As it celebrates 130 years of music history, Gibson has reimagined the classic Les Paul Studio guitar. The new model, which retails from between $1,799 and $1,999, features a modern weight-relieved mahogany body, making it lighter and more comfortable to play. The carved, plain maple cap adds brightness and definition to the overall tone and combines perfectly with the warmth and midrange punch from the mahogany body. The glued-in mahogany neck provides rock-solid coupling between the neck and body for increased resonance and sustain. The neck features a traditional heel and a fast-playing SlimTaper profile, and it is capped with a bound rosewood fretboard equipped with acrylic trapezoid inlays and 22 medium jumbo frets. There’s also a 12-inch fretboard radius that enables effortless playing regardless of hand size.
The vintage deluxe tuners with Keystone buttons match nicely with the fully adjustable aluminum Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge, lightweight aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece, and Graph Tech nut to keep the tuning stability reliably solid.
The Gibson Les Paul Studio comes in four colors: Ebony, Blueberry Burst, Wine Red, and Cherry Sunburst. Each is designed with a gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish and comes with a soft-shell guitar case.
On the electronics front, the Les Paul Studio features a pair of Gibson’s Burstbucker Pro pickups and a three-way pickup selector switch that allows players to use either pickup individually or run them together. Each of the two pickups is wired to its own volume control, allowing for a variety of pickup sound blends. Each volume control is equipped with a push/pull switch for coil tapping, offering two different sounds from each pickup, and each pickup has a tone control for even more playing options.
1,799 to 1,999
