Gibson Les Paul Custom
| Les Paul Custom |
|
| Manufacturer |
Gibson |
| Period |
1954-1960; 1968-Present |
| Construction |
| Body type |
Solid |
| Neck joint |
Set |
| Scale |
24.75" |
| Woods |
| Body |
Mahogany or Mahogany/Maple |
| Neck |
Mahogany |
| Fretboard |
Ebony |
| Hardware |
| Bridge |
Fixed, Tune O Matic, Tremolo |
| Pickup(s) |
2 or 3 Humbuckers, Originally 2 P-90s |
| Colors available |
| Ebony, Silver Burst, Wine Red, Alpine White, "the Natural" (maple top w/maple fingerboard) |
The Gibson Les Paul Custom is a higher end variation of the Gibson Les Paul guitar. It was developed in 1954 after Gibson had introduced the Les Paul model in 1952.
Notable Les Paul Custom players
- Steve Marriott, rock artist, guitarist and vocalist of The Small Faces and Humble Pie.
- Robert Fripp, solo artist and guitarist of King Crimson [1]
- Mick Ronson, solo artist and guitarist of David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars.[2]
- Zakk Wylde, former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and founder of Black Label Society
- Slash, solo artist and guitarist of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver
- Buzz Osborne, Guitarist and lead singer for Melvins
- Randy Rhoads, Guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot.
- Mick Jones, Guitarist for The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite
- Steve Jones Guitarist for The Sex Pistols
- Jimmy Page Guitarist for Led Zeppelin
- Ace Frehley, Former guitarist and vocalist for KISS and solo artist
- Keith Richards, Guitarist for The Rolling Stones
- Paul Banks, Guitarist and lead singer for Interpol
- John Fogerty, Guitarist and vocalist for Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Peter Frampton, solo artist
- Matt Heafy,Guitarist and Vocalist for Trivium
- James Dean Bradfield,Guitarist and Vocalist for Manic Street Preachers
- Paul Crook, Guitarist and Vocalist for Meat Loaf, Sebastian Bach & Anthrax
- Adam Jones, Guitarist for Tool.
- Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica.
- Bjorn Gelotte, Guitarist for In Flames.
- Alex Turner guitarist and vocalist of Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets.
Other Models
Gibson's subsidiary, Epiphone, also makes the Les Paul Custom guitar.
As of 2009, it comes in various finishes and variations. It comes in Ebony (with gold hardware, chrome hardware and chrome-plated pickguard on a limited edition, and with aged white binding, gold hardware, and uncovered pickups another limited edition), Alpine White (with gold hardware), Silverburst (with chrome hardware), Prophecy EX (with EMG pickups, transparent black finish with a quilted maple top, and black hardware), Prophecy GX (Gibson Dirty Finger pickups, transparent red finish with a quilted maple top, and gold hardware), and the Zakk Wylde signature (antique ivory with bulls eye graphic and gold hardware, Camo finish with a bulls eye graphic, maple fingerboard and gold hardware, and orange with a buzzsaw graphic and chrome hardware, EMG pickups).
References
- ^ Guitar world presents one hundred greatest guitarists of all time from the pages of Guitar world magazine
- ^ [1]
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