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Gibson 50s, 60s 70s Les Paul Tributes identification?

musekatcher

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Is there a map or decoder list somewhere for these? They seem to be arbitrary, mixing weight relief and no weight relief, P90's, mini humbuckers, and virtually all other humbuckers, various necks and tuners, etc?

I'm eyeing a "60s Tribute" that has burstbucker 1/2 pickups, and wondering about the relief?
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musekatcher

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Reading thru some LPF searches, I found most of the answer here, from Big Al:

https://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/...bson-Lies-Paul-50-s-Tribute&highlight=tribute

Looking at Gibson's website, and some google searches,

the 50's tend to have 490/498s, pickups with some P90s
the 60's tend to have p90's, with some BB1/BB2's
the 70's tend to have mini's, with some Dirty Fingers

Also, looks like the Tribute series are 1/8" thinner, and have the modern weight relief.
 
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