![]() ![]() "THE FRETLESS WONDER"- THE INCOMPARABLE LES PAUL CUSTOM GUITAR ![]() The Les Paul Custom guitar was described in the 1955 Gibson catalogue as follows: The large block neck marker inlays start at the first fret. The Gibson Les Paul Custom headstock inlays used the same 'split-diamond' design as the Super 400. Although the pickup covers themselves were simple black plastic, the polepieces were plated with gold. The Gibson Les Paul was always a fine guitar, but the Custom especially so, with it's gold plated hardware, bound body, neck and headstock, and mother-of-pearl inlays. The advert shows the original gold-topped Les Paul Model, but also the newer black-finished Les Paul Custom. ![]() The advert (right) from 1956 shows Les Paul at work recording guitar with his wife Mary Ford looking on. These black soapbar style Les Paul pickups were quite distinctive. This was an ebony finished (as the name would suggest) guitar with contrasting gold hardware, a black single-coil P-90 (the same pickup as the Les Paul Standard) in the neck position, and a distinctive pickup in the bridge position, referred to as the Alnico V - named after the magnet within. The Gibson Les Paul Custom was launched in 1954 as the Fretless Wonder or Black Beauty, as a companion model to the Les Paul Model of 1952. Gibson Les Paul Custom - Les Paul Says: It's GibsonĪ most important part of our recording equipment. ![]()
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