Hi nochmal!
ALso wie gesagt, ich lasse mich immer gerne von der Wahrheit überzeugen. Hier sind jedenfalls die Infosa die ich gerade mla schnell zusammen gesucht habe:
Aus "Epiphone, The Complete History":
" Les Paul was one of the earliest proponents of the solid body electric guitar, and in1941 he built one using a 4x4 piece of pine. Epi let him use the Epiphone factory as a workshop, and Paul fastened the body sides of an Epi
archtop to his pine centerpiece. The neck was also a stock Epiphone neck, although Paul used a fingerboard made by the Chicago-based Larson brothers.
The Log, as the instument was nicknamed, attracted a great deal of attentionwherever Paul played it over the next ten years, in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. (In the early fifties, when Paul signed an endorsement agreement with Gibson, Gibson put a new veneer with a Gibson logo on the headstock of the Log."
"the true story of the Les Paul.
In 1941 Les was working at the Epiphone factory in New York. He built his
first guitar on weekends by attaching an Epiphone neck, fingerboard and
body
parts to a fourfoot x four-inch board, then sandwiched a couple of Epiphone
body halves, or 'wings' to a solid center block.
Soon after, Les chopped up another Epiphone, re-braced its hollow body with
a steel bar, wound his own Super-hot Pickups, and took his new creation to
the big wig, at Gibson. Unfortunately, Gibson's decision makers weren't
interested with his "broomstick with pickups." But Les kept working on his
designs until Gibson gained interest. Then, in 1952, the first solid body
electric was produced and the rest is history. (...)"
Das selbe von
http://musikundtechnik.de/Epiphonemenu_23.html?menuks=23&pro_ser=498&:
"Jedes Wochenende ging der damals berühmteste Gitarrist Amerikas, Les Paul, in die leeren Fabrikhallen von Epiphone, um an seiner Vorstellung einer idealen Gitarre zu arbeiten. Um 1941 baute er "The Log", einen Klotz aus Ahorn, an dem er Steg, Tonabnehmer, Saitenhalter und einen ganz normalen Gibson-Gitarrenhals befestigte. Dann zerschnitt er eine seiner Epiphone-Gitarren der Länge nach und klebte die Korpushälften vorn und hinten auf den Klotz. Fertig war seine erste elektrische Solidbody-Gitarre."
Demnach war die erste SolidBody-Gitarre in der Tat eine Les Paul und sie wurde in der Epiphone-Fabrik gebaut. Die erste "Les Paul" genannte Gitarre stammt aber in der Tat aus dem Hause Gibson. Hammer also beider recht
Gruß, Randy