Erlewine Lazer vs Gibson Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul
The Erlewine Lazer and the Gibson Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul are both electric guitars. The Erlewine Lazer leans bright and tight.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.42% — somewhat different
Erlewine Lazer
Erlewine · electric guitar
Gibson Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.The Erlewine Lazer is a hand-built custom electric guitar featuring headless, neck-through-body construction, designed for exceptional tuning stability and comfortable portability. The Lazer weighs only 5.5 pounds and employs Mark Erlewine's patented Wineomatic headless tuning system. The 25.5 inch scale with 24 frets and rosewood fingerboard accommodate a Classic 59 style bridge humbucker with push-pull coil-tap alongside an alnico single-coil neck pickup. Wood options include mahogany, 160-year-old black walnut, and korina. According to Johnny Winter, the Lazer delivers the tonal character of a Stratocaster (trebly, cutting highs) with the playing comfort and feel of a Gibson.
Jimmy Page's Number Two Les Paul is the extensively modified backup to his famous sunburst Number One, rewired with push-pull pots enabling coil-tapping, out-of-phase, and series-parallel pickup switching options that go far beyond a stock Les Paul's simple two-humbucker wiring. Page used it as a working alternative throughout Led Zeppelin's touring years, relying on its expanded switching to access tonal variations his main guitar couldn't produce on its own, particularly useful live where swapping guitars for a different tone wasn't always practical. As a heavily modified, road-tested instrument rather than a stock example, it represents the more experimental, tinkering side of Page's relationship with his gear compared to the more visually iconic but electronically simpler Number One.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- world music
- jazz
- punk rock
- Experimental
- Alternative Rock
- Electronic
- bright
- tight
- dynamic
- transparent
- sustaining