| Comments | Now THIS is a rock guitar! Here’s a Gibson Les Paul Junior Lite from 1999, looking remarkably like a Les Paul Special.
The Les Paul Special was introduced in 1955 as a single-cutaway guitar to provide a lower cost model in the Les Paul line, and it immediately took a place in the rock arsenal. In 1958, it received a major makeover with the double-cut (DC) body design, which provides unrestricted access to all the frets. However, the DC model was discontinued during 1960, in favour of the new body design that became known as the SG. Over the years, the Double-Cut body shape has been reissued in various forms. From 1999 to 2002, Gibson produced the guitar shown here, is a Special with P-100 hum-cancelling soapbar style pickups and mini trapezoidal markers, and called it the Junior Lite. |
| Serial Number | 90639488, built 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Pricing | $1,100.00 CAD with gig bag case. SOLD |
| Neck | Mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard, mini trapezoidal markers in faux mother of pearl. Black headstock with Les Paul Model decal and mother of pearl Gibson inlay. 24.75″ scale length. |
| Frets | 22 Original frets with minor wear. |
| Body | Les Paul Double Cut design in solid mahogany. Full access to all the frets. |
| Finish | Original gloss black nitrocellulose lacquer finish with some wear and marking. Looks great! Later versions of this instrument use a faded and/or satin finish; this is from the gloss period. |
| Hardware/electronics | All original hardware with two P-100 pickups, individual volume and tone controls, pickup selector, chrome tune-o-matic and stop tailpiece, chrome Kluson-type strip tuners with white plastic buttons. |
| Playability/Action | This really plays great, and for me, rock stuff just falls out of it. |
| Case | Gig bag included. |
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