Familiarize and Own a Les Paul Left Handed Guitar

When you think or talk about electric guitars, the Les Paul left hand guitar usually comes to mind right away. The Les Paul guitar lefty body style is the most recognized one in the music industry. It is a versatile and widely used guitar with many configurations and models to select from. Les Paul left hand guitars are a thing of beauty.

The Les Paul is named after the man who invented the electric guitar in 1941. That first guitar was called “the log” and was extremely crude, but was the first amplified guitar anywhere.  Eleven years later, in 1952, the Gibson Guitar company began building the Les Paul guitar and music was changed forever.

When Mr. Paul designed that first guitar, he was only 13 years old. By the following year, 1929, he was playing a working model of the electric guitar. He continued working on the design for the next few years until Gibson picked it up and began production in 1952.

Over the years, many guitar manufacturers have produced guitars in the Les Paul body style. Of course, there has always been a need for quality left hand guitars and so the Les Paul left hand guitar was a natural progression. Guitar lefty players now had a guitar available to them that sounded good, looked good and had great stage presence.

The Les Paul left hand guitar is one of many that are offered at the site, but are extremely popular. This is primarily due to the versatility of the Les Paul left hand guitar. The LP is used in a wide variety of genres including country, rock, metal, blues and jazz. The controls on the Les Paul give the musician an unbelievable range of control over the tone of the instrument.

Les Paul left guitars are made in all types of material like mahogany, maple or basswood. There are bolt on neck types and neck-through designs as well. Fret boards can be maple, mahogany, rosewood or any of a number of other materials.

Les Paul left hand guitars can be found with two or three pickups. Most use dual coil humbuckers, but some have been built with other combinations. A tremolo bar is another possibility that can be added for further versatility, especially to the guitar lefty players out there.

The Les Paul left guitar will also have a three position pick up selector on the top. There are two sets of volume/tone controls that operate the neck and bridge pickups. If there is a center pick up, it is wired in series with the neck pickup and runs hot.

Among guitar lefty players, the Les Paul left hand guitar is a dream come true. Whatever style of music you play, whether  professional or just playing leisurely the Les Paul is the right one for you.