I’ve always thought the old late 50s Les Paul Juniors were super cool, so I made my own version.
You have a choice of pickups, P-90s or humbuckers, or both. I feel very fortunate to be working with Cutis Novak and he’s come up with something really special for these guitars. With the P-90s you can howl but also dial in a really great warm jazz tone. The humbuckers get a cleaner more transparent tone to work with and the two volume knobs are push/pull pots so that you can split the coils on each humbucker adding a whole other layer of tonal possibilities. I’ve connected the tone pots with replica Bumblebee capacitors from Emerson. They are wired 50s style, meaning the tone controls receive their signal from the output of the volume pot, rather than the input. The position of the volume pot affects the tone control, so the tone will change as you increase the volume.
$3700 with 1 Pickup and $3800 with 2
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TECH SPECS
| Body: Sapele or Mahogany Body Length: 17-1/4″ Total Length: 38-1/2″ Upper Bout Width: 8-7/8″ Lower Bout Width: 12-3/4″ Waist: 7″ Body Depth: 1-3/8″ Weight: 7.2lb Mahogany Neck Ebony Bound Fretboard Black Pearl Fret Markers and Side Dots Width at Bone Nut: 1-11/16″ 24.562” Scale 12” Radius 22 Frets, Neck Joins the Body at the 16th Neck Carve is similar to a ’59 Les Paul 2 Way Truss Tortoise Pickguard Emerson Potentiometers Emerson Bumblebee Capacitors Switchcraft Toggle and Jack Bridge from Schroeder Hardware Golden Age Restoration Tuners Dyed Black Osmo PolyX Finish Hand wound Strings from Gabriel Tenorio Custom TKL Hardshell Case |
OptionsPickups by Curtis Novak |