Shape change and name change due to Les Paul's divorce.^^^^^
The guy that ran the local mom-'n-pop music store when I was a kid had a white/gold Gibson 3-pickup that looked just like that. I believe it was a "Les Paul" at the time he purchased it, as the designation "SG" didn't exist yet. Somebody straighten me out if I'm misturkeyed. Cat could play pretty much anything Chet Atkins could, because that's who he was a sideman to before he quit to settle-in to small-town-music-store life. I'll never forget the smell of that store...