Tuesday, December 20, 2005

I am the proud owner of a Les Paul Signature model guitar.


These days there is a Les Paul Signature model xxxxxx for just about every guitar player there ever is who doesn't play Fender!!!
It is very difficult to google and find a Les Paul Les Paul Signature model.

What can also be very hard to comprehend is that the Signature model Les Paul is a double cutataway thin bodied hollow bodied guitar with F holes, probably built on a 335 chassis!.
The guitar has a three position tone switch which thickens/thins the sound, a phase switch, and a single volume and single tone control.
The LP Signature was built approximately around 1974.

My guitar is modified with a pan pot in place of the pick-up toggle, and a Maton knob with a lever so I can see the position of the mix quite easily.
I have also fitted a Bowen handle, which is a whammy bar for Les Paul style guitars, and a Roland GK3 midi guitar pickup.

The Signature model has two output jacks, one for high impedance usage, and the other a low-Z output. The pickups are in fact low-Z pickups.

The Signature model is a very versatile guitar tonewise.
It is a beautiful, sweet sounding guitar, a very under-rated axe.
It works well for country music, but shines very brightly as a mellow blues lady.
B.B. has Lucille, Albert had Lucy, I have Gibby!
If you own or wish to know more about this or other Les Paul low-Z guitars, check this web address: http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/lprusers/lprusers.html

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