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The Trogly's Guitar Show I have the Les Paul CM black, I modified it but still i didn’t like it and ended up swapping it to EVH wolfgang special and here it is: ruclips.net/video/VaVPQRKE2tA/видео.html
I was the one buying this guitar in your review. Still my fav till this very day, killing it daily with the band. The happiest guitars are the ones being played often. I got bored of the robo-tuners after a while and swapped it out with Grotoh locks. Otherwise, the zebra pickup is still good for me.
DUDE I HAVE THIS GUITAR!! The one without the tuner in the headstock, dropped around 2016 i picked it up from my local guitar store for about 1200 aud. So worth it its been under my bed in its case ever since.
I know what you mean. I like the choice of pick-ups most of the time but a one pick-up rock machine is great way to play. It strengthens your ear to hand control plus it Looks Cool why people saying, "Yeah, I rock! That's what I do."
One huge advantage of Single Pickup guitars ( Juniors etc ) that most people dont know is - theres NO neck pickup Magnets pulling the strings that give you much more Sustain and its simplicity that makes you get the most out of one pickup .
Same here bro...i wired my strat with a dimarzio tone zone straight to the jack...no tone control...its my favorite go to guitar now...sounds incredible!!!
I have been wanting a single pickup Les Paul for a long time, and I just recently became aware of this model. Definitely going to pick one up, especially since CM are my initials!
I just received my Les Paul CM two days ago, it's had a few mods installed, (Sperzel Locking Tuners & a Seymour Duncan JB) and so far, I'm really likng it! The craftmanship is great, neck is the perfect size for me, and the lighter weight is a relief for me, after playing my 9 lb. Standard and 10 lb. Custom for years. the single humbucker is a great idea, I wish Gibson made a few more models with them. I got it for $400, less than a new Epiphone .No complaints here.
I own the 2016 CM T model of this guitar (no robo-tuners) and I love it - it's my favorite guitar! It's lightweight, comfortable, easy to play, fits perfectly in my hands. Love the satin finish. Looks awesome. Got a good deal, too, back in 2016 because I got an open box special...little ding on the head stock, that's about it. I found the 61 Zebra pickup a bit bright to my ear, so I switched it out for a Seymour Duncan JB but, otherwise, everything is stock (and the intonation is almost perfect).
I bought one of these brand new in 2017, a CM T, for something like $630 with tax. I think I had it for maybe three months, and sold it for $250. That sucked.
I saw two of these at a sam ash in clearwater florida in early spring of this year on vacation they were real cheap like around $400.0 thought about buying it and having them mail it to my house. I have a less paul jr. From 2015 with the g force system. I use this guitar all the time for different tunings. You have to download load the instructions from gibson and do the recalibration mode every time you change strings and it works perfectly. Love the g force for playing different tunings on the fly. Using this guitar now to learn system of a down they play alot of tunes in drop c. Need to play a song in half step down or drop d or standard tunning takes 30 seconds but the key is to do all of the recalibration modes when you change strings. Also changed p 90 pickup to a duncan double stack p90 had to make the route hole deeper for that to fit.
You can also make your own tunings. It`s useful when you want to play something with a tuning different than A=440Hz. Some older songs have guitars tuned to different pitch than 440Hz- Jimi Hendricks for example.
@@Duke_Silver exactly ! i dont think they should have put it on every model that year. i bought the les paul jr because it was cheap and was willing to take a risk on it. I use this guitar all the time for giging out. Your right about doing the custom tunings on it were it might be a quarter pitch higher or lower to play along with some songs. You have to do the calibration stuff when you change strings every time and mine works perfect.
@@jerryfraker377 Yeah, I agree. I bought these tuners from Tronical, because I was curious if they`re any good. I wouldn`t put them on all of my guitars, but I think having them on one of your guitars gives you an advantage for changing the tunings fast. I just think they should have some kind of small lcd display, so you wouldn`t have to memorize how to change them, which tuning goes where and so on. But since we start talking about them, I checked the Tronical website and it seems they have a new model with a color display. Now I`m thinking of upgrading, lol
@@Duke_Silver i will look into that myself duke. When i got guitar they didn't give you good istructions on it and i had a hard time with it. Found out you had to download instructions from gibson. Its 29 pages long. This explained everything. I think alot of people didnt do this and probably had tunning accuracy problems because they didn't do the calibrations when the strings were changed and that is why g force gets a bad rap.
CM Punk, the wrestler that tried to go fight in the UFC disclosed that the CM in his name stood for Chick Magnet just a few months before this guitar got its name. Punk was an enormously popular wrestler who was covered in tattoos and had kind of a punk persona.
I have one and really like it! I changed the tuners to black locking Grovers and put a Buddha pickup in. Fun to play! Thanks fit the great review! Always fun to learn about one of my own guitars!
Im into 1 pick-up guitars now...after realizing thats where i spend 99% of my time...i turned my japanese strat into a single humbucker guitar...put a tone zone in the bridge and wired it straigbt to the jack...that guitar is a freakin beast now..i love it!!!!
As anyone who has ever read any of my comments when Austin reviews a single pickup guitar should know, I do not like single pickup guitars lol. I have the Sully Erna which is a single pickup and I love it but I always wish I had another pickup there lol. That being said, I like this CM model! Of course I still wish it had two pups but as it stands I like the looks of this one and the price is much more where In would expect a single pup to be at and not the crazy stupid price of a Junior. When You sell a single pup guitar that is also a flat top for the same price as a regular carved top two pup model, I think that's crazy, the ones who pay that price are even crazier lol. This guitar has some sass to it and individuality to it. Now I will say that the single pup guitars should get a little more sustain, but that's not always the case if they put a less powerful pup in it. I really liked the floyd rose model as well! I think CM stands for something that Gibson doesn't want to tell us what it means..to Gibson. What's a word that does not start with a C but the C is sort of more pronounced that the actual first letter of the word? A word that would fit with this kind of a guitar, inexpensive, downgraded model? eConomy Model! I bet you anything this is what CM really stands for but Gibson didn't go with EM because people would figure out what that means. Just my guess and opinion but I think I am right. Austin, we haven't heard the Trogly theme in awhile, you sort of played it here lol. Almost at 70k subscribers!!
@@stepvanjoe3469 Well I guess if it's made by Gibson or Epiphone, has that shape and is made of those woods and the electronics are placed as they are and other appointments as well, then it's a Les Paul. This one does not bother me nearly as much as those Les Paul Junior's. As far as I know the juniors are all flat tops, but it does seem there were a few with the carved top. As I have said many times before, to me the single most irritating thing about the juniors is their price. If you go right now to the Gibson web page you will see that a brand new 2019 Gibson Les Paul Studio is selling for $1,499.00 As I am sure you know, the Studio's have everything a Standard has except.. no binding and sometimes lesser grade pickups.Other than that, the Studio is a regular Les Paul. Right next to the Studio you can find the brand new 2019 Gibson Les Paul Junior and it is selling for $1,499.00!! No carved top,one pickup, ugly colors and no three way switch, also no binding. How can anyone justify paying the same price for literally half the guitar? People say , " Because it's a Junior!!" and I say, so what? Even used, the Juniors are still being sold for as much if not more than a studio. I just will never understand the attraction to these single pup guitars, when they are being sold at these prices. One that is $600 or less? OK, maybe, but anything over that I think is a rip off.
I have a 2016 CM that came stock with the G Force, the weird large black knobs with knurls in it, titanium nut, PCB electronics (still has the '61 Lead humbucking) and a slightly higher end Gibson gigbag than what yours shows. I think mine might be the CM HP model as opposed to the traditional CM that you have. I bought it for $250 Canadian as a used instrument, got rid of the G Force tuners in a trade, and currently the guitar is with my tech for a pelham blue refin, a changeover to creme plastics, and a set of nickel Grovers. Very excited to get that guitar back early next year!
Those both 2014 Melody Maker and this CM are my new favourites. All Melody Makers.. The SG.. Chick Magnet!!!.. Series Parallel switch that pickup and it's gold
Lots of stock pots have a bad/poor taper for guitar applications as I'm sure your aware more then most. But luckily replacing pots is a very easy thing to do with something nicer or more specific to what you want. But in your situation it makes perfect sense why you would leave it stock unless maybe a customer requested the upgrade. I always replace the tone pots and before installing the new ones I open the new pot and scratch off a tiny bit of the conductive material so from 1 - 9.8 it's a regular pot but after 9.8 it's a no load pot. It's easy to do as long as you take a little off at a time and check it in between taking little bits off with a multimeter. Razor blade, dust off, electronics cleaner an a multimeter and you can turn any pot into a no load pot(We'll almost any pot lol, as long as your able to access the wiper an pad/trace). You can buy no load pots as most people are aware but they'll cost more and reduce your options so I prefer to just buy the pot I want a make it myself. But id love to find a way to make a dimple at the point of the pot where it goes from regular to no load so you can feel it and know if your using the regular pot or the no load section which is what Bournes no load pots do. Also I recently discovered the massive tonal difference by wiring my 2 humbucker 2 volume guitars the gibson way of coupled volume pots. I'd always wired them decoupled so I could blend the pickups better in the middle position but up until recently I had no idea how much top end and clarity I was loosing by wiring the volumes decoupled like that. Coupled sounds much much better and retains much more of the pickups tone. The only draw back is they don't blend as well in the middle position but it's completely worth it. I also went from always using audio pots for everything which works better for decoupled wired volume pots to using linear volumes and an audio tone pot. Which is the more traditional way but I never liked linear pots with decoupled volumes. I think that's why you get so many different opinions on which pots are best to use where, it really comes down to how your wiring your pots and how you want them to taper, there's a ton of different ways to do it all with their pros an cons. Even two pairs of pots of the same type and value can vairy dramatically as far as how they taper which makes it even more confusing to a beginner. For anyone reading this who doesn't know how their volumes are wired it's easy to find out. If your in the middle position and you roll one volume all the way off and leave the other turned up and all sound cuts out your guitar is wired the gibson way (Coupled/Dependent) and if you do the same thing but you still have sound from the pickup that's still turned up then your guitars wired for decoupled/indepemdent volume pots. I wish I would have known sooner that any benefit you might get with decoupled pots is heavily overshadowed by the fact it causes you to loose a lot of high end etc. Switching the wiring from decoupled to coupled or vice versa is very simple. You'd just reverse the wires on the volume pots. So you leave the ground lug alone as it is and reverse the other two wires. Anyways that was quite an off topic ramble, lol sorry.
A friend had one of these and I absolutely loved it, he couldn’t get on with it. He sold it for £300 for a quick sale. If he’d have waited two days I’d have had his arm off for it.
@@Trog wow, I remember buying mine in 06 for just over $2000 with tax and overnight shipping. It was the best guitar I ever owned as far as overall craftsmanship, fretting, binding, weight and overall feel. Unfortunately, I got divorced a few years later and had to sell and down grade for the time being. They've almost doubled in price! Edit: I loved those Sperzel Locking tunners too. There wasn't a thing I didn't like about it.
I tried to be into the Les Paul before I bought my Gibson SG and I just didn't like the weight of the LP and the SG felt like it was floating away after I put the LP down. Maybe this is the Les Paul to break the SG guys into the single cut market. Frankly I really want to try a CM now.
I have this guitar and love it with my Life, the neck feels better than my SG tribute 2019. Even if it just have that zebra humbucker in the bridge the Tone control can delyver a kind of jazz sound also.
I bought mine in 2016 for £400. That was the first Gibson I owned. I got a love-hate relationship with it for years mostly because of the thick neck shape, until I changed the pickup to Bare Knuckle Nailbomb- that`s when I started to really appreciate this guitar. Mine doesn`t have this cool seethrough finish, it`s rather all black, and I was little dissapointed by that.
I guess the lead is that long because it is the Rhythm Pickup in the Bridge Position. I like the double contact jack. The G Force Tuners are a pretty high end feature along with the jack, belly cut and the textured control plate, and the thick fretboard. Thanks
I really love the LP (and especially the SG) "CM Black" with the FRX, even though I've heard the FRX is not that great. I'd love to see them reviewed by you. Or the SG Menace from 2006-08.
SamFisher338 frx is beast if you set it up right..as you can see I installed a chrome one on my silverburst lp & you can do extreme barring and it holds tune(never goes out of tune for me). My previous experience is with strat trem & Ibanez double locking & frx blows them away..the thing is setup..if not done correctly touching bar will throw you outta tube. Another pro is it’s entirely surface mount(no routing) if for whatever reason you’d like to convert back to stoptail
@@kodas3366 Doesn't it force you to have very high action though? I've seen people (and pictures) saying that it does since it's so tall from the body surface, and that it's also uncomfortable itself because of the shape. But the concept appeals a lot to me.
I mean..it’d work with super low action, but you’d have to route to accommodate tension screw lowering(floating bridge has to be at certain angle for trem stop ball to function properly giving it that emphasized away from body appearance) Atm I’ve got it as low as it’ll go without doing that.
It’s a little 1/6” or so wide screw that’s 1 side of tension(it moves when you use bar) lowest piece of bridge. Logically you could drop the action as low as you desire with work..
nice guitar, single piece wraparound stoptail also adds a nice rubbery pick attack/string attack, Billy Joe Armstrong Green Day power chords. the wraparound's are sounding better than a two-piece bridge to me lately.
For the 2016 model CM T there is an alternate that is the CM HP. I got one from the gibson demo shop. There isn't a lot different about it, mostly that I can see is that the heal joint is sculpted. Maybe that could be added as the 6th model listed?
Thank You for this through review . I have the 2015 model . Its the easiest playing guitar i've ever owned . The frets were plecked at the factory . The action and intonation is perfect . The perfect guitar for me , highly recommended
Great video-thanks.Bought one of the 2015 's 2nd hand on a whim a few yeas ago for what was a very modest price for an authentic Gibson Les Paul and I love it-great feel to it and the neck seems to work really well for me,the build quality is excellent and it looks totally cool..I'm ok with the G Force -you can pre set alternate tunings so its my go to for anything with a alt tune and slide.Probably the best value guitar I have ever bought and I reckon they will appreciate in value over the long term.Oh-I always thought CM was simply "Custom Model"?
Please get the SG CM black on sometime, that looks sick. I think I want that more than any gibson I've seen on here (not that I can afford or need more guitars).
Not bad for the casual player that sits in his room playen tunes from what ever he likes. I wouldn't mind it because it has the bridge pickup only dor southern rock bluestone grunge it seems like a fun affordable little light weight guitar
I had this guitar for a couple months. It’s under 7 lbs and it’s a neck diver from hell. I could not deal with it and sold it. I bought a studio with a neck pick up too
Everybody hates the GForce, but I look at it from a different point of view - the system is great, especially for us players with fine motor skills problems, who should never have been able to play if the doctors had their say, but managed to learn by ourselves with a lot of willpower and determination. I'm a professional musician, have been playing guitar for 28 years now (since I was 17) and I have to say the GForce works very well (I have a 2015 Goldtop and this one), very reliable on stage, never fails for a quick tuning. I recommend it strongly, too bad that Gibson stopped manufacturing it. If somebody doesn't like the system, they can always take it off or buy a different model. :-) It should stay as an option at least on some models.
I quite like the simplicity on this model, but the final price tag was the appropriate one, $700 can get you a lot more guitar elsewhere, but as said $350-400 seems appropriate for this one.
i love guitars with no pick guard and only one pick up. i play with my fingers and it just feels better having all that clean space. tonal palette i can get is more interesting too imo
That thing screams... me! A satin black, thinner body with belly contour and carved top LP?! Sign me in! If this was to keep, I'd just get a neck pup routed into it. Damn, you really don't ship to Europe, Austin, don't you? Ah, just kidding, sweet guitar!
@@stepvanjoe3469 oh, massive rip... I've assumed it was among the lines of my PRS SE, which is really well balanced in that aspect and not even in sitting position it neck dives.
I want to plug the holes for the lower tailpiece and throw one of these wrap around bridges on my SG. Would the posts line up? Want to do a black single pup SG next? :)
If you are asking if Bridge posts line up with tail piece posts the answer is no. The tail piece posts are wider and larger than bridge posts. I guess you can pull out the bridge posts, plug the holes, then re-drill them. At that point it would be easier to buy a SG that already has a wraparound bridge.
nathan popejoy I was actually asking if the wrap around bridge would fit the posts of the original bridge allowing me to swap it out without any modifications :) and after thinking about it, I don’t see why it wouldn’t, plugging the holes for the tail piece is the only thing holding me back at this point. And the particular SG I’m talking about is my main guitar and an SG-1 that I completely modded out, love it dearly and couldn’t replace it, but I don’t see too many single pickup SGs out there
I wish Gibson would just put out a cheap Les Paul builders guitar or an up grade able model. So you can add to it. That guitar would be nice for a builders model to up grade when you can afford it. I would like to put a two-piece bridge on it amongst other things.
Have you ever done an Epiphone Inspired by 1966 Century yet? You should do a comparison with a vintage 1960s Gibson ES 125 T and the Epiphone Inspired by 1966 Century. They are almost identical guitars.
A really cool video could be a review of those single dog ear p90, single cutaway 2000’s flat top melody maker. These things are amazing. Rock and roll machines. Por mans junior
I really enjoyed this episode. I love those type of Gibsons. I've owned a Gibson Custom Shop Tom DeLonge, an original 1958 DC Les Paul Junior in Cherry, 3 different 2003 Melody Maker Les Pauls in Black, Cherry & Yellow and a PRS One SE in White(there take on a Junior but with just a volume, no tone & a soapbar P-90) so I get why you like these. It sounded fantastic! I'm gonna look for one when I can afford another guitar.
It must be something about single pick up guitars. I’ve got a epiphone sg jr in tv yellow. When I got it. It came with a bigsby on it. But I can’t find any others with a bigsby. So I figured that someone installed it? Who knows?!? But this little sg is just ALL BALLS!! But different from this Gibson. My little sg has big 500k pots and they actually function like volume and tone controls should. I can change the sound crazy different with just some dialing in. I’ve been very happy and surprised with my new friend
As an owner of a 2015 and a 2016 model the only difference is the finish. The 2016 has a thicker more gloss like finish. When I bought the 2016 at Sam Ash the associate did refer to it as the "chick magnet" model.
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Mentioned Videos:
2014 Gibson Melody Maker: ruclips.net/video/VNZaDEbMEJw/видео.html
Gibson Victory CM: ruclips.net/video/f-fRWQuBnfs/видео.html
Joe Perry Studio Wah Circuit: ruclips.net/video/jXVzFwc2L60/видео.html
Sully Erna Les Paul Studio: ruclips.net/video/Thp2-1Gz0-c/видео.html
Kazuyoshi Saito Les Paul: ruclips.net/video/AVmmNlu2_-E/видео.html
Episode Guide:
0:14 - Les Paul CM
0:47 - How Much?
1:26 - The CM Models
3:31 - What Does CM Mean?
4:19 - The Untold Story of CM
6:57 - Inside Look / Specs
12:47 - Tone Demo
14:21 - Tone Talk
16:37 - Final Thoughts
18:02 - Condition
19:32 - Blacklight
20:03 - Gig Bag
The Trogly's Guitar Show I have the Les Paul CM black, I modified it but still i didn’t like it and ended up swapping it to EVH wolfgang special
and here it is:
ruclips.net/video/VaVPQRKE2tA/видео.html
It's an inside joke because wrestler CM Punk disclosed that the CM in his name stands for Chick Magnet.
Wow.. already sold
You sell these so fast lol
Imma have to call BS on this CM explanation, the Chick Magnet joke would have made no sense in the early 80's.
I was the one buying this guitar in your review. Still my fav till this very day, killing it daily with the band. The happiest guitars are the ones being played often. I got bored of the robo-tuners after a while and swapped it out with Grotoh locks. Otherwise, the zebra pickup is still good for me.
This channel is hands down the best on RUclips. Only one I look forward to each day.
I just put regular tuners on mine and drilling those pilot holes was a test of nerves to start but easier than I thought.
@Lee Wilcox I personally think Hipshot tuners are ugly and would never put them on one of my guitars.
DUDE I HAVE THIS GUITAR!! The one without the tuner in the headstock, dropped around 2016 i picked it up from my local guitar store for about 1200 aud. So worth it its been under my bed in its case ever since.
You leave that poor guitar in the dark under your bed instead of playing it!?
Just kidding
yo would you consider selling it? im looking to buy one!!
@@dzydzy101 Still looking? I have one.
@@Tiago_007 how much?
You made me wanted 1 pickup guitar even more than before
I know what you mean. I like the choice of pick-ups most of the time but a one pick-up rock machine is great way to play. It strengthens your ear to hand control plus it Looks Cool why people saying, "Yeah, I rock! That's what I do."
@@therugburnz so true, it's would be an ultimate punk rock machine for me.. all my heroes play 1 pickup guitars, Billie Joe Armstrong & Tom Delonge
One huge advantage of Single Pickup guitars ( Juniors etc ) that most people dont know is - theres NO neck pickup Magnets pulling the strings that give you much more Sustain and its simplicity that makes you get the most out of one pickup .
Same here bro...i wired my strat with a dimarzio tone zone straight to the jack...no tone control...its my favorite go to guitar now...sounds incredible!!!
Same.
I have been wanting a single pickup Les Paul for a long time, and I just recently became aware of this model.
Definitely going to pick one up, especially since CM are my initials!
I have both 2 from precision guitar with custom Duncan pickup . The sound is great
Thank you for putting the Episode Guide in the comments! I REALLY appreciate it.
I just received my Les Paul CM two days ago, it's had a few mods installed, (Sperzel Locking Tuners & a Seymour Duncan JB) and so far, I'm really likng it! The craftmanship is great, neck is the perfect size for me, and the lighter weight is a relief for me, after playing my 9 lb. Standard and 10 lb. Custom for years. the single humbucker is a great idea, I wish Gibson made a few more models with them. I got it for $400, less than a new Epiphone .No complaints here.
I own the 2016 CM T model of this guitar (no robo-tuners) and I love it - it's my favorite guitar! It's lightweight, comfortable, easy to play, fits perfectly in my hands. Love the satin finish. Looks awesome. Got a good deal, too, back in 2016 because I got an open box special...little ding on the head stock, that's about it. I found the 61 Zebra pickup a bit bright to my ear, so I switched it out for a Seymour Duncan JB but, otherwise, everything is stock (and the intonation is almost perfect).
Great coverage on the history and detail of this model. Man, the crunch sound is wicked on this one!
I bought one of these brand new in 2017, a CM T, for something like $630 with tax. I think I had it for maybe three months, and sold it for $250.
That sucked.
I saw two of these at a sam ash in clearwater florida in early spring of this year on vacation they were real cheap like around $400.0 thought about buying it and having them mail it to my house. I have a less paul jr. From 2015 with the g force system. I use this guitar all the time for different tunings. You have to download load the instructions from gibson and do the recalibration mode every time you change strings and it works perfectly. Love the g force for playing different tunings on the fly. Using this guitar now to learn system of a down they play alot of tunes in drop c. Need to play a song in half step down or drop d or standard tunning takes 30 seconds but the key is to do all of the recalibration modes when you change strings. Also changed p 90 pickup to a duncan double stack p90 had to make the route hole deeper for that to fit.
You can also make your own tunings. It`s useful when you want to play something with a tuning different than A=440Hz. Some older songs have guitars tuned to different pitch than 440Hz- Jimi Hendricks for example.
@@Duke_Silver exactly ! i dont think they should have put it on every model that year. i bought the les paul jr because it was cheap and was willing to take a risk on it. I use this guitar all the time for giging out. Your right about doing the custom tunings on it were it might be a quarter pitch higher or lower to play along with some songs. You have to do the calibration stuff when you change strings every time and mine works perfect.
@@jerryfraker377 Yeah, I agree. I bought these tuners from Tronical, because I was curious if they`re any good. I wouldn`t put them on all of my guitars, but I think having them on one of your guitars gives you an advantage for changing the tunings fast. I just think they should have some kind of small lcd display, so you wouldn`t have to memorize how to change them, which tuning goes where and so on. But since we start talking about them, I checked the Tronical website and it seems they have a new model with a color display. Now I`m thinking of upgrading, lol
@@Duke_Silver i will look into that myself duke. When i got guitar they didn't give you good istructions on it and i had a hard time with it. Found out you had to download instructions from gibson. Its 29 pages long. This explained everything. I think alot of people didnt do this and probably had tunning accuracy problems because they didn't do the calibrations when the strings were changed and that is why g force gets a bad rap.
@@Duke_Silver thanks for info Duke on tronical i will be looking at that for a backup unit for this guitar.
That's a gorgeous guitar. LPs aint my thing but this one would be down my alley..
"CM": Cheap Model
CM Punk, the wrestler that tried to go fight in the UFC disclosed that the CM in his name stood for Chick Magnet just a few months before this guitar got its name. Punk was an enormously popular wrestler who was covered in tattoos and had kind of a punk persona.
lol more like "Kick Magnet"...dude got schooled and was out of the ufc in a right hurry
CM Punk for years said the CM in his name meant Chicago Made...
@@kirkprell4493 no he recently came clean that it meant chick magnet, right around the time they would have named this guitar.
Yeah this guitar is perfect for playing Cult of Personality by Living Colour
This has nothing to do with anything
I have one of these, replaced the tuners and bridge .... use it for D standard and love it......
I have one and really like it! I changed the tuners to black locking Grovers and put a Buddha pickup in. Fun to play! Thanks fit the great review! Always fun to learn about one of my own guitars!
Im into 1 pick-up guitars now...after realizing thats where i spend 99% of my time...i turned my japanese strat into a single humbucker guitar...put a tone zone in the bridge and wired it straigbt to the jack...that guitar is a freakin beast now..i love it!!!!
I guess this guitar is doing so well that prices actually gone up. I really would like one and put a p90 in
As anyone who has ever read any of my comments when Austin reviews a single pickup guitar should know, I do not like single pickup guitars lol. I have the Sully Erna which is a single pickup and I love it but I always wish I had another pickup there lol. That being said, I like this CM model! Of course I still wish it had two pups but as it stands I like the looks of this one and the price is much more where In would expect a single pup to be at and not the crazy stupid price of a Junior. When You sell a single pup guitar that is also a flat top for the same price as a regular carved top two pup model, I think that's crazy, the ones who pay that price are even crazier lol. This guitar has some sass to it and individuality to it. Now I will say that the single pup guitars should get a little more sustain, but that's not always the case if they put a less powerful pup in it. I really liked the floyd rose model as well!
I think CM stands for something that Gibson doesn't want to tell us what it means..to Gibson. What's a word that does not start with a C but the C is sort of more pronounced that the actual first letter of the word? A word that would fit with this kind of a guitar, inexpensive, downgraded model? eConomy Model! I bet you anything this is what CM really stands for but Gibson didn't go with EM because people would figure out what that means. Just my guess and opinion but I think I am right. Austin, we haven't heard the Trogly theme in awhile, you sort of played it here lol. Almost at 70k subscribers!!
Ron Just Ron Rigs of dads
You may be right as to what CM mean because I have always thought that's where they were going with the model name
Furthermore I cannot see how this can even be called a Les Paul
@@stepvanjoe3469 Well I guess if it's made by Gibson or Epiphone, has that shape and is made of those woods and the electronics are placed as they are and other appointments as well, then it's a Les Paul. This one does not bother me nearly as much as those Les Paul Junior's. As far as I know the juniors are all flat tops, but it does seem there were a few with the carved top. As I have said many times before, to me the single most irritating thing about the juniors is their price. If you go right now to the Gibson web page you will see that a brand new 2019 Gibson Les Paul Studio is selling for $1,499.00 As I am sure you know, the Studio's have everything a Standard has except.. no binding and sometimes lesser grade pickups.Other than that, the Studio is a regular Les Paul. Right next to the Studio you can find the brand new 2019 Gibson Les Paul Junior and it is selling for $1,499.00!! No carved top,one pickup, ugly colors and no three way switch, also no binding. How can anyone justify paying the same price for literally half the guitar? People say , " Because it's a Junior!!" and I say, so what? Even used, the Juniors are still being sold for as much if not more than a studio. I just will never understand the attraction to these single pup guitars, when they are being sold at these prices. One that is $600 or less? OK, maybe, but anything over that I think is a rip off.
Ron Just Ron
I found my 2015 jr hanging in Sam Ash in Tampa, Fl. Brand new, perfect condition with the gold hard case and everything. $500. 😃
I have a 2016 CM that came stock with the G Force, the weird large black knobs with knurls in it, titanium nut, PCB electronics (still has the '61 Lead humbucking) and a slightly higher end Gibson gigbag than what yours shows. I think mine might be the CM HP model as opposed to the traditional CM that you have. I bought it for $250 Canadian as a used instrument, got rid of the G Force tuners in a trade, and currently the guitar is with my tech for a pelham blue refin, a changeover to creme plastics, and a set of nickel Grovers. Very excited to get that guitar back early next year!
Ya you got the HP model. I got my 2016 at Long & McQuade and has witches teeth for tuners
@@joker71172 the original tag was still on the case for $1,029 CAD, hah.
@@WillyKidd mine was on sale last Fall for $899 CAD
Thank god back to Gibson
I have a Les Paul CM. I really like it. Made the mistake of replacing the original pickup with a Gibson 48T. Prolly should put the original back......
Those both 2014 Melody Maker and this CM are my new favourites. All Melody Makers.. The SG.. Chick Magnet!!!.. Series Parallel switch that pickup and it's gold
I`m using a Seymour Duncan Triple Shot pickup ring on mine.
Lots of stock pots have a bad/poor taper for guitar applications as I'm sure your aware more then most. But luckily replacing pots is a very easy thing to do with something nicer or more specific to what you want. But in your situation it makes perfect sense why you would leave it stock unless maybe a customer requested the upgrade. I always replace the tone pots and before installing the new ones I open the new pot and scratch off a tiny bit of the conductive material so from 1 - 9.8 it's a regular pot but after 9.8 it's a no load pot. It's easy to do as long as you take a little off at a time and check it in between taking little bits off with a multimeter. Razor blade, dust off, electronics cleaner an a multimeter and you can turn any pot into a no load pot(We'll almost any pot lol, as long as your able to access the wiper an pad/trace). You can buy no load pots as most people are aware but they'll cost more and reduce your options so I prefer to just buy the pot I want a make it myself. But id love to find a way to make a dimple at the point of the pot where it goes from regular to no load so you can feel it and know if your using the regular pot or the no load section which is what Bournes no load pots do. Also I recently discovered the massive tonal difference by wiring my 2 humbucker 2 volume guitars the gibson way of coupled volume pots. I'd always wired them decoupled so I could blend the pickups better in the middle position but up until recently I had no idea how much top end and clarity I was loosing by wiring the volumes decoupled like that. Coupled sounds much much better and retains much more of the pickups tone. The only draw back is they don't blend as well in the middle position but it's completely worth it. I also went from always using audio pots for everything which works better for decoupled wired volume pots to using linear volumes and an audio tone pot. Which is the more traditional way but I never liked linear pots with decoupled volumes. I think that's why you get so many different opinions on which pots are best to use where, it really comes down to how your wiring your pots and how you want them to taper, there's a ton of different ways to do it all with their pros an cons. Even two pairs of pots of the same type and value can vairy dramatically as far as how they taper which makes it even more confusing to a beginner. For anyone reading this who doesn't know how their volumes are wired it's easy to find out. If your in the middle position and you roll one volume all the way off and leave the other turned up and all sound cuts out your guitar is wired the gibson way (Coupled/Dependent) and if you do the same thing but you still have sound from the pickup that's still turned up then your guitars wired for decoupled/indepemdent volume pots. I wish I would have known sooner that any benefit you might get with decoupled pots is heavily overshadowed by the fact it causes you to loose a lot of high end etc. Switching the wiring from decoupled to coupled or vice versa is very simple. You'd just reverse the wires on the volume pots. So you leave the ground lug alone as it is and reverse the other two wires. Anyways that was quite an off topic ramble, lol sorry.
That truss rod cover is actually pretty smart looking. I'd like to see that on other models.
The Black models are so nice looking. That is the first time I have ever seen those.
A friend had one of these and I absolutely loved it, he couldn’t get on with it. He sold it for £300 for a quick sale. If he’d have waited two days I’d have had his arm off for it.
picked one up locally the other day, making into a Les Paul Jr by putting in a P90, pretty cool little guitar
I love your videos. I could listen to your voice talking about axes all day!
As a fan of blink182, i like every guitar with a only humbucker.
When do we get our tom delonge signature guitar review
@@nickzottola when I can find one for $3500 haha
@@Trog True his gibsons are super expensive, you should get one of his fenders though!
The Trogly's Guitar Show or you could get an epi for 600 new, I just ordered mine
@@Trog wow, I remember buying mine in 06 for just over $2000 with tax and overnight shipping. It was the best guitar I ever owned as far as overall craftsmanship, fretting, binding, weight and overall feel. Unfortunately, I got divorced a few years later and had to sell and down grade for the time being. They've almost doubled in price! Edit: I loved those Sperzel Locking tunners too. There wasn't a thing I didn't like about it.
I really like this one . Simple & beautiful. Sounds great and I bet it's especially comfortable with the belly cut.
Perfect guitar for me! I only use the bridge pup on my LPs! My future axe for certain! Blues machine I’d say?!?!?
I tried to be into the Les Paul before I bought my Gibson SG and I just didn't like the weight of the LP and the SG felt like it was floating away after I put the LP down. Maybe this is the Les Paul to break the SG guys into the single cut market. Frankly I really want to try a CM now.
Great upload Austin thank you for your show
I so much wanted Les Paul black with single humbucker so I order for precision guitar Canada . It’s great.
Played these in stores before. Really great instruments
I just got one of these. An amazing Guitar!!
I have this guitar and love it with my Life, the neck feels better than my SG tribute 2019. Even if it just have that zebra humbucker in the bridge the Tone control can delyver a kind of jazz sound also.
I bought mine in 2016 for £400. That was the first Gibson I owned. I got a love-hate relationship with it for years mostly because of the thick neck shape, until I changed the pickup to Bare Knuckle Nailbomb- that`s when I started to really appreciate this guitar. Mine doesn`t have this cool seethrough finish, it`s rather all black, and I was little dissapointed by that.
I remember debating between buying a CM T or a Studio T back in 2016. Went with a Studio, and couldn't be happier.
My 2016 came on a killer Gibson gig bag, too!
Good start to the beginning of the week.
What ever happened to that learn along series you were planning on doing?
I guess the lead is that long because it is the Rhythm Pickup in the Bridge Position. I like the double contact jack. The G Force Tuners are a pretty high end feature along with the jack, belly cut and the textured control plate, and the thick fretboard. Thanks
I really love the LP (and especially the SG) "CM Black" with the FRX, even though I've heard the FRX is not that great. I'd love to see them reviewed by you. Or the SG Menace from 2006-08.
SamFisher338 frx is beast if you set it up right..as you can see I installed a chrome one on my silverburst lp & you can do extreme barring and it holds tune(never goes out of tune for me). My previous experience is with strat trem & Ibanez double locking & frx blows them away..the thing is setup..if not done correctly touching bar will throw you outta tube. Another pro is it’s entirely surface mount(no routing) if for whatever reason you’d like to convert back to stoptail
@@kodas3366 Doesn't it force you to have very high action though? I've seen people (and pictures) saying that it does since it's so tall from the body surface, and that it's also uncomfortable itself because of the shape. But the concept appeals a lot to me.
I mean..it’d work with super low action, but you’d have to route to accommodate tension screw lowering(floating bridge has to be at certain angle for trem stop ball to function properly giving it that emphasized away from body appearance) Atm I’ve got it as low as it’ll go without doing that.
It’s a little 1/6” or so wide screw that’s 1 side of tension(it moves when you use bar) lowest piece of bridge. Logically you could drop the action as low as you desire with work..
nice guitar, single piece wraparound stoptail also adds a nice rubbery pick attack/string attack, Billy Joe Armstrong Green Day power chords. the wraparound's are sounding better than a two-piece bridge to me lately.
For the 2016 model CM T there is an alternate that is the CM HP. I got one from the gibson demo shop. There isn't a lot different about it, mostly that I can see is that the heal joint is sculpted. Maybe that could be added as the 6th model listed?
Dang, your videos are really addictive for a guitar geek like me
Man, this is actually pretty tempting, and actually within my price range... just barely, but it's in there! Hah!
I recall seeing a Gibson description saying CM = "Carved Maple" ,I haven't watched the video yet so apologies if you said this Austin. :)
Todd Flowers if that’s the case the full mahogany ones wouldn’t be CM
@@dylanzrim1011 I am just telling you what their website said .
Thank You for this through review . I have the 2015 model . Its the easiest playing guitar i've ever owned . The frets were plecked at the factory . The action and intonation is perfect . The perfect guitar for me , highly recommended
Nice little Ace Frehley wrist and fractured mirror on that CM
Ya , I'm going to have to buy one of those.
Man I've been requesting thiiss in every video for like a year
Great video-thanks.Bought one of the 2015 's 2nd hand on a whim a few yeas ago for what was a very modest price for an authentic Gibson Les Paul and I love it-great feel to it and the neck seems to work really well for me,the build quality is excellent and it looks totally cool..I'm ok with the G Force -you can pre set alternate tunings so its my go to for anything with a alt tune and slide.Probably the best value guitar I have ever bought and I reckon they will appreciate in value over the long term.Oh-I always thought CM was simply "Custom Model"?
I put a Gibson 498t in mine. Killer guitar for the money!
Please get the SG CM black on sometime, that looks sick. I think I want that more than any gibson I've seen on here (not that I can afford or need more guitars).
Dang man take a break on vids for a bit! We can wait!
He’s passionate and probably having fun
The spice must flow. Luckily he gets to work from home.
Great review of this neat little guitar , Trogly. I've been curious about this one for a while. (Doesn't sound too bad either!)
Not bad for the casual player that sits in his room playen tunes from what ever he likes. I wouldn't mind it because it has the bridge pickup only dor southern rock bluestone grunge it seems like a fun affordable little light weight guitar
I had this guitar for a couple months. It’s under 7 lbs and it’s a neck diver from hell. I could not deal with it and sold it. I bought a studio with a neck pick up too
I always like to watch your show, then I check the listing on Reverb..and it has already sold. You must be doing great buisness!
I'm a huge fan of The Dopamines, and yeah. I mean, what would Jon have to gain by lying about this? Oh well. Long live the Chucker.
love the look of single bridge pickup guitars, but i cant live with the neck pup
Everybody hates the GForce, but I look at it from a different point of view - the system is great, especially for us players with fine motor skills problems, who should never have been able to play if the doctors had their say, but managed to learn by ourselves with a lot of willpower and determination. I'm a professional musician, have been playing guitar for 28 years now (since I was 17) and I have to say the GForce works very well (I have a 2015 Goldtop and this one), very reliable on stage, never fails for a quick tuning. I recommend it strongly, too bad that Gibson stopped manufacturing it. If somebody doesn't like the system, they can always take it off or buy a different model. :-) It should stay as an option at least on some models.
in today's episode of guitars i dont need, but really kind of want (w p90 and normal tuners).... also yeah Dopamines!
I was just thinking about this yesterday!!!
I'd rock one!
This is my rocker, I play it the most.
I'm never right, so I bought one, love it's feel.... epiphany, CM.... carved maple!
I quite like the simplicity on this model, but the final price tag was the appropriate one, $700 can get you a lot more guitar elsewhere, but as said $350-400 seems appropriate for this one.
your playing is really good in this video! sounds like you've been practicing
I like to see you review a Strat with a humbucker! It’d be interesting to see what you think of the fender humbucker vs the Gibson one
Arent fender humbuckers designed by the guy who designed the original PAFs? Or was that only the wide range humbuckers on thinline teles?
I've owned a couple and the Sam Ash dude told me the original paperwork they got for them from Gibson read Chick Magnet.
But... he also told me the Thunderhorse was an Epiphone only guitar and there wasn’t a Gibson version which we all know is dead wrong.
i love guitars with no pick guard and only one pick up. i play with my fingers and it just feels better having all that clean space. tonal palette i can get is more interesting too imo
I wish I had seen these when they came out. All it needs is a pickup that has a clearer note to note string definition.
That thing screams... me! A satin black, thinner body with belly contour and carved top LP?! Sign me in! If this was to keep, I'd just get a neck pup routed into it. Damn, you really don't ship to Europe, Austin, don't you? Ah, just kidding, sweet guitar!
Good if you don't mind neck dive I got rid of mine because even with the robot tuners removed it's still dived south pretty good.
@@stepvanjoe3469 oh, massive rip... I've assumed it was among the lines of my PRS SE, which is really well balanced in that aspect and not even in sitting position it neck dives.
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stepvan Joe 👀 how much...?
I want to plug the holes for the lower tailpiece and throw one of these wrap around bridges on my SG.
Would the posts line up?
Want to do a black single pup SG next? :)
If you are asking if Bridge posts line up with tail piece posts the answer is no. The tail piece posts are wider and larger than bridge posts. I guess you can pull out the bridge posts, plug the holes, then re-drill them. At that point it would be easier to buy a SG that already has a wraparound bridge.
nathan popejoy I was actually asking if the wrap around bridge would fit the posts of the original bridge allowing me to swap it out without any modifications :) and after thinking about it, I don’t see why it wouldn’t, plugging the holes for the tail piece is the only thing holding me back at this point.
And the particular SG I’m talking about is my main guitar and an SG-1 that I completely modded out, love it dearly and couldn’t replace it, but I don’t see too many single pickup SGs out there
I wish Gibson would just put out a cheap Les Paul builders guitar or an up grade able model. So you can add to it. That guitar would be nice for a builders model to up grade when you can afford it. I would like to put a two-piece bridge on it amongst other things.
I paid $349.99 for mine purchased brand new in a box at Sam Ash on a Thanksgiving sales event in 2016 or 2017.
Have you ever done an Epiphone Inspired by 1966 Century yet? You should do a comparison with a vintage 1960s Gibson ES 125 T and the Epiphone Inspired by 1966 Century. They are almost identical guitars.
Please review 2015 Gibson LPM too
I like the look, and it would be fun to mod. Yeah I'd pay $350 for one.
There's one model you failed to mention. Mine has an axcess style neck joint and circuit board controls. It's a 2016.
A really cool video could be a review of those single dog ear p90, single cutaway 2000’s flat top melody maker. These things are amazing. Rock and roll machines. Por mans junior
I actually love those tuners. I use like, a dozen+ tunings. Dozens if you include the capo
I wonder if you could throw a Jr pickguard on it
I really enjoyed this episode. I love those type of Gibsons. I've owned a Gibson Custom Shop Tom DeLonge, an original 1958 DC Les Paul Junior in Cherry, 3 different 2003 Melody Maker Les Pauls in Black, Cherry & Yellow and a PRS One SE in White(there take on a Junior but with just a volume, no tone & a soapbar P-90) so I get why you like these. It sounded fantastic! I'm gonna look for one when I can afford another guitar.
Cool guitar. Use Grolsch washers for strap locks.
It must be something about single pick up guitars. I’ve got a epiphone sg jr in tv yellow. When I got it. It came with a bigsby on it. But I can’t find any others with a bigsby. So I figured that someone installed it? Who knows?!? But this little sg is just ALL BALLS!! But different from this Gibson. My little sg has big 500k pots and they actually function like volume and tone controls should. I can change the sound crazy different with just some dialing in. I’ve been very happy and surprised with my new friend
It's got some good tonal quality but I prefer having the neck pickup for other options.
Apart from the robot I kinda like the simplicity and look of this cut back Gibbs.. 👍🇦🇺🐨
These would be awesome with a Seymour Duncan P-Rail. Best of both worlds between humbucker and p90.
Man if I had one I'd throw in a P rail, and replace the tone control with a mini toggle for single/hum/p90.
As an owner of a 2015 and a 2016 model the only difference is the finish. The 2016 has a thicker more gloss like finish. When I bought the 2016 at Sam Ash the associate did refer to it as the "chick magnet" model.
the mojo on any one pickup guitar is INSANE. never played a one pickup that i didn’t like
CM was also used in 1981 Gibson victory CM, could it mean China Made ?
I'd rock it! Great punk or rock machine. Good mod platform. Win all around!