This Johnston LP Style Guitar started life off as a Westfield Les Paul that came “free” with an amp I bought on a local selling website.
When a guitar has a good neck and body you can work wonders with it. This one has a good mahogany neck and body and the tuners and bridge are good too.
It lay around the workshop for a few years until I decided to do something with it during “lockdown”.
I stripped out the pots and 3 way switch and replaced them. I then also took out the stock pickups and replaced them.
The new pickups are a set of my Johnston hand-wound Riveter pickups. The coils are 42 gauge enamelled wire and the magnets are AlNiCo V.
The neck pickup is wound to 7.0 K.ohms and the bridge pickups to 8.0 K.ohms.
Then, in homage to my all-time favourite guitarist, Peter Green, I fitted a push/pull pot in the neck tone position and wired the guitar with a “Peter Green mod”.
So now the guitar is a great sounding LP style guitar and when the Peter Green mod is switched in, absolutely stunning.
Even when I play “Need Your Love So Bad” it sounds great!
