He designed a switching system for coil splitting, series/parallel, and phase-reverse options for both pickups, and employed a skilled electronics technician to devise a working schematic and make his sonic vision a reality. To "explore the full range of what the two humbuckers have to offer". Page played this Les Paul frequently through his days with Led Zeppelin, and in the early '80s decided to make it an even more versatile instrument. It had a strong, beautiful sunburst finish with a red element that had faded to a dusky amber-brown, along with a clear serial number dating it to 1959. The neck is certainly slim but not to such extremes as the now-ultra-slim neck on "Number One". Jimmy did have some modifications done to the neck shape so that it would more nearly match the feel of his "Number One". "Number Two" was essentailly all original when he aquired it. This was several years after having acquired his other legendary Les Paul - "Number One", a '59 'Burst with shaved-down neck profile and no serial number - from Joe Walsh.
The 1959 Les Paul that has come to be known as "Number Two" was purchased by Page in 1973 after trying for some time to acquire an exceptional second Les Paul. Produced in strictly limited numbers, with two levels of aging, this guitar captures the look, feel, sound, and versatility of one of the greatest artist-owned Les Pauls of all time, and it is likely to disappear from authorized Gibson dealers in record time. That's exactly what the legendary LED ZEPPELIN guitarist, perhaps the world's most iconic Les Paul player, did with his own '59 Les Paul Standard, and now - thanks to the extreme efforts of Gibson's Custom Shop and the intimate cooperation of Jimmy Page himself - the artist's hallowed "Number Two" Les Paul is available to mere mortals, in the form of the Custom Shop Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul.
Obtaining a pristine and exemplary '59 'Burst and modifying it for heightened performance and vastly expanded tonal options? Unheard of… unless, of course, you're JIMMY PAGE. Every musician knows that late '50s Sunburst Les Paul Standards are hard enough to come by as it is.
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