In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...

"I came up with the idea of putting a solid block of maple in an acoustic model,” said Ted McCarty, company president and pioneer of guitar design during Gibson´s ‘golden period´ of the 1950s. “It ...