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Les Paul Bodies

Mel

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I was recently reading in the "Les Paul Book" by Bacon and Day ,that sandwich bodies (Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany/Maple) were in production from 1969-1973.I have seen 2 Customs,one from 1976 and the other from 1977 both with sandwhich bodies.Does anyone have a post73 Les Paul with a sandwich body.
 

Ed Rafalko

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I've owned lots of them. They used them up in 1978 or thereabouts.
 

Spose

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I'm about to pick up a 77 Custom(not for me), it has the pancake body.
 

Tonefiend

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I thought they started the pancake in '73 I have seen lots of early '70s with one piece bodies. The book is wrong.
 

daze

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'73 '74 was smack in the middle of the pancake body era - then around '76 we had the maple neck era - I believe all that ended around the very early '80's

DAZE
 

Plankspanker

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I owned a 1978 TobaccoBurst that had 3 pieces of maple on the
Top and the Mahoghany body had a laminate strip in it. It had to be one of the worst sounding Les Pauls I've ever owned. It's somewhere in Guam now, as a result of a trade.
 

Stevedenver

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pancake bods

I have a 72 recording; pancake-
had a 70 custom -pancake-
have a 74 custom pancake
how do you like them flapjacks!
 

The Fet

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Back in the 70's I had a 1977 cherry sunburst Deluxe with a 3 piece maple top 3 piece maple neck and a 1 piece mahogany body. Never really liked that sunburst colour - very brash IMO.

At that time, one thing I liked about that guitar in comparison to my 1979 Standard was that it had the older style binding on the neck (not sure if its was exactly 0.04" as on the R9's etc). This meant that the playing area on the fret board was wider than on the '79 Standard (which had the same wider binding as I often see on new Standards to day).

Does any one know when and why they changed the binding and never changed it back again - as they obviously know there is a difference since they put the older width of binding on the RI necks.

The Fet.
 
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