A Very Unusual and Beautiful Les Paul

This Les Paul "Standard" model weighs 9.40 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with carved maple top, one-piece mahogany neck with a medium profile, and bound rosewood fretboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and "Les Paul Model" silk-screened in gold. Two-layer black-on-white plastic truss-rod cover engraved in white "Standard". Serial number "83479531" impressed into the back of the headstock, with "Made in U.S.A." below it. Individual Schaller-style "Gibson" tuners with bell-shaped metal buttons. The top of the guitar and the neck has a beige single-ply binding. One "Vintage" Gibson HB-R "The Original Circuit-Board" Humbucker with an output of 7.06k in the neck position, and one "Vintage" Gibson HB-L "The Original Circuit-Board" Humbucker with a huge output of 13.39k in the bridge position. Single-ply beige plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic barrel-shaped "Speed" knobs. The potentiometers are all stamped "R137 8946" (CTS November 1989). Nashville-style Tune-O-Matic bridge with separate stud tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with only a few insignificant marks or indentations on the back and a tiny bit of tarnishing to the gold-plated hardware, most noticeable on the stud-tailpiece. This is a very unusual and beautiful Les Paul. Housed in the original Gibson black five-latch hardshell case with gray plush lining (9.50).

The Gibson HB-R (in the neck position) and the HB-L (in the bridge position) "The Original Circuit-Board" Humbuckers were the result of an exceptional collaboration between Bill Lawrence and Gibson when he re-joined the Gibson team in the late eighties. The HB-R is thought by many to combine the low-end aggressiveness of a Bill Lawrence 500-L with the precision of a Gibson Classic '57 Humbucker.