Les Paul Personal................

[Hörnisse]

A beautiful collection.

[hieronymous]

Love that collection, love the shot of all three and the amp!

What do they call the inlays on the headstock of your new one (the Personal)? That's one of the things I like about the Triumph. Shallow I know! 

[Grog]

What do they call the inlays on the headstock of your new one (the Personal)?

I've always call it a Split Diamond inlay.................

[Granny Gremlin]

Yeah, (split) diamond is what I here folkks call that.

Now all you need is one of them Gibson Lab Series amp heads.

[hieronymous]

Now I'm singing "Black Diamond" by Kiss in my head but singing "oooh-oooh - - - Split Diamond!"

[Highlander]

Is that a bit like Lemmy singing the Eight of Spades, which is what he did for a while...?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Now all you need is one of them Gibson Lab Series amp heads.

The Gibson Lab series: Gibson's solid state copies of Fender tube amps that sounded better than their contemporary Fender tube amps.

[Highlander]

They rarely appear do they...?

[Granny Gremlin]

The Gibson Lab series: Gibson's solid state copies of Fender tube amps that sounded better than their contemporary Fender tube amps.

Unless I am getting mixed up (highly possible) one of them was all tube OEMed by Garnet (basically a Sessionman).

... some quick googling leads me to believe I am half right, Garnet did OEM the Lab Series 2 line (vs Moog for the original Lab Series) but they were solid state as you say (Garnet switched to making solid state amps in the 80s, and those are rather undesirable for the most part).  There was an all tube (rectifier excepted) Gibson by Garnet amp, because I saw one once, but I forget what model it was.

And when I said Lab Series in that previous post, what I actually meant was LP1+LP2  (LoZ amp for the LP Personal/Pro/Recording/bass).

Total brain fail all around.

[nofi]

 

[Grog]

That is the LP-1 + LP-2 = LP-12 amp, AKA "The Monster"  

http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/catalogues/1970_Les_Paul_index.php

[ilan]

Why did Gibson alter the original LP body shape for these models?

[Grog]

From the Les Paul Book, Tony Bacon & Paul Day............ "It seems that CMI boss Maurice Berlin said he wanted these proposed models to be about half-an-inch bigger around the body outline, so that they would be more visible on stage and TV screen. Despite the suitability of the guitars' electronics to recording studios, and the fact that the extra weight would mean a very heavy guitar, this larger size was adopted for the production versions of the Personal and Professional models."

From Gibson Guitars, 100 years of an American icon, Walter Carter.......... "Stan Rendell felt that it should be a little different than the high-impedance Les Paul models, so the body was made a little larger. It was more like The Log and played like a hog. Lester said, 'I'm going up to the Mayo Clinic and I'm going to pick out a room and call it the Les Paul Room for people who come in with back pains. But they sustain, I'll tell you that.'"

[ilan]

Thanks, I never knew that.

As it turns out now, there is a way to supersize an LP body without messing up the classic shape...

Anyway, cool and unique collection, it must have felt great to complete the set. Or are you looking for the flat-top acoustic?

[Granny Gremlin]

The LP Jumbo be a rare, rare bird.  I never played one, but lemme tell you, those low Z pups sounds awesome in an acoustic (had one; tried it).