Did LP Deluxes come with regular sized humbuckers?

Im in a minor argument with someone who says LP Deluxes came with regular sized humbuckers, I believe LP Deluxes come only with Mini Humbuckers. Whose wrong here? It's a submission for ace freehly.

They did come with Regular Humbuckers, I have a Sunburst Les Paul Deluxe Leftie from the 70's with Cream Coloured Humbuckers.

Edit: And when you look up "Les Paul Deluxe" in google you do get a LOT of images of the Mini-Humbucker ones.

Thank you, had no idea I thought it was just MiniBuckers. So what is the difference between your deluxe and any other LP?

I don't know, I'm not even Left-Handed, I just use it for practice. I don't think there's anything special about it aside from it being Leftie, and apparently the fact that it's got Regular-Sized Humbuckers.

Edit: it also looks to have a 3-Piece Neck.

Interesting, thank you.

You're welcome.

as far as I know only the very early ones, 69 to 70 or 71... I believe Tom Schultz has a 69 goldtop deluxe thatwas stock with full size buckers.

Thank you, had no idea I thought it was just MiniBuckers. So what is the difference between your deluxe and any other LP?

just in general the other big difference between the deluxes and everything before or since is the 'pancake' body construction... most, but not all LP deluxes have 4 layers of body wood. The mahogany slab is a 'pancake stack' with a layer of what I believe to be maple sandwiched between 2 layers of mahogany... then there's the maple carve top of course. I would be interested to hear if Clifford Bao's is a pancake or not becuase in my experience the guitars with stock full size buckers are never pancake construction, but they made a lot of deluxes... I would also like to know what year clifford's is. All the traditionally appointed deluxes I've encountered were early ones... mostly 69s, some 70s and I THINK a 71... but it coulda been misdated. The guy who owned it was one of those loudmouthed guys who didn't actually know much.

Interesting, thank you for the little crash course.

It looks like a one piece Body & Top, at least from what I can tell from the outside, I'll look up the Serial Number tomorrow if I remember. I'm working with my Amp room and a project guitar of mine so I may or may not remember.

Got the Serial Number, back of the Headstock reads: 70099009 along with the standard Made In U.S.A.

Also: Another few odd features I forgot to mention were that it's got a Brass Nut and looks like Bridge Saddles too, a Heel at the back of the Headstock and no binding on the back.

it shouldn't have binding on the back, that's a custom... brass parts would not be stock. Even when gibson used brass saddles they were nickel plated. That heel you're referring to is called a volute and was gibson's attempt to prevent their headstocks from breaking off.... it didn't really help. There's soemthing about their joint that's more prone to that then the way a lot of japanese clones of the period did it and the volute adds extra wood that just makes the headstock a little heavier... you still see just as many norlin era gibsons with headstock repairs, they just break a little differently :-(

your serial indicates a '79, probably made january 9th in kalamazoo and was (interestingly) the 9th guitar they finished that day. That's the end of the deluxe' run so who knows what they were doing at that point? the beginning and end of a model were always crazy at gibson. They would change up specs to try to use up parts they had laying around etc... in fact the minibuckers on the deluxe were allabout using up extra minibuckers after gibson brass shut down the USA made Epi line they ahd maintained throughout the 60s as direct equivalents to certain gibson models with different pickups and ehadstocks... sometimes not even different pickups LOL, look at the casino es330, Same exact guitar.

Hey, Big update: I just took apart my Les Paul Deluxe with the full sized humbuckers, I just noticed the pickups say "DIMARZIO PICKUPS MADE IN U.S.A." on the backs. I'm starting to think the full-size humbuckers aren't stock and that somebody just routed the mini-humbucker holes bigger and put DiMarzios in, but I don't know. Either way, I'm a DiMarzio guy so good for me.

I know Guild used DiMarzios at one point or another, but did Gibson ever use DiMarzio pickups?

that sounds rightto me.... lots of guys added super distortions or the dimarzio PAFs to their deluxes. Did a little routing and popped them in. If they did a good job you won't know without opening it. Gibson never uses anyone else's humbucker unless its a signature model. At the time it was all their own stuff. If they did a hot pickup it was the dirty fingers, their copy of a super distortion.