Gibson L5-s, made in USA in 1978,  a solid body version of the Gibson L5.  Doubly bound, flattish body, kind of Les Paul-ish, slightly arched maple top with ebony. Double-sided binding and the Ebony fretboard with real abalone. The guitar has a micro tuning TP-6 tailpiece and a classic 1970s harmonica bridge. The guitar is a luxurious mixture of mahogany with maple on the front and back and including a cavity backplate made out of matching wood. L5-s guitars were originally designed in 1973 as jazz/fusion guitar and issued out with low-impedance pickups, later versions of the L5-s came with standard Bill Lawrence TAR-back hum-buckers. Wider than the Les Paul models, the size and dimensions are like the Gibson Les Paul Recording. As this is a 1978 Model, the original case is the plastic moulded chainsaw case.

Here one of my nicest Gibson L-5s Guitars. The L-5s is as far as I know a Bill Lawrence co-designed solid body version of the Gibson L5 semiacoustic Guitar. Flattish body, kinda Les Paulish, slightly arched maple top with ebony. Fairly flat guitar, and apart from the double sided binding and the Ebony fretboard with real abalone, it’s quite similar to the Gibson L6-s, but less flat and contoured. Even the cavity backplate is made out of the wood. Originally designed as jazz/fusion guitar and kitted out with low impedance pick ups, laterally it came with standard humbuckers. This guitar packs a punch and is cool to look at also. Guitar lives in its In it’s Case. The outer dimensions are similar to the Gibson Les Paul Recording.