Overview
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Product:
- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1980 to 1982
The LES PAUL HERITAGE SERIES STANDARD 80 was made between 1980 and 1982. This was an early attempt by Gibson to re-create a Les Paul from their golden age of the late 1950s.
Specifications (28)
Body
Body material | mahogany body |
Body shape features | carved top, single cutaway |
Body style | Les Paul-style body |
Body top material | flamed maple body top |
Pickguard shape | raised pickguard |
Hardware
Bridge | tune-o-matic bridge |
Hardware color | nickel hardware |
Tailpiece | stop tailpiece |
Tuners | Grover tuners |
Fretboard
Fingerboard inlay material | mother of pearl fingerboard inlay material |
Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
Fingerboard position markers | trapezoid fingerboard position markers |
General
Finish colors | ebony finish, honey finish, red finish |
Finish effects | sunburst finish |
Made in | USA |
Number of strings | 6 strings |
Scale length | 24.75 inches scale-length |
Neck
Headstock inlays or logos | pearl headstock inlay/logo |
Neck joint | set neck |
Neck material | mahogany neck |
Number of frets | 22 fret |
Peghead (headstock) | black face headstock |
Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Controls
Pickup selector controls | 3-way selector switch |
Tone controls | 2 tone controls |
Volume controls | 2 volume controls |
Electronics
Pickups brand and model | Gibson Tim Shaw PAF pickup(s) |
Pickups configuration | 2 humbucker pickups |
Prices (15)
Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
1985 | $1000 | new | ||
1985 | $700 | new | ||
1980 | $750.00 | new | DW | |
2015 | $3200 | excellent | ||
1981 | $800.00 | new | J.A.M. | Deep Cherry sunburst. Heavy but beautiful flame top. Great playing and sounding. Still in excellent condition after 36 years; played only at home and has spent 99.99% of it's life in the case. |
1980 | kr16000 | good | Niels | |
1992 | kr15000 | good | Alvin | Previous owner installed a Bigsby vibrato-system. Patent No. D-169120 |
1992 | $1000 | worn | ||
1990 | $1700 | excellent | peter | Has not not been played since 1990. Excellent condition still in the original case with the original owners manual |
1980 | £900 | excellent | ||
2018 | $4000 | good | S/N 82302522 - 3440. Made Nashville Tennessee August 18th 1982. | |
1980 | £1200 | new | ||
2017 | $1200 | worn | ||
2018 | $3600 | excellent | ||
1998 | £2400 | good | Adrian | An awesome example. Honey sunburst with amazingly deep flamed top. Purchased from the original owner who hand picked it from the Gibson production line. Very under valued in my opinion. |
Reviews (2)
GIBSON LES PAUL HERITAGE SERIES STANDARD 80 reviewed by navydan51
navydan51
I have wanted a Gibson Les Paul Series Standard-80 for years. Finally Found one in the UK that met my wanted specifications, Tobacco. Was shipped to me in the US, arrived with no issues. I could not put it down, sound was fantastic.. Had a few issues corrected and had an appraisal done. Was appraised at $6,500.00, October 2022. I am sure the worth with continue to rise with age. Now I want another. Search begins..
GIBSON LES PAUL HERITAGE SERIES STANDARD 80 reviewed by Retired Employee
Retired Employee
I am an Electrical Engineer by Degree and have some experience in this field. In my opinion the best sounding LP ever made is the Heritage 80 Series guitars that have the Ink Stamped 137/138 #s of the 1980 Shaw Pickups specifically identified with those numbers 137 and `138 Ink Stamped onto the back of the Humbuckers (Neck and Bridge respectively). No other ... and I mean NO OTHER - Tim Shaw Ink Stamped Pickups that you can compare will generate the clear raw sound that the 137/138 Ink stamped ones do... period !!! I compared many of the Shaw Vintage Pickups in a Lab and it's always the 137/138's that come out on top every time. And there is a reason ! For that particular version I understand they did two experiments back then with the magnets on AL-V vs. AL-II Poll charging and ended up creating a very raw sound that many` at the time said and still say today is far far superior to the coveted 1959 LP sounds. One of the primary changes has already been discovered and it's talked about in a very few limited forums but the other experimental change has not yet been disclosed. One retired sound tech put it best when stating that they decided to keep it a secret because they didn't want to see it copied or mass produced, Only a handful of people knew what they did to those 137/138 pickups and Shaw isn't talking now that he's the President of Fender. I guess disclosing the secret would have destroyed what beautiful uniqueness they created. I also read once that at one time a Sound Tech did a Blind sound test allowing people to play both guitars back to back blindfolded "the Master 59 LP and the 137/138 LPHS80" and the results were that sixteen out of the twenty professional rock musicians honestly preferred the 1980 Heritage Standard 80 sound to the coveted 59 LP. You too have to ask yourself - If it truly was supposed to be an exact replicated sound of the reissued 59 LP then why does the 1980 LPHS80 have its Control Pots wired directly to the Pickup Leads instead of the switch leads like the 59 did. The answer is because the LPHS80 tone was over achieved with the final Magnet charge changes for the 1980 production run so much so that it would have been near ridiculous to wire up. So instead, the capacitors had to be hard wired to the Pickup Leads hot wire putting a cap to the over achieving high high tones.... I just wonder when the world will figure this out and the LPHS80 takes its rightful thrown as the king of the LP sound hill instead of the 59..... P.S. I also understand that you can also spot one of the successful experimental Guitars from 1980 by a marking inside and under the back control pots metal cover. The truly awesome sounding LPHS80 Guitars had an ink drawn five pointed star and the number "80" written with an ink pen on the wood inside the Control Pot wiring area - usually accompanied by the Test Engineer or Tim's very own Initials TS (P.S. The handwritten initial letter T looks like a J). I looked inside two of them to date and have seen the Star the 80 and the initials that look like TS and or JS. Pretty wild.