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.