Summary: This lightweight alder bodied Les Paul was made in the Gibson Custom Shop division in 1983 and comes loaded with the original Tim Shaw designed humbuckers! This Guitar is a fabulous player with incredible tone- it is really hard to put this one down and was clearly someone’s gigging guitar apparent by the amount of wear around the edges and back. It has just been setup and restrung by our in house guitar tech with low action, straight neck and a new set of 10s. It ships in a vintage Gibson Custom black hardshell case with purple interior.
Look at this closeup of a 1950s Les Paul and you can see the binding nibs capping the ends of each fret. Here’s how to do that, using fret files. Gibson started shaping bindings at the fret ends nearly 100 years ago. After fretting the board, they slapped on the binding then scraped the heck out of it between the frets. The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, factory manager John Huis and their team with input from and endorsement by guitarist Les Paul.Its typical design features a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top and a single cutaway, a mahogany set-in neck with a. Repairing Cracked Binding Binding on the fingerboard and body can develop cracks, especially if the instrument has been thru extreme temperature or humidity changes. Loose binding is easy to snag and break. A fingerboard can shrink if humidity levels drop too low.
While the Les Paul Tribute carries the original trapeze tailpiece of the first Les Pauls, Gibson USA corrects the way this was used on guitars from 1952 to early ’53 by following Les’s original design, with an appropriate neck angle to allow the strings to be wrapped over the bridge, rather than under, for an improved playing feel.
Body: It has a solid alder body with carved and bound sunburst top with a slightly thin body making it even lighter!
Neck: Slim tapered mahogany neck with bound rosewood fingerboard, dot inlays, 1.675” nut width and 24.75” scale length.
Pickups/Hardware: 2 incredible sounding Tim Shaw humbuckers with 2 volumes, 2 tones, 3 way toggle, Nashville style tune-o-matic bridge, nickel hardware and Grover tuners.
Cosmetics: This guitar was definitely someone’s main gigging guitar for some time based on the wear- and it should be, this is a fantastic player! There is plenty of wear through the finish on the back exposing the alder body underneath, wear around the edges, plenty of pickwear on the top, lots of shallow dings and dents around the body and some hairline cracks in the binding around the fret ends. The playing surface of the neck is almost entirely blemish free and feels excellent! The ends of frets 4-7 have been worn down and rounded over which gives them a different look than the rest of the frets but it doesn’t impeded playability at all. The frets themselves are in excellent shape with tons of life left in them.
Playability: Our in house guitar tech has just inspected, setup and restrung this guitar with a new set of 10s. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functioning and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets have plenty of life left in them with no major grooves or divots from use (besides the rounded over ends of frets 4-7) and it plays beautifully up and down the fingerboard with no dead spots or choking out.
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Modifications: The tuners have been changed and the previous holes are visible on the back of the headstock.
Weight: 8 lbs, 4 oz.
Case: This Gibson comes with a vintage Gibson Custom hard-shell case with purple interior & we will ship it professionally packed and fully insured!
As low impedance models, the Les Paul Personal and Les Paul Professional guitars required a special low impedance guitar amplifier for normal operation - or, if using a normal guitar amp, an additional low impedance transformer was required, to prevent a loss of level.
This page also describes the function of the Personal's built-in microphone. A stereo instrument cable was required in order to split the guitar signal from the voice before amplification.
The detailed specifications of the Les Paul Personal are also listed, with recommended string heights (action) on the following page. Gibson suggested string set E-340 and stereo cable CRD-1469. The woods listed for this guitar are British Honduras mahogany for the body and neck, ebony for the fretboard and white holly as a headstock veneer.
Interestingly the suggested string set is not the same as for the Professional - set E-340 is medium gauge nickel 'sonomatic' .012-.056 with a wound 3rd.
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