The Les Paul dilemma

I hear ya on the LP thing.. I have a love/hate relationship with them.
My 77 is a beast - heavy as a boat anchor, plays OK, but has a tone that is hard to beat. When I'm in the mood for it. I have an ESP Eclipse that plays way better, but doesn't sound quite as good to my ear.

There are many LP style guitars out there that may feel a bit better - Knaggs is a monster (gives the tone with a different feel), and PRS makes great guitars (but their scale is neither LP nor Strat)
 
Before you ditch the idea that the ol' superstrat is firewood, consider the times when you are enjoying the tones from Randy or Sykes' Lesters and they press down on the whammy bar. Once you accept you've been a fool it wakes up the senses to what matters most - talent. You realise you have little of that, so might as well break open a cold one and think about firing up the Crate another time. None of this is from personal experience of course. Apart from the last bit as I've got tons of guitars of various shapes that I wish I could play better.
 
I have a Tom Anderson Cobra solidbody, that has the same wood makeup and scale length as my goldtop LP. Different body shape with the rear cutaway, and laid back armrest. 5 way pickup switch with a pull tone knob to split the coils of both humbuckers in position 3. They also offer the double cutaway Cobra S, but you sacrifice some wood.
 
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