Old Music News of article 248526 for 2006-08-15

U.S. guitar makers rock Japan market

AP - The hand-aged Gibson Les Paul Special is a replica of the 1960 original, but an American master craftsman made it exactly the way the guitar would look today, complete with aging cracked paint and tiny dents from scuffs and scratches.

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