Gibson Les Paul Studio In Green Swirl

Gibson Les Paul Studio in Green Swirl

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Gibson Les Paul Studio Green Swirl
The Les Paul Studio Swirl is a stunning new addition to the popular Studio series, which has been bringing full-fledged Les Paul performance and tone to hard-working musicians since its introduction in 1983. These guitars include all the classic ingredients that have made the Les Paul Standard legendary since humbuckers first hit the model 1957, but add four exotic swirl finishes to the formula, while retaining the down-to-business package that is light on frills, heavy on swagger, and easy on the pocket. Not one element of construction or component quality is sacrificed to bring you this high-performance electric guitar, and the Gibson USA Les Paul Studio Swirl might just be the most head-turning Studio model ever produced.

A handful of cosmetic simplifications help to bring this Les Paul in at a truly astounding price. A minimalist finishing process results in a thin nitrocellulose finish in one of four gorgeous new “swirl” options: Black/Green Swirl, Black/Silver Swirl, Gold/Blue Swirl, and Silver/Blue Swirl. A lack of binding around the body top and fingerboard also gives a tactile, organic look and feel to the instrument as a whole. Where tone and performance are concerned, however, the Studio Swirl model stays right in the legendary Les Paul Standard’s wheelhouse, with the timeless hardware that has helped to make Les Pauls total sustain monsters for more than five decades. The pickups are a pair of Gibson’s most popular humbuckers, a 490R in the neck and a 498T in the bridge, both made with 42-AWG wire and genuine Alnico magnets (Alnico II and Alnico V respectively) just like the original PAF humbuckers. Wrap it all up, and it’s an unparalleled package for anyone from the discerning studio musician to the hard-touring artist in search of a no-nonsense tone machine that stands out on the stage. And at this price, there’s no reason not to check out the Les Paul Studio Swirl today—and make it your very own.

Just like the most revered Les Paul Standards of all time, this Les Paul Studio Swirl starts with the classic tonewood combination of a mahogany body with solid carved maple top. Together, these woods offer outstanding tonal depth and richness from the mahogany, with superb clarity and “snap” from the maple. In this model, the strategic placement of several tone chambers enhances resonance while also reducing the guitar’s overall weight considerably, without sacrificing an ounce of punch or sustain. And even in this more affordable instrument from Gibson USA, the glued-in solid-mahogany neck is cut to the superior “quarter-sawn” grain orientation for superior strength and optimum resonance transfer between neck and body. For the fingerboard, Gibson USA uses exotic Obeche, a hard-wearing dark wood that is not unlike Ebony wood in appearance.

To further maximize all that vibrational energy, Gibson includes its legendary Tune-o-matic bridge and stud-mounted Stop Bar tailpiece, arguably the most storied hardware combination in the history of the electric guitar. Designed to allow precise intonation of individual strings for perfectly in-tune playing, this bridge and tailpiece pairing also provides rock-solid string anchoring at the body end. Of course, to make optimum use of all that sweet resonance and singing sustain you need a couple of superb pickups, and the Les Paul Studio Swirl with Maple Top carries a pair of the very best: a 490R in the neck position gives you warm, rich tones with outstanding clarity, while a slightly hotter 498T is great for singing solos and crunchy rhythm parts. Both are made with genuine Alnico magnets, and feature wax-potted coils to squelch microphonic squeal at high volumes.

All this tonal splendor would do you little good without superb playability, and the Les Paul Studio Swirl excels in this department, too. A rounded ’50s neck profile is extremely comfortable in the hand while still fast and supple under the fingertips, and the fingerboard’s 12-inch radius and 22 medium-jumbo frets offer easy bending with no choking out. To top it all off, the Les Paul Studio Swirl with Maple Top looks great in your choice of Black/Green Swirl, Black/Silver Swirl, Gold/Blue Swirl, and Silver/Blue Swirl finish, all in genuine nitrocellulose lacquer, naturally. All this, and your guitar comes protected in a Gibson Hardshell case, and covered by Gibson’s famous Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 customer service.


Body
Top     Maple
Back     Mahogany
Body Type     Chambered
Adhesive     Franklin Titebond 50
Body
Neck
Species     Mahogany
Profile     '50s Rounded
Truss Rod     Traditional Adjustable
Joint Angle     5° (+/- 15 seconds)
Adhesive     Franklin Titebond 50
Neck
Neck Fit
Joint     Mortise & Tenon
Adhesive     Franklin Titebond 50
Joint Angle Tolerance     +/- .005"
Neck Fit
Fingerboard
Species     Obeche
Frets     22
Radius     12"
Nut/E.O.B     1.695"/2.260"
Scale Length     24.75
Inlays     White Acrylic Trapezoids
Fingerboard
Nut
Material     Corian
Width     1.695
Slots     Gibson PLEK System
Nut
Headstock
Logo     Silver "Gibson" Logo with scripted "Les Paul Model" Silkscreen
Truss Rod Cover     Black and White Antique Bell

Headstock
Tuners
Model     Grover™ Kidney
Plating     Chrome
Tuning Ratio     14:1

Tuners
Bridge
Type     Tune-O-Matic
Material     Zamak
Plating     Chrome
Bridge
Tailpiece
Type     Stop Bar
Material     Zamak
Plating     Chrome
Tailpiece
Hardware
Knobs     Black Speed Knobs
Toggle Switch Washer     Black with White Imprint
Pickup Mounting Rings     Black Plastic
Control Plate Cover     Black Plastic
Strings     .010 - .046, Genuine Gibson strings
Strap Buttons     Aluminum
Hardware
Pickups
Neck Position     490R (Alnico II)
Bridge Position     498T (Alnico V)
Pickups
Electronics
Potentiometers     2 Volume Controls, 2 Tone Controls
Type     300k Linear Volume, 500k Non-linear Tone
Coil Wiring     Machine Wound
Toggle Switch     Three-way Switchcraft with Black Plastic Tip
Output Jack     Traditional 1/4"
Electronics
Finish
Sealer     Nitrocellulose
Surface Texture     High Gloss
Process     1-1.5 mils
Silver Swirl Burst Green Swirl Burst Blue Swirl Gold Swirl
Case
Type     Gibson Hardshell
Case Exterior     Black
Case Exterior     White Plush
Case
Accessories
Additional Materials     Each Les Paul Studio Swirl comes with adjustment literature, and documentation for the guitar’s Limited Lifetime Warranty, along with Gibson’s 24/7/365 Customer Service.

 

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