The Les Paul Custom made its debut in 1954 after the initial success of the Les Paul Goldtop.With its gold appointments, fully bound body, neck and headstock and pearloid inlays, Epiphone thinks you'll agree that the Epiphone Les Paul Custom is "dressed to kill". Epiphone's LP Custom follows that tradition by using a solid, carved mahogany body which gives the guitar a slightly mellow tone. Like the originals, the Les Paul Custom is fitted with a solid mahogany neck and hand-fitted with a glued-in joint for optimum neck-to-body contact which allows the neck and body to resonate almost like one continuous piece of wood. At the heart of the Les Paul Custom is a pair of Epiphone Alnico Classic humbucker pickups. Patterned after Gibson '57 Classics, these pickups combine Alnico-V magnets with enamel wire to give you a tone that is both warm and subtle with a full and even response that doesn't hold back when you need that classic humbucker crunch!