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Introducing The Les Paul Push-Tone: Gibson’s Guitar Of The Month For May Cary May 1st

Gibson-Les-Paul-Push-ToneIn case you haven’t seen it, Gibson’s kicking off May with the introduction of the new ––a uniquely versatile instrument in that you can literally push the pickups out of the back of the guitar, unclip the wires, and swap in a completely different set of pickups, apparently in minutes.

While this isn’t all that new of an idea (Ampeg’s model began offering something similar nearly 40 years ago,) it’s certainly the first time you’ve been able to quickly swap the pickups in an LP… the Push-tone ships with both a pair of BurstBucker Pros, and a pair of single-coil P-94s (basically humbucker-sized P-90s.)

You can use the pickups in matched sets, or literally mix n’ match for your favorites combination of tones.

Other unique features include a AAA maple top with matching maple trapezoid fretboard inlays (really nice touch, here,) a Tone Pro bridge and tailpiece, locking Grover tuners, 24k Gold potentiometers (designed by Gibson, and produced by Bourns,) and a newly designed Neutrik output jack.

The Push Tone will also sport a mahogany body, mahogany neck w/’50s rounded profile (24-3/4“ scale length,)  ebony fretboard with 22 frets, amber top hat knobs, nickel hardware, dual volume and tone knobs, and traditional 3-way pickup switching.

The guitar is listing for a whopping $4,449.00… ouch!



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5 Responses to “Introducing The Les Paul Push-Tone: Gibson’s Guitar Of The Month For May”

  1. tremspeed:

    once in a blue moon you’ll see one of Gibson’s pickup demonstration LPs up on ebay. they look more bare bones than the push tone, and have a weird assortment of hardware, i.e. gold tuners but nickel bridge, perhaps. they come with just about every type of pickup available from gibson- at least a dozen or so- regular HB, mini HB, p-94, p-90, etc all mounted on wood blocks that slide into place. haven’t seen one in a long time, though.

  2. VintageP:

    Never knew anything like this existed 40 years ago much less today. I need to visit my local store and take a look at one of these.

  3. Stratoblogster:

    “Push-Tone, meet the Push-Tone, it’s a modern stone-age technology…”

    Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

  4. Tom L:

    $4500 for the right to manually swap out pickups? No thanks.

  5. Jesse:

    Cool idea. Not worth the dough. Hopefully we see more guitar companies doing the same thing to create some healthy competition and better prices.

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