![]() ![]() Less obviously, the lower waist is slightly less rounded. The shape is clearly close, but compare it with an original and you’ll quickly note the thinner treble horn and the slightly rounded top shoulder, which, on the back, flows into the cutaway, including the binding, and leaves the heel platform slightly thinner. The top carve is very nicely dished and a couple of millimetres thicker than our Gibson reference at 62mm from top to back. The all-black PBB, therefore, does look extremely classy (a few marks on the fingerboard binding in front of the neck pickup excepted). The cream edge binding with its inner black striped purfling surrounds both the top and back edges, Les Paul Customstyle. Neither guitar bears any specific ‘Country Of Origin’ mark and Paul Smith simply states “we use production facilities in both China and Vietnam”.įirst impressions are of a pair of slightly on the heavy side single-cuts that are extremely well finished, highly glossed and for the most part very well detailed. They have the wrong shape headstock complete with the wrong logo, the ‘wrong’ outline, and are made in Asia, not the USA. The other new V100 model we have on review, the PBB, appears to take the first version of the Les Paul Custom circa 1954 to ’57 as its inspiration. You’re not going to confuse this with a Gibson, are you? The top nuts on both V100s are Graph Tech NuBone XB, which aims to “increase volume and enhance the low-end harmonics of your instrument” (Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis) ![]()
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