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The Les Paul model electric guitar is a legend. It is the second most popular and best-known shaped guitar in the world, second only to the shape of the Fender Stratocaster.

The Les Paul guitar was by Ted McCarty, president of Gibson guitars in the early 1950s, was developed with contributions (depending on which side to hear the story) by Les Paul, a popular jazz guitarist at the time.

The Les Paul guitar has to be further done, pretty much unchanged from the original Eversince. Now that is a winner of the design!

Les Paul guitars are also used by Gibson’s “budget” brand Epiphone, look alike, but are made with cheaper materials, mass and Gibson’s Epiphone factory in Qingdao, China produced. Nothing wrong with Epiphone guitars for the price, but they are not Gibsons, which are 100% Made in USA.

given in 2008, per information to me, holding left-handed Gibson makes guitars. Period. Citing “lack of demand” as the reason, it seems, they just canned the whole side of the facility including the option Custom Shop.

That was a good slap in the face left-handed guitarist in the world, and there are still many left-handed players in the world today, although not nearly as many right-handed guitar players, there is now a bit of a “void” created for left-handed guitarists who love Les Paul guitar style.

Left-handed guitar players tend to keep the guitars they have to sell rather than all over the place, how to give with right-handed guitars all the time (more people, until the learning takes place as stay with her to see, there are always take tons of cheap guitars on eBay and elsewhere.) The point is this: The second-hand market is not as lucrative for left-handed guitarist, and now that Gibson has stopped, left handed guitars are those faithful with their Les Pauls probably to keep hold of them do not sell!

So what do you do if you want a new Les Paul guitar style these days?

How Stratocaster and Telecaster, Les Pauls and SGs have been many, many, many copies guitar brands. Some have become well known for this, and some of them are very popular guitar brands in their own right for her.

Here is where you, if you have a left-handed Les Paul want to go today.

First, to wave, Gibson, said: “Thanks for the memories. They lost me as a customer of your own making.”

TOKAI. This is a Japanese brand, which since the 1960s. She started making knock-offs gathered by Fender and Gibson, and over the years as a good reputation for quality and affordability, that in recent years, Gibson had the wind (or at last taken note of) the fact that a lot of people were opting for the Tokai versions instead of their guitars. Apparently Gibson woke up, turned evil and tried to bring to justice Tokai received for “copyright infringement” and somewhere in all that she went and hastily their headstock design patented new (patents only last 25 years) so they could have something Tokai to ! put How’s that for bad sportsmanship! By what people have told me is Tokai’s not allowed to be sold in the U.S. any more (home of Gibson.)

Nevertheless, Tokai’s “Love Rock” guitars are made incredibly good and incredibly sounding Les Paul style guitars, easily accessible in Europe, Asia and New Zealand (but for some reason, not Australia, perhaps not surprisingly, considering, as behind the times Australia compared to Europe, Asia and New Zealand?)

I recommend everyone thoroughly left-handed guitarist Les Paul to a left handed guitar style from Tokai to consider the first alternative. And no, I am in no way affiliated with, or on the payroll of the Tokai guitars. Tokai Love Rock guitars are playing awesome, and some say are better than Gibson Les Paul’s original!

Greg Bennett. For a budget Les Paul that looks pretty damn cool, the “Avion” series guitars are a mighty handsome Les Paul guitar style. Greg Bennet sees the left handed model. Unfortunately boring old sunburst, but even in this color, it’s a damn sexy guitar, a little different from Gibson (the cut is a bit sharp), but still looking pretty Les Paul-ish! With Avion you only need to swap out out Seymour Duncan pickups for some, DiMarzio or EMG or Wilkinsons (on a small budget) and maybe replace the tuner in order to achieve this guitar to a full pro level.

Stock standard, they are also under $ 500!

Hamer. Not cheap, but Hamer’s “Monaco Elite” model is available in left hand and looks pretty much like a Les Paul. Retail for about $ 3500, with Seymour Duncan has as standard. So you know that it will be is a sweet sounding guitar! Seems to be only sunburst, so it seems.

STAGG. really are a European company, from Belgium. They have since branched out into other instruments other than guitar, such as pianos, percussion and wind instruments. Many people think the Stagg as knock-offs, because they are like almost all other European or Asian guitar brand whose products are Gibson and Fender copies. Your Les Paul-model (L320LH) is hell about to clone a Les Paul. But oh no! They are a different brand that makes a dirt sunburst color! Fortunately, they also have the LH in which black too. Uber-boring. But at least they have something left-handed! They are fairly cheap, also around 300 USD.

GORDON SMITH guitars. This is a UK company which supposedly in the United Kingdom, “which Gibson is in the U.S..” They have been going since 1979 and is not responsible for extra left-handed guitars. Their “Gypsy” and “Graduate” series guitars Les Paul guitars are very similar and are just around the USD 1000 – 1500 Mark. I’ve heard that the wait can take a while. Not sure if this is true or not. It’s best to ask!

These are just a few large companies, the guitar single cut guitars like the famous Les Paul do form.

There are many, many other guitar brands that make this type of guitar, and this article should not be on one another to lean on one brand. Using the budget as a guideline opens the door to many, many other possibilities.

There are many excellent boutique guitar maker in Australia, Europe and the U.S. and many mass-producing factories in China, Korea and more recently Indonesia and India. Although generally the Asian factories are not equipped to make left-handed guitars, there is always the possibility that some factory somewhere, perhaps to make something like a Les Paul at an Asian brand. And with technology and know-how, as it is today, they can even make it as good as, if not better than other “known” brands in the Western world. Today, not 10, 5 or even 2 years! Wake up and get in the present, if you still think “Made in China” means something bad.

In any case, here are some tips to find that new and now elusive Les Paul guitar style today, as Gibson does not handed guitar left for us.

Why does the mouth, the hand that feeds bites?

If you want a high quality affrodable left-handed guitar, not a Les Paul or a Stratocaster / Telecaster, then you should get a GASKELL guitar. Gaskell is the only guitar in the world, which is 100% for production and custom brnad only left hand guitars.