Gibson Les Paul Traditional

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With all the fat, sweet, snarling Les Paul tone that purists love, the Traditional plays, sounds, and feels like the Les Pauls that today's players grew up loving and lusting after. Taking design and visual cues from the Les Pauls of the '80s and '90s, the Les Paul Traditional starts with a Grade-A mahogany body and adds nine strategically placed traditional weight-relief holes for a beefy tone that maintains the resonance of modern Les Pauls, while losing a large portion of the weight. This is capped with a maple top, giving the Les Paul Traditional the look of the great Les Pauls that helped to bring rock back to the front of the stage in the mid '80s. Capping the Traditional with a maple top not only looks great, but it also brings out presence and definition to the tone. With the look of the great Les Paul Standards that helped to make rock king again, and every ounce of the tone thanks to legendary Gibson construction, classic tonewoods, and two genuine humbucking pickups, the Les Paul Traditional is the guitar to take your music center stage where it belongs.

Body
Top Maple
Back Mahogany
Body Type Traditional Weight Relief
Adhesive Franklin Titebond 50

Neck
Species Mahogany
Profile 50's Style
Binding Single-ply Cream Binding
Truss Rod Traditional Adjustable
Joint Angle 5° (+/- 15 seconds)
Adhesive Franklin Titebond 50

Neck Fit
Joint Mortise & Tenon
Adhesive Franklin Titebond 50
Joint Angle Tolerance +/- .005"

Fingerboard
Species Rosewood
Frets 22
Radius 12"
Nut/E.O.B 1.695"/2.260"
Inlays Figured Acrylic Trapezoids

Nut
Material Corian
Width 1.695
Slots Gibson PLEK System

Headstock
Logo Mother of Pearl "Gibson" Logo with scripted "Les Paul Model"
Truss Rod Cover Black and White Antique Bell with "Traditional" engraving

Tuners
Model Kluson-style Tone Pros with Green Tulip Buttons
Plating Chrome
Tuning Ratio 16:1

Bridge
Type Nashville Tune-O-Matic
Material Zamak
Plating Chrome

Tailpiece
Type Stop Bar
Material Zamak
Plating Chrome

Hardware
Knobs Gold Speed Knobs
Pickguard Cream
Toggle Switch Washer Cream with Gold Imprint
Control Plate Cover Black plastic
Strings .010 - .046, Genuine Gibson strings
Strap Buttons Aluminum

Pickups
Neck Position '57 Classic
Bridge Position '57 Classic Plus

Electronics
Potentiometers 2 Volume Controls, 2 Tone Controls
Type 300k Linear Volume, 500k Non-linear Tone
Coil Wiring Machine Wound
Toggle Switch Three-way Switchcraft with Creme Plastic Tip
Output Jack Traditional 1/4"

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[NstuffMusic]

It comes in either a one or two piece solid mahogany back

[lafleur887]

This guy is a genious...you could give him a chinese stratocaster and I'm sure that he will get a great sound out of it

[NstuffMusic]

@lafleur887 You got that right....He sits in the store and jams for a little while and it is amazing the sounds he gets out of less expensive gear. You would think he was playing through a $3000.00 amp and a Suhr guitar!

[21aap]

can you remove the pickguard? and does it still sounds good if I replace the Pick-ups with seymour ducan's?

[NstuffMusic]

@21aap Yes you could remove the pickguard. Seymour duncans would change the sound so you would be able to pick what pickup would be best for your playing style.

[DFMerlino]

2 questions:

1. I dont know the diference between carved top and figured top.

2. I like to play some crunch rock kinda ac/dc aerosmith/ kinda tone so would you recoomend a standard or traditional?

[NstuffMusic]

@DFMerlino The Standard and the Traditional LP are both carved top which means the carve the wood from the center to the edges of the body. The Figured top means the use either a Flame maple or a Quilted maple top which has a nicer grain in the wood. I would go with the Traditional LP.

[murfdog19]

@NstuffMusic The Traditional is weight relieved, not solid.

[zifirblues]

Nice demo.Could you please mention the neck profile. You can determine by comparing it with rounded 59' profile comes on studios and early 50's profile on historic series like R7.

Thanks

[winwin997]

Dear Mark

Would this guitar be similar to an older Les Paul Standard?....Say a 1989 Standard with 57" pups?

[nobleblood100]

it's good, but somehow when i heard the Gibson Les Paul Studio '60s Tribute demo, my heart is melted... its got a twangky strat like, but with dark and warm les paul sound... it was amazing...

[jobryan26]

Are these two piece backs?

[bloc22]

@MarijuanaGood4U .........NO.

[bloc22]

Next paycheck can't come faster!!!!!!!!!

[acledfloyd]

For those who wonder, this guitar is not chambered but it does still have weight relief holes.