DISC Gibson Les Paul Studio 2018, Smokehouse Burst

Full Description

The Classic Les Paul Style

The Les Paul Studio features the iconic body style crafted from lightweight mahogany, delivering a stunning guitar with beautifully sweet, warm tonal characteristics. The single-cutaway design provides incredible access to the upper frets, while its smooth construction ensures players receive a comfortable performance. The mahogany is topped with plain maple and finished in a stunning smokehouse burst, showing off the beautiful figuring of the wood to create an incredible aesthetic.

Ultra Modern Weight Relief

The Gibson Les Paul Studio features an ultra-modern weight relief chambered body for extra comfort and an enhanced resonance. This weight-relief process involves routing nine round holes in the mahogany body before the stunning maple top is attached. These holes are strategically placed in the lower bouts on the bass-side of the guitar, offering you a comfortably lightweight guitar that can be played comfortably all night long.

Slim Taper Mahogany Neck

The Gibson Guitar not only offers a comfortable body, but features a slim tapered neck profile to deliver an incredibly comfortable performance. The mahogany neck provides the ultimate comfort with its slim profile, and allows for fast and comfortable soloing. As well as providing fluid hand flexibility, the mahogany wood helps enhance the natural warmth of the body, creating a high-end saturated in sparkling sweetness and a thick low-end response. The addition of a rosewood fingerboard helps enhance the natural characteristics of the body, adding extra sparkle to the high end and opening up the midrange.

'57 Classic Humbuckers

The Les Paul Studio is equipped with a set of '57 Classic humbucker pickups, which are almost as iconic as the Les Paul guitar itself. Based on the original PAF humbucker pickup, these '57 Classics are designed to the same specs as the pickup that started it all back in the 1950s. Players can enjoy a balanced warm, clean tone, with plenty of crunch and attack for the harder stuff. Independent volume and tone controls provide players with excellent tone shaping, with the addition of push-pull functions on the two volume knobs to expand the guitar's tonal possibilities.

Aluminium Tune-O-Matic Bridge

The Tune-O-Matic bridge offers stability, reliability, a comfortable playing position, and impressive sustain. Adjusting the string action and intonation is extremely simple with a tune-o-matic bridge, as you simply adjust its height with the mounting rods to alter the action, and screw the bridge saddles in or out to achieve perfect intonation. The separate "stop bar" tailpiece is designed to further enhance the connection between the strings and the body, offering greater vibration transfer for an enhanced resonance.

TekToid Nut

The addition of a TekToid graphite nut offers increased harmonics in the middle and upper frequency range, perfect for creating a rich and detailed tone. TekToid Graphite is the best high-tech cure for eliminating undesirable friction within the nut, which can cause tuning problems. It is the ideal choice for a guitar nut, as it has excellent conductive qualities which overall benefit a guitar’s tone and sustain.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Style: Les Paul Studio
• Top: Plain Maple
• Body: Mahogany
• Weight Relief: Ultra-Modern
• Bridge: Aluminium Tune-O-Matic
• Tailpiece: Aluminium Stop Bar
• Construction: Set-In
• Finish: Smokehouse Burst

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Mahogany
• Profile: Slim Taper
• Scale Length: 24.75''
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Binding: White
• Binding Style: Rolled Over Frets
• Frets: 22 Medium, Cryogenically Treated
• Inlays: Acrylic Trapezoids
• Nut: Tektoid
• Nut Width: 1.695''

Hardware & Electronics

• Bridge Pickup: 57 Classic Humbucker
• Neck Pickup: 57 Classic + Humbucker
• Controls: 2 x Volume (Push/Pull Coil-Tap), 2 x Tone, Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Kidneys
• Control Knobs: Black Speed
• Hardware: Chrome
• Case Included: Hardshell