Gibson Les Paul 12 String vs Gibson Les Paul 1958
The Gibson Les Paul 12 String and the Gibson Les Paul 1958 are both electric guitars sharing full. The Gibson Les Paul 12 String leans transparent and sustaining. The Gibson Les Paul 1958 leans dynamic. Current prices: $5250 vs $5199.
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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.53% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- full
Gibson Les Paul 12 String
Gibson · electric guitar
Gibson Les Paul 1958
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5250via Reverb
$5199via Reverb
Warren Haynes plays a Gibson Les Paul 12-string, one of only two the company built for him around 1990 after Gibson Custom Shop head Rick Gembar saw him perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and offered to build the instrument. Gibson has since kept a Les Paul 12-string in its catalog partly because of Haynes's association with the model, an unusual pairing since 12-string necks are far more commonly found on acoustic and semi-hollow bodies than on a solid Les Paul. Eric Clapton reportedly saw Haynes play it and remarked he hadn't seen a guitar like it since recording Layla, tying the instrument to the tradition of doubled-string electric guitar work Clapton, Duane Allman, and other blues-rock players from that era helped popularize.
This entry covers a 1958 Gibson Les Paul with no specific documented owner attached, from the year widely considered the start of the Les Paul Standard's most celebrated production run, when Gibson introduced the cherry sunburst finish that would define the model's most collectible era through 1960. Built with a mahogany body, a carved maple top, and a pair of PAF humbuckers, hand-wound without the later consistency of automated coil winders, guitars from 1958 carry slight variation from example to example in output and tone that collectors have spent decades cataloguing and comparing, a big part of why originals from this specific three-year run command such extraordinary collector prices today.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Hard Rock
- Rock
- Blues
- transparent
- sustaining
- dynamic