EPIPHONE LIMITED EDITION JOE BONAMASSA PAUL STANDARD OUTFIT
o Based on Joe Bonamassa’s own Gibson Les Paul Standard
o Gibson Burstbucker Pickups
o Includes Signature Hard Case
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Modern blues legend and Grammy nominee, Joe Bonamassa returns with his third Epiphone Signature Model, the new Epiphone Limited Edition Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard with Bigsby® Outfit.
Featuring the exclusive Inverness Green Lacquer finish, Gibson® Burstbucker humbucker pickups and a classic Bigsby® B70 vibrato along with a Les Paul-classic “Lifton” style hard case, this Limited Edition outfit is the stuff that dreams are made of. Blink once and it’ll be gone!
Joe Bonamassa has been part of the “House of Stathopoulo” family since 2011 and he has worked closely with Epiphone’s luthiers at the Epi headquarters in Nashville to create a new Les Paul Standard that incorporates his favourite features from his collection of priceless vintage Les Pauls from the late 50s. This baby comes complete with a Bigsby® B70 vibrato!
Joe Bonamassa is not only a superb and prolific artist but a genuine music fan . . . deeply committed to the story and heritage of the many players who have inspired his sound, from Rolling Fork, Mississippi and across the Atlantic to London.
Joe Bonamassa’s extraordinary technique and passionate performances have already inspired two signature Limited Edition Epiphone Les Paul Standards, his “Goldtop” and Les Paul Standard in Pelham Blue.
Now with a hint of further exclusivity, Joe Bonamassa adds another twist to his musical oddessy with the Limited Edition Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard with Bigsby® Outfit in Inverness Green Lacquer.
This is a historic model from the Epiphone Vault . . . this is the first Epiphone Les Paul signature model to feature the classic Bigsby® B70 vibrato, chosen by Joe Bonamassa to match his own prized vintage Les Paul!
The Limited Edition Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard with Bigsby® Outfit has been designed in close cooperation with Joe himself and includes many of his favourite design details drawn from his collection of vintage Les Paul Standards . . . designed by Mr. Les Paul himself to “sustain for days.”
This Limited Edition Inverness Green Les Paul Standard features a Mahogany body with the same classic “Les Paul” profile used on all Les Pauls since they were first produced at the Gibson/Epiphone factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan back in the 1950’s.
The top has a Carved Maple Cap and is finished exclusively in Inverness Green Lacquer at Joe’s request. The traditional Mahogany neck has a rounded D-profile with the “1959” shape modeled after Joe’s favourite ’59 Les Paul Standard and is deep-set into the body and hand-glued.
The neck has a 12″ radius with a Rosewood fingerboard adorned with classic “Trapezoid” inlays, a standard 24.75″ scale length, 22 medium jumbo frets and a standard 1 11/16″ nut.
The truss rod cover has the familiar Les Paul “bell-shape” with “Bonamassa” engraved in capital letters and the trademark “Les Paul” signature in gold on the headstock.
Joe Bonamassa has counted on Gibson Burstbucker humbuckers for all of his Epiphone signature models as well as his rare custom models. Nothing else comes closer to the sound of late 50s hand-wound “PAF”-style humbuckers than Gibson USA Burstbuckers.
Joe’s new Epiphone Les Paul features a Burstbucker 2TM in the neck position and a slighter hotter wound Burstbucker 3TM in the bridge position for endless sustain.
There’s no better match up than a Les Paul with humbuckers and just like the originals, each Gibson USA Burstbucker humbucker has its own individual “voice” enabling players to develop their own person tone and style.
The original humbucker was first invented and perfected by Seth Lover at the Gibson/Epiphone factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the early 1950’s. Burstbuckers feature unpolished magnets and non-potted coils just like the first generation of humbuckers.
The myriad of variations in the output and tone of original “Patent Applied For” pickups came from inconsistencies in winding the bobbins, a result of the lack of automatic shutoffs on Gibson’s winding machines in the late 1950s.
Seth Lover, who invented the humbucker, recalled that original “Patent Applied For” pickups were wound “until they were full.” When two coils in a pickup have a different number of turns, that variation puts a little “edge” or “bite” on the classic humbucker sound.
Controls for the new Ltd. Ed. Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard w/Bigsby® Outfit feature the now-classic set of mismatched Gold “Top Hat” knobs for the bridge and neck pickup controls, just like Joe’s favourite ’59 Les Paul Standard.
