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In mid-1957, Gibson began to equip the Les Paul Custom with the new PAF (Patent Applied For) pickup designed by Seth Lover. [5] Most Customs have three PAFs, though there are a small number that have the traditional two-pickup configuration. By 1958, Gibson had replaced the Kluson tuners with Grover Rotomatics.
Later Les Paul models included flame maple (tiger stripe) and "quilted" maple tops, again in contrast to the competing Fender line's range of car-like custom color finishes. The 1952 Les Paul featured a mahogany body with a one-inch-thick maple cap, a mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, two P-90 single coil pickups, and a one-piece ...
One of the first Les Paul Doublecut is the Les Paul Junior Doublecut released in 1958. Like the singlecut version of the LP Junior, it has a single "dog-eared" P-90 single coil pickup. This Les Paul doublecut is currently only available as a Gibson Custom Shop/Historic Reissue model, called the "1958 Junior Doublecut."
1956–1958: Les Paul Junior 3/4 (Single Cutaway) 1954–1958: Les Paul TV (Single Cutaway) reissues. 1986–1992: Les Paul Junior (Single Cutaway Reissue) 2001–2002: Les Paul Junior (LPJ-) 2019–Pres: Les Paul Junior (Original Collection) variations. 2008–2012: Les Paul Junior Faded (LPJ) 2011–2012: Les Paul Junior 2011 (Model LPJ)
Gibson began switching from P-90s to PAFs first on the company's lap steel guitars in 1956, and then on electric guitars debuted at the NAMM Convention in 1957. [1] [6] Les Paul Goldtops and Customs were the first solid-body electric guitars to receive PAF humbuckers, and Gibson's ES Series were the first hollow/semi-hollow designs to receive ...
Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers Band) used a 1957 Les Paul Goldtop with PAF pickups, a 1959 cherry sunburst Les Paul, a 1958 tobacco sunburst Les Paul and a 1968 cherry SG which he used for slide guitar. [3] Billie Joe Armstrong uses several vintage 1950s single and double cutaway Les Paul Junior models. Gibson has also produced two Billie ...