I think the Recording would have been a better tribute model, myself.OzziePete said:Les Paul was a tinkerer of the worse degree (in a good way :icon_thumright. I bet Gibson could build him a guitar exactly to whatever specs he'd demand and then 6 weeks after delivery he'd have it apart modifying it!
But the LP Recording and Personal guitars were the ones he used the most during the latter stages of his long career. So he obviously favoured whatever benefits the low impedance pickups gave him.