A guitar that's alway ready for its close-up.
A true classic, the Les Paul Special electric guitar sprang from the Les Paul Junior design in 1955, taking the simply mahogany slab body design, and adding a neck pickup and expanded controls, as well as the extra aesthetic touch of neck binding. The unique TV Yellow finish was created to look white under the unforgiving lights of early television, as a true white finish would overload the primitive camera lenses. The unique greenish-yellow hue has made fans of its own over the years, and graces this great-sounding guitar that's simply fun to play. The P-90 single-coil pickups are a truly archetypal tone for all varieties of American roots music, and match perfectly with the look and feel of the guitar.
Specifications
Body
- Body shape: Single cutaway
- Body type: Solid body
- Body material: Solid wood
- Body wood: Mahogany
- Body finish: Gloss nitrocellulose
- Orientation: Right-handed
- Neck shape: '50s Vintage
- Neck wood: Mahogany
- Joint: Set-in
- Scale length: 24.75"
- Truss rod: Standard
- Neck finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose
- Material: Rosewood
- Radius: 12"
- Fret size: Medium-jumbo
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut width/material 1.69" (43 mm) Graph Tech
- Configuration: SS
- Neck: P-90
- Bridge: P-90
- Brand: Gibson
- Active or passive pickups: Passive
- Series or parallel: Parallel
- Control layout: Volume 1, volume 2, tone 1, tone 2
- Pickup switch: 3-way
- Bridge type: Fixed
- Bridge design: Vintage-style compensated wraparound
- Tailpiece: Not applicable
- Tuning machines: Vintage Deluxe white-key
- Color: Nickel
- Number of strings: 6-string
- Case: Hardshell case
- Country of origin: United States
Features
- Nitro-finished solid mahogany body
- 24.75"-scale mahogany neck with 22-fret rosewood fingerboard
- Dual Gibson P-90 single-coil pickups, handwired controls
- Vintage-style compensated wraparound bridge/tailpiece, Deluxe "white-key" tuners