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