Gibson Les Paul Traditional Goldtop

Description of the Gibson Les Paul Traditional

With all the fat, sweet, snarling Les Paul tone that purists love, the Les Paul Traditional plays, sounds, and weighs like the Les Pauls today's players grew up loving and lusting after. Taking design and visual clues from the Les Pauls of the '80s and '90s, the Traditional starts with an un-chambered mahogany body with traditional weight-relief holes for a beefy tone that maintains the resonance of modern Les Pauls. The Les Paul Traditional's body is capped with a beautiful, carved, AA-maple top and the hand fitted neck tenon sports the rounded, C-shape profile common on the Les Pauls of the '80s and '90s.

The Gibson LP Traditional is also Gibson's first model to utilize the revolutionary Plek system- a computer-controlled set-up that carefully measures and dresses each fret, accurately measuring the height between the fingerboard and each string, virtually eliminating string buzz and providing unbeatable playability. Two of Gibson's best loved humbuckers- a '57 Classis in the neck position, and a '57 Classic Plus in the bridge- give the new Les Paul Traditional the power, punch and clarity of Gibson's legendary PAF pickups.

Other traditional appointments include vintage-style Gibson speed knobs, classic Kluson-style tuners by TonePros, which offer period-correct looks with a higher tuning ratio, and a chrome Nashville Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar.
Each Les Paul Traditional also comes with Gibson USA's standard black snakeskin case.

Specifications of the Gibson Les Paul Traditional