rockabilly69

yeah Rich's post already mentioned that along with the wider headstock, push/pull tone pots, and the weight relief. Personally I am not a fan of any weight relief. I like my standard H150s, especially because I modded them with all the electronic and hardware choices that I like, and the one that I bought used was cheap, I got it for right around a grand! Even with the pickups and hardware changes it came in under $1600. My new one I paid around $2300 for and still had to upgrade. Which is still cheaper than a Custom Core these days:) I also had to recuit the nut and dress frets on the H150s. And both of them are considerably heavier than the lighter Custom Cores. I also like the aesthetic touches of the Custom Cores better, especially the bigger headstock, the slightly different lower horn, and the body carve, which I love the look of. That said, I don't like the custom core tuner choices, or the hardware. And most likely I would replace the pickups as I'm not a fan of potted pickups. That's why I don't own one. If I didn't have to upgrade, I would buy a used one.

I see the Standard II to be a more modern guitar, with much more than a different neck size. see Rich's post... Doesn't the Standard II have different bridge, it looks like a thinner ABR type, with the Standard having the older Nashville style?

Although while they're are doing it, they have seriously upped their quality control game. You don't hear many people complaining about file marks along the bindings and fretboard, or ridiculously bad cut nuts these days And I think their custom core LPs rank with some of the best guitars to come out of Kalamazoo.

what a beauty!!!

I love the custom core headstock!

One of the best rock and roll tones that I ever heard in my life was a very early 70's Les Paul Custom plugged straight into a '68 Silverface Twin. Some guy had traded it into Guitar Center and a very good guitarist friend of mine who worked at the store for a while was checking the pair out. It was after closing time so he cranked it and it was awesome. Total rock and roll! If I could afford it at the time I would have bought the combo on site.

I was checking out this video from the Howard Stern show of Kate Hudson's band, and her guitarist used a Custom Core for a few songs. On the original song he does some nice fills, and the rhythm on Vasoline sounds good too.

You could always swap the pickups in the H150 and the LP and see if the tone follows the pickups, then you'll know the answer to that What do I think? Because those pickups aren't potted, I think it's the wood.

This might be a little off course, but if you are looking for low output style PAFs, check out the Duncan Jazz pickup in both neck and bridge, I was taken a back at how good these pickups sounded. A realsleeper set! I liked them better than the Seths and 59's! Great clarity in the neck, and the bridge was perfect for on the edge of distortion sounds with a great mid honk. Here's a set plugged right into my Marshall...

This is the post you were looking for...

This makes the most sense to me.

If you're going to tap frets make sure to have some super thin superglue and accelerator on hand to wick into the fret slots. I can't count the amount of times I've seen tapped in frets pop right back out. As for fall off, I think it's more successful on lower radius fretboards like Fender 7.25" and 9.5" radius boards, where you have to deal with the string choking on higher fret bends, but I've never needed to do it on a 12" radius or higher fretboard, and with a proper levelling I've got ridiculously low actions. Most people that play my guitars don't like how low I get those strings IMNSHO levelling beams are superior to radius blocks in getting a good fret level, while taking the least amount of metal.

you can make a levelling beam from scratch...

Do you have a levelling beam or radius block? I don't see you doing that step in your pics?

With that Zebra pickup, I think that guitar would look cool with a 5 ply pickguard like this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/295617504808