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Gibson 1954 Les Paul

Gibson 1954 Les Paul

This guitar is one of 4 known lefties produced, and has been pictured in the following publications:

"Guitars, Guitars, Guitars: A Pictorial Reference Manual" By Dave Crocker, published in 1988
(Note that it is incorrectly identified as a 1953)
"Uncommon Sound" By John Engel, published in 2006

How we came to own this guitar

Alicia poses with Les Paul and her 1954 Les Paul — The host of the Southpaw Sanctum with The Man!

Gibson 1954 Les Paul headstock

Gibson 1954 Les Paul back closeup

Gibson 1954 Les Paul closeup

Gibson 1954 Les Paul

Gibson 1954 Les Paul back

Original control cavity — The control cavity as we received it.

Replaced control cavity internals — The control cavity as we have it now.

Cleaned and empty control cavity — The control cavity cleaned up.

Empty control cavity with original input jack hole — The control cavity cleaned up showing the early style hole for the input jack wire.

Neck pickup route — The neck pickup route for the pickup wire.

polepiece route — The neck pickup route showing how the polepiece route is hand done

Tan line — The tan line.

The bridge pickup route — The bridge pickup route.

Xray of 1954 Les Paul — An X-ray showing how the routing channel was done. You can clearly see that the routing for a lefty was done without any fixtures!

Knobs — Check, check!