I was tweaking the tone on the Les Paul the other night, and I dialed in these tones that sounded to me so close to a 335 or a semi-hollow.
I don't know how to describe that little something you hear in semi-solid and hollow bodies, but it's a unique quality that I've never heard in a solid body guitar.
My Les Paul might be chambered. Is it possible that even in spite of the maple cap, the chamber is giving a semi-hollow tone?
I wouldn't have thought of it except that my Hofner bass is semi-hollow with no f-holes.