Les Paul Special With P-100 Pickups

Pros: This is a very good sounding guitar.
Cons: None.

GIBSON LES PAUL SPECIAL WITH P-100 PICKUPS Gibson originally introduced the Les Paul Special in 1955, as guitar priced between the low cost entry level Les Paul Junior, and the Les Paul model which eventually became known as the Les ...

Pros: Priced well, plays well, looks good, sounds great, is versatile and great value its price.
Cons: No whammy bar. The ONLY thing strats have over Les Pauls!

My Gibson double-cut has P100's (red guitar, black pickup covers). It also has the small roundish white knobs on the tuners. I'm not quite sure of its proper model designation, whether it is a variation of the LP Junior subset, but the unusual feature is the small, rather than full-size trazepoidal position markers on the fingerboard instead of dots. The pickups are not as bright as P90s, but are very powerful, and have a well-balanced frequency range: strong bottom, good midrange without the undue midrange emphasis one gets from normal humbuckers, (unlike most I'm not a great fan of normal Les Paul humbuckers) and has good treble, but not the cut one can get with P90s.
It is a versatile, workhorse guitar, will fit in anywhere with any genre of rock music, I wouldn't have it as guitar of choice for jazz, or for vintage blues, tho it will cook if you like the Clapton/Rory Gallagher/ Vaughan type genre of blues.