“It features a smaller, parlour-sized body that is reminiscent of a scaled-down SJ-200 in overall shape”: Gibson has just unveiled a new Les Paul like no other

On the left, a Gibson Les Paul Standard Double Cut, solid-bodied, in Vintage Cherry Sunburst, it looks like the archetypical singlecut. On the right, the new Les Paul Parlor, a guitar that applies the LP aesthetic to a small-bodied acoustic.

A new Les Paul is always big news in the world of electric guitar but not today. Gibson has flipped the script on its most famous model by unveiling an all-new take on the iconic single-cut that reimagines it as a parlour-sized acoustic guitar.

Released a day after the late, great Les Paul’s birthday, the Les Paul Parlor Acoustic is available in Vintage Sunburst and Vintage Cherry Burst and looks… Well, just look at it in the picture at the top of the page, side-by-side with a Les Paul Standard Double Trouble. It is a Les Paul. But it’s acoustic.