Wish it was back: Yamaha Weddington

The Yamaha SG isn't the only non-bolt-on guitar from the manufacturer, the Weddington was another offering but in a singlecut format. If you talk to players who own or have tried the Weddington, chances are, they won't have anything bad to say about these guitars. Many deem the Weddington to be the 'improved' Les Paul with no tonal compromise. The key highlight here would be...

...the instrument's neck heel. There's virtually no neck heel to be seen (or felt) as that portion of the instrument was well beveled to give the player maximum comfort & access. Yes, if only our beloved Les Paul refiners are bold enough to have this feature as a standard revision (oh, there's the Les Paul Axcess, you say- but that's not a standard production...); there would be a sizable group of us who would play our Les Pauls more often because we'd be happier people.

What we have out there right now are many LP-alikes which are fairly successful in penetrating the market to offer us alternatives to the arguably costly Gibsons. Yamaha could join in by reviving the Weddington but the AES models are out there to address the situation in the mean time, tough isn't it? But I really wish the Weddington was back because it'd prove to be a desirable alternative to that singlecut guitar & a good instrument per se.