Epiphone 1959 Les Paul Electric Guitar

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this classic instrument, Epiphone introduces the Limited Edition 1959 Les Paul Standard. With a history going back to the 1940s when Les Paul himself would visit the Epiphone factory in New York and work on what has come to be known as the first electric guitar, this Limited Edition also pays homage to the man that started it all. Premium Components and Authentic Features Epiphones Les Paul Standard has been a favorite guitar for years and years. Starting with the same successful recipe, Epiphone significantly steps it up on this Limited Edition 1959 reissue. True to its heritage, the neck features an authentic, 1950s rounded neck profile. Often referred to as the baseball bat, this neck feels beefy yet comfortable in your hands while adding warmth and sustain with its greater mass. Epiphone hand fits this solid Mahogany neck into the body with an historically accurate deep set long neck tenon that extends well into the neck pickup cavity creating even more tone and sustain. As is traditional with Les Paul Standards, the back of the body is solid Mahogany while the top is a carved Hard Maple cap. Making it affordable, a premium AAA grade flame Maple veneer is attached capturing the true beauty of the burst. Hearing is Believing Capturing everything these tone woods and premium construction have to give are a pair of Gibson U.S.A. BurstBucker TM pickups. BurstBucker pickups replicate the sound of Gibsons original Patent Applied For pickups the pickups that gave the 59 Les Paul Standard its legendary sound. Like the originals, with unpolished magnets and non potted coils, variations in pickup output and tone also came from inconsistencies in winding the bobbins, a result of the lack of automatic shutoffs on Gibsons winding machines in the late 1950s. Seth Lover, who invented the humbucker, always said they wound the bobbins until they were full. When two coils in a pickup have a different number of turns, that variation puts a little edge or bite on the classic humbucker sound. Thats the sound BurstBuckers replicate. The neck pickup is a Burstbucker 3 and is wound in the range of Gibsons 57 Classic. The bridge pickup is a Burstbucker 3 and is slightly over wound with a hotter output that works well in combination with the BB 2 in the neck. One listen and youll think you have a 1959 in your hands!
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