This 12 3/4-inch-wide Sunburst Les Paul DeLuxe weighs 9.20 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Three-piece (mahogany/maple/mahogany) sandwich body, carved maple top, three-piece (mahogany/maple/mahogany) sandwich neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 original jumbo frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and "Les Paul Model" decal. Two layer (black over white) bell shaped truss-rod cover with two screws and "Deluxe" engraved in white. Individual 'two-line' Gibson Deluxe tuners with double-ring Keystone plastic buttons with "D-169400 / patent No." stamped on the underside. Two metal-covered mini-humbucker pickups with cream plastic surrounds and outputs of 6.12k and 6.06k, each with a small black rectangular label lettered in gold "Patent No / 2,737,842". Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch. Gold plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. Tune-O-Matic bridge with retainer and separate stud tailpiece. The pots are dated "137 73 03" (CTS, January 1973). This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with just two small areas of wear, one on the side of the treble horn and the other on the back of the neck behind the ninth fret. There is a miniscule amount of belt buckle scarring (nothing through the finish) on the back. Complete with the original twenty-four page hang tag booklet and the original hang tag warranty. Housed in its original Gibson black hardshell case with purple plush lining (9.25).
