One of the First Run "Jimmy Page" Signature Les Pauls.

1997 Gibson Les Paul Jimmy Page Signature.

This 'first-run' Les Paul Jimmy Page Signature guitar weighs just 8.90 lbs. and has a nice fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Just like Jimmy Page's original '59 guitar, the neck is thick at the nut and at the neck heel, like a typical 1959 Les Paul, but it tapers to a super-slim depth in the middle. Solid mahogany body with a nice 'tiger-stripe' two-piece carved maple top with single-ply cream binding. One-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Inlaid pearl "Gibson" headstock logo and "Les Paul Model" silkscreened in gold. Two-layer black on white plastic truss rod cover with "Standard" engraved in white. Serial number "90637407" impressed into the back of the headstock. Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with tulip shaped metal buttons. One Gibson 496R Ceramic Magnet Humbucker (double-black) in the neck position with a really hot output of 8.34k and one Gibson 500T Ceramic Magnet Humbucker (double-black) in the bridge position with an output of 7.54k. Inside the pickup cavities are the luthiers pencil markings "LPPG"(Les Paul/Page). Cream-colored plastic pickguard with Jimmy Page signature etched in gold. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch. Unique to this model is the feature that each of the four controls has its own individual push-pull switch for phasing, coil-tapping, and series/parallel wiring, which gives the player a wonderfully expansive range of tonal possibilities. Gold-plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated. Apart from some very slight rubbing to the gold signature on the pickguard this is a mint example complete with it's original truss-rod adjustment tool, case key, strap button fasteners and Gibson Custom Customer Care Guide booklet. Housed in the original Gibson custom black hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.50).

This guitar "replicates the unique neck shape and custom electronics of Page's favorite guitar. "Les Paul #1," as the Rock Hall of Famer calls his personal guitar, is a 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul that he bought from Joe Walsh in the early 1970's. The neck of Page's guitar is thick at the nut and at the neck heel, like a typical 1959 Les Paul, but it tapers to a super-slim depth in the middle. It was that way when Page acquired it, and he hasn't changed it. He did make two other modifications: He put a push/pull pot in the rear volume control that reverses the phase, in order to get a tone like Peter Green or B.B. King. And he replaced the tuners with sealed, gold plated Grovers to achieve the exact tuning and sensitivity of the Les Paul Custom he had been playing with Led Zeppelin".
(New Gibson replicates Jimmy Page's "Les Paul #1"
http://www.gibson.com/Whatsnew/pressrelease/2004/feb9a.html)