Tag: Les Paul

The obscure walnut Les Paul is revived for its 40th anniversary.

The Les Paul officially became the SG in 1963, but guitars were still leaving Kalamazoo with the man’s name on their truss rod covers until the tail end of the year. Huw Price gets to grips with one of the last examples, along with that sideways Vibrola…

This collectors’ piece is priced at a cool 13 grand.

Your choice of BurstBucker Pros, mini-humbuckers or P-90s.

Having finally got our Goldtop project playing, we now have to strip it all down once again for lacquering.

Here’s what we know about the 17 new models.

The Green Day frontman gets his second signature Les Paul Junior.

The black-lacquered, jazz club sophistication of the earliest LP Custom takes more of its styling cues from Steinway than Stromberg. Huw Price steps out with a grand ’56 model…

This month we’ll be getting our Goldtop conversion fully playable, but first a lot of routing, gluing, filing, drilling and measuring needs to be done. Huw Price struggles with his zip forstner…

In 1953, Les Paul asked for a guitar that “looked like a tuxedo”, but by the late 60s the Custom had built its own legend. Huw Price checks out a strummer from ’69…