The Harley Benton one doesn't. If you want a special, HB has an excellent SC version,

This one has no pocket, a very firmly secured neck and also a volut to the disguised catastrophy in the shows season finaly. They had a "peg" break but shows a "neck" break problems with Bocchis Les Paul Custom, and original designs of the Junior are also prone to that. So the original Juniors had to common breaking points - like the reissues.

The Harley Benton doesn't. It is better.

It opened a new way of playing for me, because it sounds so good with a mild overdrive I start to make rock riffs all over the place.

Ironically Gibson just about now made a new series of those things.... but for whatever reason none of them in blue to cash in on Bocchi fans.

And also Epiphore has a version, or better, two, as well.

But there is a thing, original cost cutting ment a very bad bridge and a pu pocket near the neck.

The new ones replicate that.

And at the last minute, I found one, 30 minutes away. Even in one of my prefered colors. (Show version be damned, I don't like HBs covering blue with sparkles)

And someone already did file and setup the fretboard how I like it, and replaced the pickup with a noiceless one that still sounds excellent (I have to dismantle it to know what it actually is)

And it turned out to be the "olden" specs with Mahagony slabs and real ebony.

And the guitar really is as good as I hoped it would be.

So arround that time I also developped an interest to get one, curiosity spurred by the show, but ultimatly I wanted one because of its own merits. They were 150 Euro when I started to look, Mahagony, Ebony, as said, but than they got more expensive, Nyanty wood, some stand in for ebony on the fretboard and increasing prices.

So I lost all hope, I almost deleted my search jobs.

But also, it is an easy to replicate and, very importantly, improvable concept. Some glued together mahagony slabs for the body, a wrap around bridge, just one P90 pickup and an ebony or rosewood fretnoard.

Harley Benton was the only company that offered that at the time of showing the first season.

Guess what, the HBs sold like crazy in Japan ;-)

I guess, in the show it is a setip for a future storyline that this is such an expensive guitar, but there are cheaper alternatives.

See, that guitar has a very special sound. It is not so in the show, Kitas part are played by a Fender Telecaster. But everytime I heard a real Gibson Junior played it was very different: A rock machine

What I learned is this: This guitar is called the junior, and it is officially a Les Paul, those usually look quite different. And it is the cheapest version they could buld, hence junior as in "for beginners who might recognize the hobby is not for them"

For me, it is the coolest looking Gibson I ever encountered.

And that one pick up, that is exactly what makes it special, but not Special ;-)

Unbeknownsed to most of the viewers, this very unusual guitar is at the time of airing incredibly valuable, because it is either a vintage Gibson instrument in pristine condition or Custon Shop rebuild by the US american factory.

I personally had never heard of this one. I knew of the Beato signature Special, that had two pick ups and wasn't especially cheap eather, and it wasnt one of those.