The Gibson Les Paul Deluxe 70s Electric Guitar is back and better than ever... quite literally! We all know the 70s era Gibson Guitars left a lot to be desired by many players. Well, Gibson is righting the wrongs by eliminating the pancake bodies, weird headstock volutes, 27-piece tops, and general poor craftsmanship for the best LP Deluxe ever made!
Traditional Les Paul tonewoods get things started. A carved Maple top glued to a mahogany back (with no weight relief) makes up the body. This guitar weighs in at 9 lbs 13 oz. Single Ply Cream Binding sets of the nitrocellulose Gold Top finish perfectly!
The neck is made from Mahogany and carved into a Rounded C Profile. A Rosewood Fingerboard carries a 12" fingerboard radius, while 24.75" scale length, and 1.70" nut width offer that classic Gibson feel. Other notables include 22 Medium-Jumbo frets, a Graph Tech nut, acrylic trapezoid inlays, and cream fingerboard binding to match the body.
The electronics consist of a pair of Gibson Mini Humbuckers. These pickups have a brighter top end, less congested or compressed low-end, and a biting mid-range that makes them jump out of the mix without a whole lot of fussing. Each pickup has a volume and tone control and is accessible via the 3-way pickup toggle switch.
From Gibson's Website...
First released in 1969, the Deluxe saw the introduction of the mini humbucker™ to the Les Paul lineup. Mini humbuckers retain the hum-free performance of their full-sized cousins but with a somewhat clearer and brighter tonality. The new Deluxe has features that were inspired by those early models from the 1970s, with a non-weight relief mahogany body and bound maple top, a bound mahogany neck with a Rounded C profile, vintage-style Keystone tuners, Graph Tech® nut, and a traditional Les Paul control layout with 2 Volume and 2 Tone controls wired with Orange Drop® capacitors.
