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IN HIS OWN WORDS<\/div>\n
\u201cI took a length of 4 x 4 pine, put an Epiphone neck on it, wound a couple of homemade pickups and mounted them on the wood. Then I added a bridge and a Vibrola tailpiece, strung it up, and I had the Log. It was crude, but when I plugged it into an amp, it worked.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On a Saturday night, I took it to The Sheik, a little club in Sunnyside, where I played the same songs (on the Log) with the same trio I often jammed with, and nobody gave much notice to it. I was getting a very cool, unusual sound with this electric Log … A piece of lumber being played as an electric guitar was something nobody had ever seen before, or even thought of, but it didn\u2019t seem to make a big impression.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So I went back to the Epiphone factory, took the sound box of an old Epiphone archtop, and sawed it in half right down the middle. Then I braced up the halves so they could be<\/div>\n
attached to the sides… With wings attached, I took the Log<\/div>\n
back to the same club, and jammed again with the same trio.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And to my surprise, there was a great reaction. Everyone<\/div>\n
started talking about the unusual sound and asking questions about the guitar and my amplifier. There was a positive reaction to the sound I got that night, which was the same sound the same people had heard before. So I came to the conclusion that people hear with their eyes.\u201d –Les Paul<\/div>\n
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IN HIS OWN WORDS \u201cI took a length of 4 x 4 pine, put an Epiphone neck on it, wound a couple of homemade pickups and mounted them on the wood. Then I added a bridge and a Vibrola tailpiece, strung it up, and I had the Log. It was crude, but when I plugged … <\/p>\n

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