Nice set up, with the front soap bar pick up, and the humbucker in the back.
@GrouchoTex Pallo consulted with Gibson when the company wanted to make the model. The pickup array; the square-inlay fretboard a la the Les Paul Custom, were both his. So was building the guitar otherwise along the body weight and neck shape/thickness of the 1959 Les Paul Standard. He did reject Gibson's original idea for the model that they put
his signature and not Les Paul's on the headstock. Pallo wouldn't let anything suggesting disrespect toward Paul to appear on the guitar. (They were friends and musical partners for three decades.) So he suggested and Gibson agreed that his signature, far smaller, should appear in the inlay at the twelfth fret.
Gibson produced the guitar in a limited run of 400 instruments in 2011. The run included a black pickup cover (at the neck) and frame (at the bridge), black volume and tone knobs, and a black toggle switch chip. I saw a subsequent interview with Lou Pallo in which he said he'd preferred the colours you see on my guitar. When I saw that, I got curious---I went to one of those sites where you can design your own guitar. I chose the Les Paul designers. Then, I did one with the same black top but the colours of the cover, frame, knobs, and chip you see on my instrument. I saw why Pallo preferred that---it looked so great, I made the changes on my guitar.
My guitar is also number 31 in the limited run. (Gibson painted the numbers on the back of the headstock.) I acquired it in 2016, five years after the guitar was manufactured---but to my absolute shock, the seller who put the instrument for sale on Reverb informed me it was new old stock:
nobody had even touched the guitar for the six years it was in their store, other than to clean and maintain it. And for the kind of jazzy blues I play, this guitar is as good as it gets when you run both pickups together through a Fender amplifier with nothing in between but a volume pedal.