“I burned my leg real bad once back in the ‘70s, man. A smoke bomb ignited too early inside the cavity of the guitar”: Ace Frehley’s ‘Smoker’ Les Pauls were spectacular but dangerous – now one from his final Kiss tour heads to auction

Ace Frehley's 1999/2000 Gibson Les Paul 'Smoker' is up for auction and has a sunburst finish, is routed for three humbuckers, but has been modified to emit smoke from the neck pickup cavity .

The custom Les Paul that the late Ace Frehley played on his last-ever tour with Kiss is headed to auction, and when we say “custom” we mean this is one of the Spaceman’s electric guitars that modded with an onboard smoke machine.

Forget coil-taps, top-wrapping the strings, swapping out the tuners… Adding a Floyd Rose tremolo! Frehley’s preferences for the Les Paul leaned were altogether more spectacular.