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FIT FOR PURPOSE

In our earlier report of Gibson’s then-2019 Les Pauls in issue 443, a reader complained that we had treated our ’Pauls to a quick bit of TLC. He expected the guitars to be perfect out of the case, especially for price. Our writer, Dave Burrluck, goes commando…

“It’s pretty alien to me to take out a

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