Today s Gibson Les Paul Junior electric guitar captures many of the same details and intensity as the original, including a 24 scale length mahogany neck that meets the body at the 16th fret, a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard (ebony on the Satin white finish model), Gibson s traditional round neck profile, a wraparound bridge/tailpiece, and a single Gibson P-90 pickup that faithfully delivers all the power and punch expected from their singlecoil pickup. Other added features include all chrome hardware, acrylic dot inlays, Gibson s silk-screened logo on the headstock, and a corian pre-radiused nut. The Les Paul Junior comes with a plush Gibson gig bag.

As the competition to develop and market affordable and professionally built solid body electric guitars was heating up in the mid-1950s, Gibson branched out into new directions that would eventually yield a wide variety of new and innovative Gibson products at various price points. Among those new products was the Les Paul Junior single cutaway model, which quickly became Gibson’s best-selling model and the instrument of choice for such legends as Leslie West, Steve Marriott, Keith Richards, Mick Ralphs, Mick Jones and Paul Westerberg.