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REVIEWS

KEY FEATURES
LES PAUL TRIBUTE
PRICE £999 (inc. gigbag)
DESCRIPTION Single cutaway electric guitar. Made in USA
BUILD Mahogany back with ‘ultra modern’ weight relief,
maple top, set maple neck with 12"/304.8mm radius rosewood
ingerboard with acrylic trapezoid inlays, 22 medium-jumbo frets,
Graph Tech nut
HARDWARE Aluminium Nashville Tune-o-matic bridge,
aluminium stop tailpiece, vintage-style machineheads
ELECTRICS 490R (neck) and 490T (bridge) humbuckers,
2x volume, 2x tone, 3-way toggle selector switch
SCALE LENGTH 24.75"/628.6mm
NECK WIDTH 42.8mm at nut, 52.4mm at 12th fret
NECK DEPTH 21.7mm at irst fret, 25.1mm at 12th fret
STRING SPACING 35.6mm at nut, 50.8mm at bridge
WEIGHT 3.49kg/7.7lb
FINISH Satin Tobacco Burst nitrocellulose (as reviewed),
Satin Iced Tea, Satin Honeyburst, Satin Cherry Sunburst
CONTACT Gibson gibson.com

A real-world gigging guitar that’s stripped down
9/10 but wears its heritage on its sleeve

mahogany neck Lester, there’s plenty of sustain. Many
will prefer its breezier sound, especially in an era
where cleaner and more textural tones predominate.
The 490R and 490T aren’t the pickups most
loved by Les Paul aficionados, but the alnico II units

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