Logo Silkscreen Placement

[Tommy Tourbus]

I just noticed that on newer Historics they've scooted the 'Les Paul Model' logo forward towards the Gibson logo by about a cm. Not sure when this started but any idea why? I know the placement on actual 50's LP's could be all over the place, so there's really no hard 'correct' placement, but IMO this new placement doesn't look as good. It looked better where it was, more balanced, and that also seemed to be the most common spot on the real vintage 50's guitars, from what I can tell at least. Am I wrong?

 

[Tollywood]

Placing the Les Paul logo closer to the Gibson logo makes it easy to differentiate between a historic reissue and a regular Les Paul, even at a quick glance.

 

[Tommy Tourbus]

Placing the Les Paul logo closer to the Gibson logo makes it easy to differentiate between a historic reissue and a regular Les Paul, even at a quick glance.

That's not the reason why they're doing it is it?? LOL

 

[Tollywood]

That's not the reason why they're doing it is it?? LOL

Haha, I doubt it.

 

[Tommy Tourbus]

Something interesting...looks like the Murphy Lab versions have the logo in the right spot, at least the ones where it's visible/not rubbed off. So for some odd reason they made the conscience decision to do this just to the regular Historics

 

[Tommy Tourbus]

Something interesting...looks like the Murphy Lab versions have the logo in the right spot, at least the ones where it's visible/not rubbed off. So for some odd reason they made the conscience decision to do this just to the regular Historics

 

[El Gringo]

I think this started in 2019 ?

 

[Tommy Tourbus]

I think this started in 2019 ?

Yeah it appears so. Part of the 2019 changes

 

[matkoehler]

Something interesting...looks like the Murphy Lab versions have the logo in the right spot, at least the ones where it's visible/not rubbed off. So for some odd reason they made the conscience decision to do this just to the regular Historics

This is incorrect. Same fixture and same person doing the LP silkscreening. Yes the new location became standard in 2019. See vintage (first photo) versus current (second photo). Vintage examples are indeed all over the place. This was the placement that we thought was the best "median" choice.

 

[Tommy Tourbus]

This is incorrect. Same fixture and same person doing the LP silkscreening. Yes the new location became standard in 2019. See vintage (first photo) versus current (second photo). Vintage examples are indeed all over the place. This was the placement that we thought was the best "median" choice.

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I like the placement on the pre-2019's myself. I have a 2018 and it looks great, very balanced. Here's a pic of another current R9, a 2025, from a different angle:

And I've seen worse than this. I was in Long n Mquade in Vanouver BC last week and saw some that were even further forward