Epiphone's Les Paul Junior…

With one P-90 pickup with a hot 8.16k output, this featherweight guitar weighs in at just 5.70 lbs., even though it has a solid mahogany body. The one-piece mahogany neck has a rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and pearl dot inlays. Batwing style headstock with six-on-a-side closed-back Kluson Deluxe strip tuners with white plastic oval buttons and serial number "155936" stamped on the back. The scale length is a standard Gibson 24 1/2 inches and the nut width is 1 9/16 inches. Replacement three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard with silver and black embossed "E." Two controls (one volume, one tone) with black plastic ribbed-side knobs with metal tops. The potentiometers are stamped "134 6202" (Centralab January 1962). Pre-set ridged stop tailpiece. With the exception of the reproduction pickguard and some very minor finish checking, this is a superb near mint, unfaded, and otherwise totally original example. Housed in a later rectangular black hardshell case with black plush lining (9.50).

This version of the Coronet was made between 1963 and 1966 and, with a price tag in July 1963 of $154.00, it was just 50 cents cheaper than its cousin, the Les Paul Junior. Not only is this great guitar similar to the early 60s Les Paul Junior in looks, but with its single P-90 pickup, which rests right up against the combined bridge/tailpiece, it actually sounds like one too...