Unleash the sizzling sounds of a classic rock icon with the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute. Featuring dual mini-humbuckers and an array of old-school hardware, this axe wails with the versatile tones and striking style of a vintage Les Paul. Available at an attractive low price, the '70s Tribute is an outstanding opportunity to add a genuine Gibson legend to your collection.

Dual Mini-Humbucker Pickups

Like the Les Paul Deluxe of the '70s and various Firebirds of the '60s, this bad boy comes loaded with a pair of powerful mini-humbucker pickups. The newly designed dual blade alnico mini-humbuckers offer a dazzling array of tones with exceptional balance and bite. Shred on the highest reaches of the fretboard or strike heavier power-chords near the nut, and these scorching pickups will ignite your tone with classic Les Paul flavor. With a deep-set neck tenon and mahogany body yielding that signature Gibson sustain, the '70s Tribute Studio retains all the prized tonal qualities of an original Les Paul.

Comfortable Body, Comfortable Neck

Starting with the tried-and-true combination of a mahogany body with a carved maple top, the '70s tribute provides a fantastic all-around playing experience. The body has been specifically weight-relieved for more comfortable balance when strapped in, and the fingerboard is constructed from smooth, sturdy baked maple. The neck features a thin-to-thick profile that starts out thinner near the headstock and thickens out a bit through its upper reaches. The result is a superb playing balance throughout the guitar that invites both chunky rhythm parts and ferocious, upper-octave soloing.

Vintage Gibson Style

While it may lack some of the fancier cosmetic features of a higher-end Gibson (like neck binding), this Les Paul still shines with a stunning vintage vibe and swagger. Old-school hardware includes gold volume and tone knobs, tune-o-matic bridge, stopbar tailpiece, and trapezoid inlays all in the mold of a 1970s Les Paul deluxe. Adding to the decisively vintage style is a grain-textured satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish which gives the look and feel of a several decade old guitar.

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Features:

- Classic Les Paul wood configuration of mahogany body with carved maple top
- Pair of dual blade alnico mini-humbucker pickups offer hot yet well-rounded Les Paul tone
- Vintage-style hardware with chrome tune-o-matic bridge, stopbar tailpiece, and gold knobs
- Maple neck in comfortable thin-to-thick profile
- Grain-textured satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Baked maple fingerboard with trapezoid inlays
- Included Gibson gig bag

When you think of the Les Paul icons of the '70s, you think of players like Jimmy Page or Paul Kossoff of Free. Play with the same fat tone and juicy sustain that helped them define the sound of a decade with the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute. zZounds is an authorized dealer of Gibson products.

- Body: Mahogany
- Neck: Maple, SG Rounded w/Volute, 17-Degree Headstock angle
- Fingerboard: Baked Maple Trapezoid Inlays
- Hardware: Chrome Tune-o-Matic, Vintage Style Tuners
- Electronics: Dual Mini Humbuckers

Product Description

The foundations of much of today's great music were laid down in the 1970s, and much of it was performed on great Gibson guitars of the era. To capture the look, feel and tone of the instruments that made massive music during a decade when rock was king, Gibson USA introduces the Gibson Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute. It's part of a series that also includes a Firebird Studio and SG Studio with complementary features.

A Classic Twist on a Traditional Tone Machine

The Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute offers all the quality and performance that has made the Studio range so popular with hard-gigging guitarists since its introduction in 1983, with crucial updates that ally it with many legendary Gibson guitars of the 1970s. The Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute achieves the unique feel of a 1970s Les Paul with a thin-to-thick neck profile that starts out slim at the lower frets and becomes increasingly chunky as you slide toward the cutaway. In the tone department, it carries a pair of new Dual Blade Alnico Mini Humbuckers for a vintage-edged tone with great versatility, and a visual nod toward the Les Paul Deluxe of the '70s. To top it off, the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute looks great in your choice of Vintage Sunburst, Cherry, Gold Top or Silver Burst finish, all in grain-textured satin nitrocellulose lacquer.

Body

Like the most revered Les Paul Standards of all time, the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute 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 mahogany back is strategically weight relieved to both lighten your load and improve resonance. Like many Les Pauls of the '70s, the neck is made from maple and carved to a profile unique to the era, which measures .800" deep at the 1st fret and increases to .963" at the 12th, with a volute behind the nut to both strengthen the headstock joint and enhance neck resonance. A chocolate-brown baked maple fingerboard carries traditional trapezoid inlays, and terminates in a PLEK-cut Corian nut with a width of 1-11/16". Like many Studio models, the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute keeps it all down to basics--and saves you money--by omitting neck and body binding. Its look is complemented by a cream pickguard and pickup rings and gold knobs (Vintage Sunburst and Gold Top) or black guard, rings and knobs (Silver Burst and Cherry), and traditional gold Gibson and Les Paul Model silkscreens on all but the Silver Burst, which has silver silkscreens.

Pickups

To help the Les Paul Studio '70s Tribute rock with unparalleled character and articulation, Gibson USA loads it with a pair of Dual Blade Alnico Mini Humbuckers. Entirely new pickups from Gibson USA, these units improve upon the best attributes of the former Mini Humbuckers seen in the Les Paul Deluxe in the '70s, and the different Firebird Mini Humbuckers of the early '60s, in an efficient design that uses dual steel blades and an Alnico magnet for a vintage voice that still retains plenty of chime. These pickups are calibrated for balanced output between the neck and bridge positions, yielding everything from singing bluesy neck tones to crunchy and wailing leads, and are dressed in solid chrome covers. They are routed through the traditional four-knob and three-way switch wiring set up, and partnered with a Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece for optimum sustain and precise intonation. A set of vintage-style TonePros tuners with pearloid keys rounds out the package. Each guitar includes a Gibson gigbag and owner's manual, and is covered by Gibson's Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 Customer Service.