Gibson Les Paul Junior Vintage Guitars

Nearly a quarter century before Edward Van Halen brought the idea of the single-pickup solid body guitar screaming into the Eighties, Gibson stumbled upon the fact that a solid slab of wood with one burly-ass pickup is all yo need to rock the rafters.

The year was 1954, and Gibson needed a cheap guitar to satisfy the millions of fledgling rock and rollers ichin’ for an affordable six-string. Gibson’s solution? The bare-bones Les Paul Junior, a single-cutaway axe with a one-piece mahogany body, mahogany neck, non-intonatable stop tailpiece, a solitary P-90 single-coil pickup and one volume and one tone control. Finish it off with a sunburst finish and a cardboard “alligator case,” and voila’! A guitar for the masses. Read more

The Gibson Les Paul Junior Saga

The names of guitarists like Mick Box of Uriah Heep, Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leslie West of Mountain and more recently Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is in fact enough to emphasize the contribution made by Les Paul Junior guitars in the history of music or more appropriately in the chronicle of ‘rock of ages’. Though it may sound somewhat hard to believe, but the fact remains that Gibson, keeping in mind the beginners as their target customers, launched this particular model of guitar. Read more