THE 1959 LES PAUL STANDARD!
By Glad E. Foundet

 

After years of searching, a friend told me of a guitar in a tiny shop that I should have a look at. I brought my own Les Paul to pitch it against, and the sound was spot on! Much money changed hands and I drove it home like an excited sixteen year old. After a mild panic when the bridge pickup seemed faulty, I replaced it with a pickup from a pair of 40-year-old Gibson humbuckers I had sitting around. I am completely delighted with this new "brother" to my Custom. I can't put it down. I keep thinking, "if only I could have had a '59 Standard at sixteen!" We can't change the past but the important thing is that now I have the blues sound I always wanted!