Gibson® Les Paul Studio, Cherry - Sold

Ever since its introduction in 1952, the Les Paul has had an impact on both guitar players and on music itself. What started out as Gibson's answer to the introduction of solid body guitars in 1950, turned out to be perhaps the most influential of them all. Now, here's the Les Paul Studio. So your first question is, what's missing? Well, it boils down to the unbound body and the carved maple top isn't flamed (but this one has a fabulous wood grain). Could that be all? Sure looks that way. You have a carved maple top over a mahogany body, a '59 rounded neck profile with rosewood fingerboard and two screaming humbuckers. If you don't need a flame maple top, you'll never miss the binding.

Gibson Les Paul Studio at a glance:

Carved maple top in cherry see-through finish on a mahogany body
1959 rounded mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard
Two Alnico magnet humbuckers - 490R (neck) and 498T (bridge)

In 1958, the Les Paul went from a simple gold-finished, painted top to a cherry sunburst finish over a carved maple two-piece top. The majority of the tops were actually pretty plain, while others - the ones collectors now pay astronomically high prices for - could be found with beautifully figured, two-piece flamed maple tops. Actually, it was the carved top that set the Les Paul apart from the "competition." That continued through the instrument's long and storied history. The Les Paul Studio is equally at home in the studio as well as up on stage. Unless you just can't possibly live without the flamed maple top and single-ply cream body binding, you just might want to give the Les Paul Studio a serious look.

Look, when you're talking about a Les Paul, you're talking about that big, fat, smoky humbucker sound. So Gibson put two huge-sounding humbucking pickups on this baby with hot Alnico magnets - a 490R in the neck position and a 498T in the bridge position.

Features:

Top: Carved maple
Back: Mahogany
Neck: Mahogany with 1959 rounded profile
Fingerboard: Rosewood with pearloid trapezoid inlays
Number of frets: 22
Pickups: Two humbucking pickups with Alnico magnets
Controls: Two each tone and volume with three-way pickup selector switch
Machine heads: Green Keys
Hardware: Chrome plated
Case: Black reptile pattern hardshell

Sale Price: $1 320.00

Freight cost (contiguous USA): $35.00

Reference #: 2748

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