1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior Sunburst Single Cut jr.

This absolutely beautiful all original 1956 sunburst Les Paul Junior is something else...

No repairs, no replaced stud hole bushings, no post lean repairs etc. It simply is an amazing example without any breaks or repairs! The action is nice and low with room to spare and the sound is... well... It's a little lion, roaring like the king of the jungle!!

It has the original Dog Ear P90 Pickup that has one pole piece damaged but it doesn't effect the sound, short seam lightweight wraparound bridge, studs, pots, bumble bee capacitor, knobs, pointers, original nitro finish with no touchups or oversprays etc. No cracks, no breaks. This axe is in very nice original shape. The tuners have been replaced for a nice set of aged repro klusons but the originals are in the case. The neck is a chunky handful as these are in the mid-late 50's but it plays ever so easy and doesnt feel fat at all. It is an extremely lively and resonant guitar with wide array of sounds that weighs 3.6Kg. And oh yes, the guitar shows weather checking and playwear front and back like there's no tomorrow! Comes in a super cool Bees In A Jar vintage style case. 

Introduced in 1954, the "budget" Les Paul Junior was designed for and aimed at beginners. It did not pretend to be anything other than a cheaper guitar. The outline shape of its body was the same as the gold-top and Custom, but the most obvious difference to its Les Paul partners was a flat-top solid mahogany body. It had a single P90 pickup, governed by a volume and tone control, and there were simple dot-shaped position markers along the unbound rosewood fingerboard. It was finished in Gibson's traditional two-colour brown-to-yellow sunburst, and had the wrap-over bar-shape bridge/tailpiece like the one used on the latest goldtop. The September 1954 pricelist showed the Les Paul Custom at $325 and the Les Paul Junior at $99.50. The gold-top meanwhile had sneaked up to $225" (Tony Bacon, 50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul, p. 25).

"At the time they were intended for guitar-teaching schools, but they have now become revered for their direct rock'n'roll spirit" (Tony Bacon, 50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul, p. 23). So successful was this model, that an astonishing 9,750 guitars were shipped from the factory during its production run between 1954 and the end of 1957.