Gibson | 1955 Les Paul Standard Gold Top

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, factory manager John Huis and their team. Its design typically comprises a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top and a single cutaway, a mahogany set-in neck with a rosewood fretboard, two pickups with independent volume and tone controls, and a stoptail bridge, although variants exist.

The Les Paul was originally offered with a gold finish and two P-90 pickups. In 1957, humbucking pickups were added, along with sunburst finishes in 1958.

Solid mahogany body with a solid carved maple top. One-piece mahogany neck with a nut width of 1 11/16 inches, a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a nice fat profile. . The top of the guitar has a single cream binding and the fretboard has single white binding. Headstock with inlaid pearl “Gibson” logo and with “Les Paul Model” silk-screened in gold. Two-layer (black on white) plastic truss-rod cover. Individual single-line “no-name” Kluson Deluxe tuners with single-ring tulip-shaped Keystone plastic buttons (stamped on the inside “2356766 PAT APPLD.”). Two very hot P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.87k and 7.90k. Cream plastic pick-up covers stamped inside “UC-452-F/1” (on the neck pickup) and “UC-452-B/2” (on the bridge pickup). Single-layer cream plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic bell-shaped “Bell” knobs. The potentiometers are stamped “134 522” (Centralab May 1955) and the two original capacitors are stamped “Grey Tiger Type GT 452 .02 MFD 400 VDC.” ABR-1 non-retainer Tune-O-Matic bridge with metal saddles and separate “wrap-over” stud tailpiece