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Source: Gibson SG: the story of the Les Paul's double-cut successor · Guitar Story

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Gibson SG: the story of the Les Paul's double-cut successor

Guitar World. Graded secondary. Open the original.

Not archived. Via summarising fetch, not verified verbatim: official announcement of the first two new double-cut models, Les Paul Standard and Custom, came in 1961; Les Paul name dropped toward end of 1963. Added 2026-10-15 by llm:claude-sonnet-5-5.

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Fact	Years	Records	Passage
Gibson SG (Les Paul double-cut)^[1]	introduced 1961	Gibson	No passage captured

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Gibson SG: the story of the Les Paul's double-cut successorgraded secondary

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