The Les Paul manual : buying, maintaining, repairing, and customizing your Gibson and Epiphone Les Paul /: buying, maintaining, repairing, and customizing your Gibson and Epiphone Les Paul. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Terry Burrows.
• Authors: Burrows, Terry
• Contents: The late starter : Gibson Les Paul -- Getting to know the Les Paul. History and evolution ; Les Paul timeline ; Les Paul gallery ; Anatomy of a Les Paul ; Inventory of Les Paul pickups ; How your Les Paul works -- Basic care. Tools for the job ; Assessing your Les Paul ; Strings and stringing ; Tuning ; Simple bridge adjustments ; Adjusting the pickup height ; Strap locks ; Cleaning your Les Paul ; Simple electrical cleaning ; Storage and transportation -- Advanced maintenance. Adjusting the neck ; Dressing the frets ; Attending to the nut ; The Tune-O-Matic ; Changing the tuners ; Locking tuners ; Robot tuners ; Fitting a Bigsby ; Cosmetics -- Electrical fixes. Tools and techniques ; Accessing the circuit ; Potentiometers and capacitors ; Standard and vintage wiring ; Replacing the output socket ; Changing potentiometers ; Switch replacement ; Changing capacitors ; Swapping out pickups ; Humbuckers and switches ; Kill switches and killpots ; Jimmy Page 21-tone Les Paul wiring ; The "acoustic" Les Paul ; Adding MIDI to your Les Paul ; Hum control -- Les Paul legends. Jan Akkerman, Duane Allman ; Jef[f] Beck, Mike Bloomfield, Joe Bonamassa ; Eric Clapton, Dave Davies, Al Di Meola ; Peter Frampton, Ace Frehley, Robert Fripp ; Peter Green, Terry Kath, Freddie King ; Paul Kossoff, Tak Matsumoto, John McLaughlin, Gary Moore ; Jimmy Page, Les Paul, Joe Perry ; Keith Richards, Mick Ronson, Sonny Sharrock ; Slash, Hubert Sumlin, Mick Taylor ; Pete Townshend, Zakk Wylde, Neil Young -- Appendices. Talking heads ; Dating your Gibson Les Paul ; Dating your Epiphone Les Paul.
• Publisher Details: Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (211 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 787.87/192; Gibson Les Paul standard guitar; Electric guitar -- Maintenance and repair; Electric guitar; Guitare électrique -- Entretien et réparations; Guitare électrique; electric guitars; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Guitar; Electric guitar; Electric guitar -- Maintenance and repair; Gibson Les Paul standard guitar
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781627888011; 1627888012
• Related ISBNs: 9780760349236
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.