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An Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar. Body: The solid body of an electric and the hollow sound box of an acoustic; Bridge; Fingerboard (fretboard) Frets; Wiring and electronics (including volume and tone controls) Headstock (peghead, head) Inlay; Machine heads (tuners) Neck; Neck joint: see Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck and Neck-thru; Nut; Pickguard
An Epiphone-branded Les Paul Ultra II. The Gibson also sells Les Paul guitars under their Epiphone brand of low-cost instruments; most are similar copies of Gibson-branded models. Made outside the United States, the Epiphone Les Pauls are made from more commonly available woods using less expensive foreign labor and have less hand detailing ...
Les Paul Bantam/Florentine (1995/1996–c. 2003) Custom Shop models with thinline semi-hollow-body with center-block. (Note: " Gibson USA Florentine " released in 2009 is a solid-body model [ 15 ] ) ES-Les Paul (2014-2016) Mash up of Les Paul and ES-335 [ 16 ]
A diagram showing the wiring of a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. Shown are the humbucker pickups with individual tone and volume controls (T and V, respectively), 3-way pickup selector switch, tone capacitors that form a passive low-pass filter, the output jack and connections between those components. The top right shows a modification that ...
A functioning solid-body electric guitar was designed and built in 1940 by Les Paul from an Epiphone acoustic archtop as an experiment. His " log guitar " — a wood post with a neck attached and two hollow-body halves attached to the sides for appearance only — shares nothing in common for design or hardware with the solid-body Gibson Les ...
It is made from a solid maple center block and maple laminate top, back and sides. It is smaller than the ES-335, closer to the size of a Les Paul model. In terms of electronics, the ES-339 differs from the ES-335 with the use of what Gibson calls the Memphis Tone Circuit.
The Gibson L6-S is a solid body electric guitar. It was the descendant of the L5S jazz solid-body electric guitar.It was the same shape, very much like a wide Gibson Les Paul, but with a 24-fret neck, the first Gibson guitar to have this.
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings. It adds vibrato to the sound by changing the tension of the strings, typically at the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar using a controlling lever, which is alternately referred to as a whammy bar, vibrato bar, or tremolo arm. [1]