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- Type: Electric
- Manufacturer: Gibson
- Model/Stylename: Les Paul Traditional Pro
- Serial Number: 115310354
- Serial Number Location: headstock
- Condition: Perfect
- Description:
- Vintage Guitar? No
- Modifications: Modified
- Custom Graphics: none
- Comments: Black Custom 5 ply pick guard, nickel pup covers, black pup surrounds, black switch washer, strap locks.
Additional Information
- Original Owner: Yes
- Where Purchased: musicians friend
- Year Manufactured: 2011
- Country of Origin: USA
- Original Factory Tags: Yes
- Logo Location: headstock
- Guitar Weight: 10 lbs. 13 oz.
- Original Case: Yes
Guitar Body
- Body Color: Cherry
- Body Shape: Single Cut out
- Scale: 24.75
- Body Wood: Mahagoney
- Neck Wood: Mahagoney
- Fret Board/Fingerboard Wood: Rosewood
- Side Wood: Mahagoney
- Top Wood: Maple
- Finish/Laquer: Nitro Cellulose
- Body Options: Fixed Bridge
Accessories
- Pickguard: Yes
- Pickguard Color: black
- Comments: Les Paul Custom 5 ply
Control Knobs
- Volume: Two
- Tone: Two
- Pick-up Switching: 5 Position
- Tremelo: No
- Knob Shape: speed knobs
- Knob Color: black
Electronics
- Jack Location: Side
- Neckshape: slim taper 60's profile
Pickups
- Number: Two
- Neck Pickup Manufacturer: Gibson
- Neck Pickup Type: 57 classic with coil splitting
- Pickup Covers: Yes
- Pickup Covers: nickel
- Bridge Pickup Manufacturer: Gibson
- Bridge Pickup Type: Burstbucker 3 with push/pull coil splitting
- Fret Board Wood: Rosewood
- Position Inlay: Yes : trapazoidal inlays
- Truss Rod Cover: black
- Number of Frets: 22
- Tuners: Grover locking
- Neckplate: No
- Nut Width: 1.69"
Provenance Documentation
Original Sales Receipt
I’m interested in picking up a new “2011″ year model and; How do you feel this guitar compares to the older model’s. Have you experience with older years? It seems folks want the older models and I wonder why. With technology these days wouldn’t the newer be better or doing it the old way is ” no other way”? I had a 69 L.P. and loved it, but playing one in the store brand new was also a wonderful experience. Is there really a ” no comparison ” between the older & the new?
I think if I had it to do over again I would spring a few hundred more for the traditional plus. One piece body as opposed to 2 piece on the pro. Coil splitting while a cool feature for a gigging musician, does not really gain me anything since I got a les paul not a tele or strat. I dig the solid body.
Come to think of it the new white studio can be had with nice pups, solid mahogany and an ebony fretboard all for the screaming low price of 900 bucks. Yep, on second thought I would probably save myself a grand and get the Studio Mahogany in faded white which gives the ebony fretboard. Satin Black gets you rosewood fretboard.
I just started playing last year. My unce had a 71 Black Beauty Custom but to me that was like the Holy Grail of guitars, most of the reason I have always had wood for a Les Paul. I do like the versatility of the coil splitting, cool strat/tele sounds are just a knob pull away. with the Plek’d setup its nice and low and plays tight with no buzz anywhere. I dont really dig the zebra pup look so I put on nickel covers. It is a solid body like the one you used to own, mine weighs 10lbs. 13oz. so its a heavy piece of mahogany and maple.
I think people prefer the vintage guitars simply because Gibson was the shit back then period. They have had quality issues for about 10 years from what guys tell me and also they chamber alot of their les pauls now so they really are a different beast. I got my traditional pro specifically because it was a solid body, the coil tapping was just icing on the cake. Good luck, I hope my rambling helped you in some way.
I ended up taking the pickup covers off. I am glad now that I did not solder them on. Even right down on the pups the covers seemed to change the tone quite a bit. I love the look but not enough to sacrifice tone.