The most notable aspect of said models, Haynes said, were their P-90 pickups. “I have always played humbuckers for the most part, but whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some ...

Indeed, the Les Paul Signature Bass template – which is an amalgamation of the EB-2 and LP shapes – is one of the firm’s most revered models, and the fact it’s now available as a fretless ...

Epiphone strips the iconic Les Paul and SG down to the essentials, while the J-45 Express sees it reimagine the Gibson workhorse as a 7/8-sized travel friendly acoustic ...

ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this Dec. 20, 1963 file photo, Les Paul repairs one of the many control boards in the control room at his Oakland, N.J., home. Paul, 94, the guitarist and inventor who changed ...

When I came down here, I explained. ... The name should have rung a bell from his most famous invention — the Les Paul model Gibson guitar, which was unveiled in 1952 and hasn’t changed since.

The ledgers could subdue circulation of counterfeit guitars, as well. Despite crafting less than 650 Les Paul models in 1959, Gueikian said that owners of roughly 850 guitars from ‘59 claim ...

The Les Paul-designed guitar known as 'Black Beauty' that served as the prototype for Gibson's Les Paul models is to be auctioned. Jan. 7, 2015, 1:36 PM EST / Source : The Associated Press ...

The "Black Beauty" was built in 1953 at the Gibson Guitar factory in Kalamazoo for Les Paul, a guitarist and song writer who experimented with electronic amplification.

The additions revealed by the Gibson Gazette are significant; the 1959 Les Paul Standard, Les Paul Custom, 1963 Les Paul SG Custom, 1959 ES-355, 1942 Banner J-45, 1957 SJ-200, and J-180 LS. Epiphone ...