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An Exceptional January 1969 Les Paul Standard GoldTop With P90s.

This January 1969 Les Paul Standard weighs 9.40 lbs. and has very fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid onepiece mahogany body with single cream binding and maple top with gold finish. Onepiece mahogany neck with a huge profile, the early long tenon neck joint but with the wider headstock. Rosewood fretboard with 22 original jumbo frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and gold silkscreened "Les Paul Model." Individual Kluson Deluxe 'doubleline' tuners with doublering Keystone plastic buttons and "D169400 / Patent No." stamped inside. Serial number "540878" stamped into the back of the headstock. Singlelayer black plastic trussrod cover with two screws. Two P90 pickups with really hot outputs of 7.74k and 8.11k. Cream plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus threeway selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic bellshaped knobs with metal tops. Gibson TuneOMatic retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. The pots are stamped: "137 6850" (CTS last week of December 1968) and the two capacitors are the black cylindrical Sprague "Black Beauty" type. This is one of the earliest 68/69 GoldTops with a typical '59 Les Paul neck that is to die for! There are two small surface marks on the top just to the trebleside of the lower strappin and a few small 'dings'/marks on the edges. Overall this wonderful fortytwo year old Les Paul Standard is in exceptionally fine condition (9.00) condition. Complete with the original Gibson 22 page hangtag booklet. Housed in the original Gibson threelatch black rectangular (rounded corners) hardshell case with pale orange plush lining (9.00).