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Les Paul Goldtop
Les Paul Goldtop Guitar
Les Paul Goldtop Guitar
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 Gibson
Les Paul Series
U.S.A.
Available 1952 to 1957
Standard Colors: Goldtop, All Gold.
Pick Ups: 2 P-90.
Body: Maple Top, Mahogany Back.
Neck: Mahogany.
Fingerboard: Rosewood.
Number of Frets: 22.
Scale Length: 24 ¾ inches.
Options: Trapeze Bridge/Tailpiece
Bound Neck
Trapezoid Inlays
"Les Paul Model" on Headstock
Bound Body
Top Hat Knobs
Nickel Hardware
Cream Pickguard
2 Volume Controls
2 Tone Controls
3-way Pickup Selector Switch

1953 Changes:
Stopbar "Wrap-around" Bridge

1955 Changes:
ABR-1 Bridge
Separate Stopbar Tailpiece

1957 Changes:
2 "Patent Applied For" Humbucking Pickups Replace Single Coil P-90s
Les Paul Goldtop Guitar

The first guitar from the collaboration of Jazz Guitarist Les Paul and Gibson. This first model saw many revisions through it's short life. The bridge was redesigned and replaced in 1953, and then again in 1955. Seth Lover's "humbucking" pickup replaced the original single coil P-90's in 1957.
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