a Gibson, and they are heavy guitars. They worked great for playing rock though, and I was goofing around with Skynyrd, AC/DC, Molly Hatchet, and the Doobie Brothers before I started the country stuff. That's why I had all of the Gibson guitars, use to play around with the riffs when I wasn't playing at bluegrass festivals. I was actually working for them when I got my first tele, their comparison to a tele was a knighthawk. It was lighter with single coil pick ups, but the neck was the same as an LP.

I play the teles more than anything, unless I'm doing a blues gig, then I want a strat. The depth of the cutaways make it easier to play higher on the fretboard. I can get there with a tele too, but the cutaway is not as deep. The middle pick up also gets in the way sometimes, that's why I don't use them on country gigs.

JD