Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s Electric Guitar ( + FREE Gator GBE-ELECT Gig Bag )

The Les Paul Standard 60s models from Epiphone’s new Inspired by Gibson Collection recreate the sound of 1960s era Les Pauls. Featuring a classic Mahogany body with a Maple cap, Grover® tuners, and powered by ProBucker™ humbuckers with CTS electronics. Epiphone’s long friendship with Mr. Les Paul began in 1940 when Les built one of the world’s first solid body electric guitars while working nights at the original Epiphone factory in Manhattan. Les’ first solidbody guitar, nicknamed “the Log”, would go on to inspire the Les Paul Standard, what many consider the greatest electric guitar ever made.

A universe of tone with ProBucker pickups

The ProBuckers on the Les Paul Standard ’60s feature Alnico II magnets — the same as sought-after vintage PAF humbuckers — for rich, warm tone with crystalline highs and a tight bottom. With a ProBucker-2 in the neck position and a (slightly overwound) ProBucker-3 in the bridge position, crank your gain, and you can do some serious damage. We’re talking legendary Les Paul — fat, snarling tone served up with exceptional sustain.

The Les Paul backstory

The Les Paul story started with an instrument called “The Log.” In the early 1940s, on a quest for an electric guitar that would sustain for days, Les Paul — the legendary guitarist and inventor — fashioned what may well have been the first solidbody guitar from a length of common 4" x 4" lumber. For appearances (and possibly playing comfort), Les sawed an Epiphone hollowbody in half and attached the two “wings” to either side of The Log. Les continued to develop the idea through a series of prototypes, ultimately resulting in the classic solidbody guitar we know and love.

Specifications:

• Body Shape: Les Paul
• Body Material: AA Flame Maple Top, Mahogany Body
• Fretboard Material: Indian Laurel
• Fretboard Radius: 12"
• No. of Frets: 22
• Fretboard Inlays: Pearloid Trapezoid
• Scale Length: 24.75" / 628.65mm
• Pickup(s): ProBucker-2™ & 3
• Bridge: LockTone™ ABR Tune-o-matic
• Pickguard: Cream
• Strings: .10, .13, .17, .26, .36, .46
• Tuning Machines: Grover® Rotomatic 18:1
• Hardware Finish: Nickel