TYPE
Electric Solid Body Solid body guitar
FEATURES
Pine body, mahogany neck
Rosewood fretboard
Self-manufactured pickups
INFORMATION
The first electric guitars from the early 1930s were acoustic instruments with built-in pickups. A recurring problem for many guitarists was the annoying feedback caused by the high volume. Les Paul figured the solution was a solid body guitar that wouldn’t be sensitive to this problem. In 1941 he built an instrument in Epiphone’s workshop, in which a Gibson neck was attached to a piece of pine measuring more than 10 by 10 cm/4 by 4 inches, to which he again attached two self-made pickups. He attached two wings of an acoustic Epiphone guitar to the body, making it look like an ordinary instrument and calling it The Log.