Epiphone 1959
Les Paul Standard
The Epiphone Limited Edition 1959 Les Paul Standard Electric
Guitar features a solid mahogany body with a carved harp
maple cap topped with a AAA-grade flame maple veneer.
The
Epiphone Limited Edition 1959 Les Paul Standard follows
in the great tradition of Gibson's Les Paul
Standard model from 1959—perhaps the most highly
acclaimed, and widely recognized solid body electric
guitar in the
world.
The Epiphone 1959 Les Paul Standard has a set mahogany
neck with a deep set long-neck tenon that extends well
into the neck pickup cavity creating even more tone and
sustain. The authentic '50s rounded neck profile feels
beefy yet comfortable while adding warmth and sustain
with its greater mass.
This
guitar comes with a pair of Gibson U.S.A. BurstBucker
pickups that replicate the sound of Gibson's original "Patent
Applied For" pickups—the pickups that
gave the '59 Les Paul Standard its legendary sound.
Like the originals, with unpolished magnets and non-potted
coils, variations in pickup output and tone also came
from inconsistencies in winding the bobbins, a result
of the lack of automatic shutoffs on Gibson's winding
machines in the late 1950s.
The neck pickup is a Burstbucker 2 and is wound in the
range of Gibson's '57 Classic. The bridge pickup is a
Burstbucker 3 and is slightly over-wound with a hotter
output that works well in combination with the BB-2 in
the neck.
Other unique features include a Switchcraft toggle switch,
Mallory-150 tone capacitors, amber top hat knobs with
metal pointers, nickel hardware, a blank truss rod cover
and a stamped serial number on the back of the headstock.