Следующие поколения smartwood ушли в несколько другую сторону от традиций стандарта, как в плане звука, так и производства, соответственно мой инструмент как раз первого поколения)
Рефиниш делался до меня, таким купил, сравнивал несколько вариантов, этот имеет очень хороший характер!
Les Paul Smartwood (Standard) (1996-99)
Single-cut solidbody, carved top, bound top
• Les Paul Standard with wood certified by the Rainforest Alliance, gold-plated hardware, Natural finish.
• Chechen fingerboard, pearl trapezoid inlays
• Pickups & Controls: 2 humbucking pickups, 4 knobs, selector switch on upper bass bout.
Les Paul Smartwood Exotic (1998-2002)
Thin single-cut solidbody, carved top, green leaf on truss-rod cover, dot inlays
• Body & Hardware: thinsingle cutaway (like The Paul II) with body of exotic wood certified by the Rainforest Alliance, mahogany back, top cap options include curupay, taperyva guasu, cancharana, peroba, banara or ambay guasu, gold-plated hardware, SL (Sans Lacquer) matte polyurethane finish specified.
• Neck: curupay fingerboard, dot inlays, green leaf on truss-rod cover
Les Paul Smartwood Studio (2003)
Single-cut solidbody, carved top, green leaf on truss-rod cover
• Body & Hardware: single-cutaway solidbody of certified muira piranga wood, Natural finish.
• Neck: unbound muira piranga fingerboard, dot inlays, green leaf on truss-rod cover.
• Pickups & Controls: 2 humbucking pickups, 4 knobs, selector switch on upper bass bout.