Les Paul's Les Paul

[Patriot54]

Google is not helpful when trying to find out about Les Paul's Les Paul.  :icon_scratch: I'm looking for info on this one that he played in his later years - maybe some closeup photos of just the guitar, what model is it, etc. There's 2 versions of it that I can find - one has an upper toggle switch and a different pickguard. Both have natural finish, gold bigsbys, block inlays...

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Les Paul Recording

http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/lprusers/lprusers.html#The%20Les%20Paul%20Recording

http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/lprusers/lprusers.html

With low impedance active pick ups no less.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Patriot54]

Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for.

It's such a cool looking guitar and I want to do a modernized version of it with a Warmoth LP.

 

[rapfohl09]

I am actually using a guitar calendar page that has the Les Paul Personal as a bookmark haha.

I will actually type this out for you guys....

"Ironically, Les Paul had very little personal input into the design of the classic 1950s Gibsons that bore his name. That changed in 1969 with the Les Paul Personal.
Paul's First stint with Gibson had ended in 1963, but when Gibson revived the Standard and Custom in 1968, Paul returned. This time Gibson gave him free rein to design a guitar that truly represented his personal preferences, and he came up with two models. Both had the body lines of the earlier models but were larger - a full inch wider. The Personal was just that, with one of the most personalized features ever to appear on a production guitar - a microphone jack on the bass-side rim allowing the player to attach a mic to the guitar, just as Paul did in his live performances. The second model, the Professional, had more universally appealing features, such as an phase/out-of-phase switch and an extra tone control.
Both models featured low-impedence pickups, which Paul preferred because they were better suited for a recording studio, and, two years after they were introduced, Gibson combined the electronics of the Professional with the ornamentation of the Personal to create the Les Paul Recording"

Phew...I hope at least one person reads that haha.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

I read it. Very cool.  :headbang1:

 

[Patriot54]

Good info - here's some more about the recording model.

"Until his death in August 2009, Les Paul himself played his personal Les Paul Guitar onstage, weekly, in New York City. Paul preferred his 1972 Gibson "Recording" model guitar, with different electronics and a one-piece mahogany body, and which, as an inveterate tinkerer and bona fide inventor, he had modified heavily to his liking over the years. A Bigsby-style vibrato was of late the most visible change although his guitars were formerly fitted with his "Les Paulverizer" effects. Per a statement made by Les Paul himself in the "Chasing Sound" bio-pic, the "Les Paulverizer" was a hoax with the actual effect being provided via multitrack recording."

Here's the 2012 Recording Model LP mockup I was working on  :laughing7:

 

[rapfohl09]

Good info - here's some more about the recording model.

"Until his death in August 2009, Les Paul himself played his personal Les Paul Guitar onstage, weekly, in New York City. Paul preferred his 1972 Gibson "Recording" model guitar, with different electronics and a one-piece mahogany body, and which, as an inveterate tinkerer and bona fide inventor, he had modified heavily to his liking over the years. A Bigsby-style vibrato was of late the most visible change although his guitars were formerly fitted with his "Les Paulverizer" effects. Per a statement made by Les Paul himself in the "Chasing Sound" bio-pic, the "Les Paulverizer" was a hoax with the actual effect being provided via multitrack recording."

Here's the 2012 Recording Model LP mockup I was working on  :laughing7:

That is a super cool looking guitar, though I don't dig the floyd. Or the chrome hardware at all really, but mock up chrome just looks gaudy anyway, I bet it would look better IRL.

I think smoked chrome would look really cool now that I think about it.

 

[KaiserSoze]

Love the discussion but unrelated question...how did you do that mockup??

 

[bagman67]

A fella named Frank Montag has a guitar builder website at  http://frankmontag.com/ .  You can do screenshots from the mockup-maker.

 

[KaiserSoze]

Great, there goes my afternoon....

 

[Patriot54]

I love that guitar builder - so many detailed options to use

After I build the mockup, I import it into Photoshop to do other custom features, like the Recording Model pickguards

Here's my "Tiger's Claw" LP I made in the Montag builder a few months ago

 

[mayfly]

Something is really bugging me about that photo.  Looks like someone took the headstock off and re-attached it in plane with the fingerboard.  Then the moved the nut to be at a 5 degree angle or something. 

Freaks me out.

 

[Patriot54]

 

[bagman67]

Something is really bugging me about that photo.  Looks like someone took the headstock off and re-attached it in plane with the fingerboard.  Then the moved the nut to be at a 5 degree angle or something. 

Freaks me out.

They might have Photochopped it to get the entire headstock in the frame.  The slant of the nut and the distortion between the nut and the first fret suggests that might be the case.  Laaame.

 

[fdesalvo]

:laughing8:

Great, there goes my afternoon....

 

[Rickgrxbass]

Something is really bugging me about that photo.  Looks like someone took the headstock off and re-attached it in plane with the fingerboard.  Then the moved the nut to be at a 5 degree angle or something. 

Freaks me out.

They might have Photochopped it to get the entire headstock in the frame.  The slant of the nut and the distortion between the nut and the first fret suggests that might be the case.  Laaame.

I suspect it's worse: maybe he was actually playing a strat in that picture  :evil4:

 

[Tipperman]

Something is really bugging me about that photo.  Looks like someone took the headstock off and re-attached it in plane with the fingerboard.  Then the moved the nut to be at a 5 degree angle or something. 

Freaks me out.

They might have Photochopped it to get the entire headstock in the frame.  The slant of the nut and the distortion between the nut and the first fret suggests that might be the case.  Laaame.

I suspect it's worse: maybe he was actually playing a strat in that picture  :evil4:

At least in that scenario he would be playing a proper guitar.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[swarfrat]

Maybe he decided to ditch the tilt back headstock and go for an inline.

 

[rapfohl09]

Something is really bugging me about that photo.  Looks like someone took the headstock off and re-attached it in plane with the fingerboard.  Then the moved the nut to be at a 5 degree angle or something. 

Freaks me out.

They might have Photochopped it to get the entire headstock in the frame.  The slant of the nut and the distortion between the nut and the first fret suggests that might be the case.  Laaame.

Maybe it was so that they could get the gibson logo in

Also, SO cool that they have an SG in that editor now!