Jeff Beck Les Paul Standard

Completion Date: December 2002

Body: Mahogany body, maple cap -- standard Les Paul Standard.

Neck: One-piece mahogany. '59 Les Paul profile. Rosewood fingerboard.

Pickups: Two standard Gibson USA PAFs. The wiring is standard Les Paul.

Finish: Black nitrocellulose lacquer with clear lacquer topcoats.

Brief Description: This guitar was in an absolutely trashed state when I received it. I bought the guitar from a pawnbroker friend of mine that had taken it on a trade. The neck was cracked, the headstock had a huge crack in it, a Kahler Flyer tremolo had been installed, and whomever tried to fix it did a very second-tier job. I brought this guitar back from the dead. Because I had to plug the Kahler hole, I decided to make a Les Paul that look like the one played by my idol, Jeff Beck. While the guitar is not "ox-blood" brown, I believe it looks a great deal like the Les Paul on "Blow By Blow" and "Wired." Oh by the way…it sounds great.

Here is a photo of the actual "oxblood" Les Paul. Note the position of the bridge humbucker. I believe this is because the front of the pickup cavity is actually the front of the original P-90 cavity. Note how the pickguard doesn't line up with the pickup ring. We chose not to go this route!