[lp59aholicDon]

Originally Posted by Liam

I've often wondered, now that Historic Les Pauls have been with us for so long, when various features appeared and disappeared. I'm kind of hoping to get a list together of years of introduction/disappearance of various features. Feel free to add to the list - and even more so to put a date next to an item. If it gets good enough it might get "sticky", but if it's too much like trainspotting let it drop to the bottom and we can forget I posted it. Feel free to correct dates if you have better info

Sunbursts.

Heritage Les Paul introduced 1980
Les Paul '59 reissue introduced 1985
Les Paul '60 reissue introduced 1992
Les Paul '58 reissue introduced ??
Les Paul '57 reissue introduced 1985
Les Paul '56 reissue introduced 1989
Les Paul '52 reissue introduced ??
Nitro cellulose finish
Nickel hardware
Big headstock
Holly veneer headstock
Long tenon body
Classic 57 pickups
Burstbuckers
Bumblebee caps
CTS pots
Authentic neck profiles
Brazilian rosewood fingerboards available ?-2003?
Tops get ridiculously "curly"
Plain tops available
VOS

We could do the same for:

Junior/Special
Custom

The history of all these is much bigger than the original guitars, I'd love to put some dates to it all.

Liam

Laim 59 Re issues in the Norlin era started as early as 83, maybe 82, with Leo's and Guitar Trader Re Issues and Jimmy Wallace,Have yet to see a 52 Re issue but 54's sometime in the late 90s
Long Tenon necks and Holly vaneer heastocks were part of 50s original Les Pauls, as was nitrocell,