Gibson 1961 Les Paul SG Guitars: Gibson accomplished a huge abatement in electric guitar sales mainly because of their top prices and huge antagonism from Fender’s agnate but abundant lighter double-cutaway architecture in 1960 on The Stratocaster Guitar. Gibson again fabricated changes to the abominable guitar line. The 1961 guitar was thinner and abundant lighter than the antecedent guitars, with two acutely acicular cut-aways and vibrato system. Nevertheless, the adapt was done after Les Paul’s knowledge…ooops. The artist saw the guitar, he gasped, and he asked Gibson to abolish his name from the guitar and he said goodbye to Gibson. Even admitting this break happened in 1960, Gibson had a huge banal of Les Paul logos and bandage rod covers, and so they connected to use the Les Paul name until about 1963. That is if the SG guitar’s name  gibson les paul 1959 was assuredly adapted to SG, which stands for Solid Guitar. Plus the SG line, Gibson connected to affair the beneath big-ticket Les Paul Jr’s and Les Paul Specials (and the Melody Makers) with the newer physique style. These were the accepted Gibson electric models until the reintroduction of the Les Paul Accepted Goldtop and the Les Paul Custom guitars to the bazaar in 1968.

Gibson Les Paul Recording Guitar: This guitar is generally alone by guitar purists who accede it to be too abounding of accessories and buttons. The Recording appearance low-impedance pickups, abounding switches and buttons, and a awful specialized cable for impedance-matching to the amplifier. Beneath apparent changes included, but were not bound to, maple fingerboards (1976), auto atrium shielding, and the crossover of the ABR1 Tune-o-matic arch into the avant-garde day Nashville Tune-o-matic bridge.