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Gibson Les Paul Studio Wine Red
From Studio Artist to Straight-on Rocker, This Les Paul’s a Winner!
Crucial elements of the Les
Paul Studio’s design include the carved maple top and mahogany body,
glued-in mahogany neck with back-angled headstock, rosewood fingerboard
(ebony fingerboard with the Alpine White finish), Tune-o-matic bridge
and stopbar tailpiece – all design points that have been making Les
Pauls the most desirable tone monsters available since the late 1950s.
For electronics, a set of Gibson’s 498T and 490R Alnico humbucking
pickups squeeze every drop of tone from the instrument.
With these classic ingredients, the Les Paul Studio gives you all the
sonic versatility you could ask for, from sultry, warm bluesy tones to
powerful crunch to sizzling lead tones. Finally, the Les Paul Studio is
supremely playable too, thanks to its rounded ’50s neck profile and a
chambered mahogany body that reduces the weight while enhancing
resonance, making it outstandingly comfortable strapped on or seated.
All this, and your Les Paul Studio comes protected in a formfitting
Gibson hardshell case, and covered by Gibson’s famous Limited Lifetime
Warranty and 24/7/365 customer service. It could just be the bargain of
the decade… or the past three.
Body and Finish
A solid, carved maple top and chambered
mahogany body give the Les Paul Studio the same tonewood combination
that has been helping Les Paul Standards rock for nearly 60 years. And
each of its four available nitrocellulose finishes makes for a stunning
looking guitar, even while its no-frills approach eliminates body
binding and pickguard.
Neck, Headstock and Fingerboard
The Les Paul Studio is crafted in classic
Gibson style with a glued-in neck made from solid quarter-sawn mahogany
and topped with an unbound rosewood fingerboard (an ebony fingerboard
with the Alpine White finish). It has an angled headstock for superior
resonance, and its rounded ’50s profile and 1-11/16” wide Corian nut
help to make is supremely playable.
Pickups and Electronics
The Les Paul Studio carries two of Gibson’s
most popular humbucking pickups, a 498T in the bridge position and a
490R in the neck. Both are designed as updated renditions of Gibson’s
famous PAF humbucker of the late ’50s and early ’60s, modified for
improved versatility, and routed through the classic Gibson four-knob
and three-way switch control section.
Hardware
The hardware set on the Les Paul Studio
echoes that worn by Les Paul Standards since 1956, and includes Gibson’s
hallowed Tune-o-matic bridge, stopbar tailpiece, and vintage-style
tuners. A classic of 20th century guitar design, the Tune-o-matic
provides excellent resonant coupling, while offering efficient
independent adjustment of each saddle for precise intonation.
Item Number: LPSTWRCH1
Manufacturer: Gibson
Manufacturer Part No: LPSTWRCH1