The Les Paul manual
Subtitle: buying, maintaining, repairing, and customizing your Gibson and Epiphone Les Paul
By: Terry Burrows
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780760349236
Subjects: Guitar; Electric guitar; Maintenance and repair; Gibson Les Paul standard guitar; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Buying, maintaining, repairing, and customizing your Gibson and Epiphone Les Paul
Notes: "Glossary": pages 202-203.

Includes web resources and index.
Table of contents: title: The late starter : Gibson Les Paul; title: Getting to know the Les Paul. History and evolution ; Les Paul timeline ; Les Paul gallery ; Anatomy of a Les Paul ; Inventory of Les Paul pickups ; How your Les Paul works; title: Basic care. Tools for the job; title: Assessing your Les Paul; title: Strings and stringing; title: Tuning; title: Simple bridge adjustments; title: Adjusting the pickup height; title: Strap locks; title: Cleaning your Les Paul; title: Simple electrical cleaning; title: Storage and transportation; title: Advanced maintenance. Adjusting the neck; title: Dressing the frets; title: Attending to the nut; title: The Tune-O-Matic; title: Changing the tuners; title: Locking tuners; title: Robot tuners; title: Fitting a Bigsby; title: Cosmetics; title: Electrical fixes. Tools and techniques; title: Accessing the circuit; title: Potentiometers and capacitors; title: Standard and vintage wiring; title: Replacing the output socket; title: Changing potentiometers; title: Switch replacement; title: Changing capacitors; title: Swapping out pickups; title: Humbuckers and switches; title: Kill switches and killpots; title: Jimmy Page 21-tone Les Paul wiring; title: The "acoustic" Les Paul; title: Adding MIDI to your Les Paul; title: Hum control; title: Les Paul legends. Jan Akkerman, Duane Allman; title: Jef[f] Beck, Mike Bloomfield, Joe Bonamassa; title: Eric Clapton, Dave Davies, Al Di Meola; title: Peter Frampton, Ace Frehley, Robert Fripp; title: Peter Green, Terry Kath, Freddie King; title: Paul Kossoff, Tak Matsumoto, John McLaughlin, Gary Moore; title: Jimmy Page, Les Paul, Joe Perry; title: Keith Richards, Mick Ronson, Sonny Sharrock; title: Slash, Hubert Sumlin, Mick Taylor; title: Pete Townshend, Zakk Wylde, Neil Young; title: Appendices. Talking heads; title: Dating your Gibson Les Paul; title: Dating your Epiphone Les Paul.