For Sale or Trade while I’m in Nashville on Monday & Tuesday ONLY (April 22nd and 23rd) - staying at W Hotel in Nashville you would have to come to me. Joe Bonamassa Gibson USA BurstbuckerTM Pickups: 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 “2015” Epiphone Les Paul features a Burstbucker-2TM in the neck position a slighter hotter-wound Burstbucker-3TMin the bridge position. 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 at the Gibson/Epiphone factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Burstbuckers feature unpolished magnets and non-potted coils 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 "2015" 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 favorite ’59 Les Paul Standard. Epiphone's patent-applied-for LockTone™ Tune-o-matic bridge and the rock standard Bigsby® vibrato along with premium Grover™ machine heads with a 18:1 tuning ratio, make set-up and intonation easy and rock solid. And of course, the Joe Bonamassa “2015” Les Paul comes with Epiphone standard solid Nickel hardware, an Epiphone non-rotating ¼” output jack. And to complete the look of Joe’s priceless vintage Les Pauls, Joe’s new “2015” Epiphone Les Paul comes with a classic “Lifton Styled” Hard Shell Case along with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by Joe Bonamassa. You don’t have to have a vintage Les Paul to sound like Joe. Play a Ltd Ed "2015" Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard w/ Bigsby® Outfit today at your Authorized Epiphone Dealer. Specifications: Body Material: Mahogany Top Material: Carved Hard Maple Cap Neck Material: Mahogany Neck Shape: Rounded D-profile; 1959 shape Neck Joint: "Deep-Set" Glued-In Truss Rod: Adjustable Scale Length: 24.75" Fingerboard Material: Rosewood with pearloid "Trapezoid" inlays Fingerboard Radius: 12" Frets: 22; medium-jumbo Bridge Pickup: Gibson USA BurstBucker™ 3 Humbucker Neck Pickup: Gibson USA BurstBucker™ 2 Humbucker Controls: Bridge Volume Neck Volume Bridge Tone Neck Tone Epiphone all-metal 3-way toggle Bridge: LockTone™ Tune-o-matic/Stopbar Nut Width: 1-11/16" Hardware: Nickel Binding: Body and Fingerboard Machine Heads: Grover™ 18:1 ratio Colors: Inverness Green Includes: Lifton-style Hardshell Case Hand-Signed Certificate of Authenticity