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You are bidding on a 2009 Gibson U.S.A Les Paul Traditional/Standard in Ebony with one piece Pleked Mahogany Neck and comes with a Gibson case. I bought this guitar new, as an impulse buy in April of 2009 at Guitar Center.The guitar is very nice looking and sounds like a Les Paul should. The guitar has had very little use; it pretty much just sits in its case, no gigs, and no road abuse.The reason for letting this one go is it’s just not practical for me to hold on to it. I am not using it and I could use the money. This guitar will be sold as is and there are no refunds. The guitar will be shipped in the original Gibson shipping box, Buyer is responsible for all shipping charges. I will not ship the guitar until payment has been receive and posted, once received I will ship out the following day. Pay-Pal is the preferred method of payment, but I will accept check's or Pay-Pal E-Checks. Just to be clear, I will not ship until the check has cleared the bank. This guitar will make an excellent additional to your collection or a nice present for someone. Gibson Les Paul Traditional's are going for $2189.00; you can pick up this one for much less!! Good luck and happy bidding!!!!!! INFO FROM GIBSON'S SITE: You asked for it—you got it. Introducing the Les Paul Traditional from Gibson USA. With all the fat, sweet, snarling Les Paul tone that purists love, the Traditional plays, sounds, and weighs like the Les Paul's today’s players grew up loving and lusting after. Taking design and visual cues from the Les Paul's of the ’80s and '90s, the Les Paul Traditional starts with an UN-chambered mahogany body with traditional weight-relief holes for a beefy tone that maintains the resonance of modern Les Paul's. Each Les Paul Traditional also comes with Gibson USA’s standard black snakeskin case. TonePros Kluson Vintage-Style Tuners The Les Paul Traditional is outfitted with Kluson-style tuners from TonePros, which are made to look identical to the vintage tuners found on earlier Les Paul's. These new tuners offer world-class performance while retaining the classic look and feel of one of the most popular—and most copied—tuners of all time. These TonePros machine heads feature completely sealed components with an improved 16:1 tuning ratio. Vintage Gibson Speed Knobs The Les Pauls of the 1980s and 1990s were used to play heavy duty rock and roll, and its features were designed to make playing the music as simple as possible. Gibson's classic speed knobs made it comfortable and quick for players to turn up the volume and adjust the Les Paul's tone as needed in a flash. Maple Top Ever since the introduction of the Les Paul—and especially the models from Gibson "Golden Era" of the late 1950s and early 1960s—one of its most distinguishing features has been the unique, highly distinct patterns of the flame maple top. The "Plus" maple caps on the Les Paul Traditionals emulate the tops of the Les Pauls from yesteryear (Ebony and Goldtop models are fitted with "Plain" maple tops). Period-Correct Pickguard The creme-colored pickguard has been a Les Paul staple dating back to the models of the late 1950s and the early 1960s. Many players, however, removed the pickguard from their Les Pauls to show off the beauty of the flame maple tops, moving Gibson to stop installing the pickguard altogether. During the 1980s and 1990s, Gibson began reinstalling the pickguard in the factory, and the Les Pauls from this era once again arrived in stores bearing the classic, creme-colored pickguard. The Les Paul Traditional comes equipped with a period-correct pickguard, designed to protect the maple top. Weight-relieved Mahogany Body Satisfying the call in the early 1980s to make a lighter Les Paul, Gibson engineers came up with the idea of placing strategically routed holes in the Les Paul's body to lessen the weight of the guitar. After trying several patterns, the final configuration of holes resulted in a Les Paul with enhanced acoustic qualities and improved resonance. This same period-correct pattern is used in the Les Paul Traditional. The body itself is made from premium mahogany, and it goes through the same rigorous processes as all the wood used by Gibson USA. Pickups: Neck - '57 Classic; Bridge - '57 Classic Plus Among the qualities that make Gibson's original "Patent Applied For" humbucking pickups so unique are the subtle variations between coil windings. For the first few years of their productions—1955 to 1961—Gibson's PAF humbuckers were wound using imprecise machines, resulting in pickups with slightly different output and tone. The '57 Classic and '57 Classic Plus pickups are the result of Gibson drive to capture and recreate this characteristic. Introduced in 1992, the '57 Classic provides warm, full tone with a balanced response, packing that classic Gibson PAF humbucker crunch. The '57 Classic Plus is the perfect bridge-position companion to the '57 Classic, inspired by those original PAFs that received a few extra turns of wire. Both are made by Gibson to the exact same specs as the original PAFs, including Alnico II magnets, nickel-plated pole pieces, nickel slugs, maple spacers, and vintage-style, two-conductor braided wiring. Gibson added poly-coated wiring, which improves consistency by eliminating thick or thin spots on the wiring, and wax potting, which removes all internal air space and any chance of microphonic feedback. Revolutionary Plek Set Up The Les Paul Traditional is the first model from Gibson USA to utilize the revolutionary Plek machine in setting up the guitar. The Plek is a German-made, computer-controlled machine that carefully measures each fret, along with the fingerboard height under each string, and then automatically dresses each fret, virtually eliminating string buzz and greatly improving the overall playability of the guitar. This pioneering process does in minutes what it takes a luthier several hours—sometimes even days—to accomplish. Every fret is accurately aligned, and the guitar is properly intonated, leaving the instrument "Plek'd" and amazingly playable. Antique Binding To see the process of putting the binding on the Les Paul Traditional is to really appreciate the effort and attention that Gibson puts into each instrument. A lone craftsman will carefully glue and fit two pieces of binding around the entire body of a Les Paul. He then winds a single, very long piece of narrow cloth around the entire body until the entire surface is nearly covered. The body is then hung to dry for a full 24 hours before it is unwrapped and moved into the next phase of production. It has been done the same way for over 100 years. Some question the value of adding binding, but Gibson believes it is a fundamental part of our rich guitar-making history. The binding adds elegance to the Les Paul Standard, and helps protect the edges of the body. The neck binding is installed over the fret ends, which eliminates sharp fret edges and provides for a smooth neck and easier playability.
