Pattern vintage and Gibson 50’s are pretty comparable in my opinion.
I'm not sure what that means, I guess that's good, it works for me, I just needed to adjust to it from what I was accustomed to.
I found this from 2018, should be the same curerently:
Perfected after years of prototyping, the new
“Pattern” neck is an updated Wide Fat PRS neck style based on Paul’s pre-factory design. These necks were found on the instruments built for Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Howard Leese from the late 70’s to the mid 80’s.
The new
“Pattern Regular” neck shape is similar to the traditional PRS regular neck found on guitars made in the late 80’s at PRS’s former Virginia Avenue location. The
“Pattern Thin” neck is an updated version of PRS’s traditional Wide Thin neck.
The
Pattern Vintage neck has the same width measurements as PRS's Pattern neck but is slightly thicker front to back and features an asymmetrical carve with a little less meat on the bass side of the neck toward the nut end and a little less meat on the treble side of the neck from the twelfth fret to the heel.
The scale length on a McCarty is only 24.594”. So I am confused, but my does sound very Les Paul-like from what I've owned and I have a friend who has like 30+ Les Pauls, from a 1970s on to more recent ones. He has a great sounding LP Custom.
If I were in your situation looking, I would look PRS McCarty (the single cut or double cut), R8, and LP Custom. Those are the models I have played personlly that I've never encountered a bad one.
