Hello everybody,
a kind help from Your part is really needed.
Mostly I play "clean" Blues, Jazz (à la Wes) and some Progressive-Rock.
I usually play through a Bruno Cowtipper 45 matched together with a Clark Piedmont.
I already own 3 Strats and an Ibanez AM 200 (semi-hollow, humbucking-equipped).
I would like a guitar "richer", "rounder", "thicker" (fatter) sounding than a Strat but still more dynamic, more detailed, harmonically richer and sweeter than an humbucking-equipped guitar.
Tone-wise I read great things about two totally different "beasts": the 56 Goldtop Les Paul and the 51 Nocaster (the relevant Custom Shop versions).
Unluckily I have no chance to test any of them.
So, please, I'm asking for a kind help from someone who tonally knows them both.
Tone-wise, how would You compare them ??
(I'm talking about the CLEAN sound of the relevant neck pickups ONLY)
Looking forward to hearing from You, thank You so much indeed in advance for any precious help You'll be kind enough to give me.

a kind help from Your part is really needed.
Mostly I play "clean" Blues, Jazz (à la Wes) and some Progressive-Rock.
I usually play through a Bruno Cowtipper 45 matched together with a Clark Piedmont.
I already own 3 Strats and an Ibanez AM 200 (semi-hollow, humbucking-equipped).
I would like a guitar "richer", "rounder", "thicker" (fatter) sounding than a Strat but still more dynamic, more detailed, harmonically richer and sweeter than an humbucking-equipped guitar.
Tone-wise I read great things about two totally different "beasts": the 56 Goldtop Les Paul and the 51 Nocaster (the relevant Custom Shop versions).
Unluckily I have no chance to test any of them.
So, please, I'm asking for a kind help from someone who tonally knows them both.
Tone-wise, how would You compare them ??
(I'm talking about the CLEAN sound of the relevant neck pickups ONLY)
Looking forward to hearing from You, thank You so much indeed in advance for any precious help You'll be kind enough to give me.