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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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With Gibson, Custom Shop LPs will always have one-piece backs, but Gibson USA editions will usually be multi-piece (you do spot the odd one that is a one-piece though).
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I've always wondered why Santana got a line down where the sides meet on his guitar. Guess he likes the way it looks.
Gibson copied other traditional instruments with this look.. violins also have 1 or 2 piece backs, but 2 piece is common on anything bigger than that.
Not all Les Pauls are bookmatched, not even all the flamey ones
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The two lines between the pickups would have been the same, on a guitar with a full-width extended neck tenon - which I think the first all-mahogany one he had was. Notice they align with the edges of the neck.
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The two lines between the pickups on any later ones serve no function other than identifying it as a Santana model
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It might also help explain why Mr. Smith was an early and enthusiastic adopter of CNC tooling as well .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
and a pre-production Santana model after someone had obviously had a word about the line... notice the middle bit of maple doesn't match the rest of the (one-piece) top, so is likely capping a long tenon. Modern ones are just a couple of pearl inlays with the normal PRS join
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That's by far the best-looking of them.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein