Designed in the image of the original Les Paul Standard, the LPM is made from a solid mahogany back featuring traditional weight relief for a lighter strapped-on feel, and a carved maple top. It has a glued-in maple neck with a rounded ’50s profile, and a rosewood fingerboard with 22 cryogenically treated frets for long life, along with traditional trapezoid inlays and a commemorative 120th Anniversary inlay at the 12th fret.

The guitar carries a pair of Gibson’s new ’61 Zebra humbucking pickups in the neck and bridge positions. These pickups are built with the power to rock, excelling in heavy crunch and wailing lead tones, yet they clean up beautifully for mellower moments, adapting themselves to your every need. They’re wired through the traditional complement of independent volume and tone controls, and a three-way selector switch.

The heart of the LPM is its factory-installed Min-ETune tuning system, which automatically retunes your guitar on demand in seconds, or calls up any one of 12 factory or 6 user preset tunings at a simple strum of the strings. A satin chrome Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece anchor it all down for outstanding resonance and sustain, while enlarged strap buttons (new for 2014) keep your guitar secure throughout the set. New Supreme Grip speed knobs provide optimum on-the-fly control. Following the stripped-down ethos of the LPM, the guitar carries no pickguard.

The LPM comes protected in a Gibson gig bag that includes a truss-rod wrench and owner’s manual.