Gibson Custom Handpicked 1958 Les Paul Standard Heavy Aged (Beauty of the Burst p.94) Overview
One of our purchasing team was lucky enough to visit Gibson's Nashville Custom Shop recently. Whilst there we sorted through literally hundreds of Maple tops to select the finest available for a special run of one-off custom-made guitars, of which this is one. It is simply one of the finest reissues available- not only are the Maple tops handpicked but so too are the solid Mahogany backs (for extra-light weight and resonance) and solid one-piece, extra-dark Rosewood fingerboards.For some of our Handpicked run we have selected our favourite examples of original '59 Sunburst Les Pauls featured in Yasuhiko Iwande's 'Beauty of the Burst' book and asked the Custom Shop to re-create them. This is finished to look like the guitar pictured on p.94, it's a true beauty! Also the Heavy Ageing process (rarely seen on a LPR8) is amazing.
Aside from the custom features outlined for each individual guitar it is constructed to 2013 Historic specification. This includes one-piece Rosewood fingerboards (all our Handpicked models are extra-dark), KlusonGäó Deluxe machine heads, hot-hide glue neck fit, a Historic Truss Rod assembly with no tubing, accurate body and fingerboard binding colour and new Custom Buckers created in the image of the original PAFs. On this particular guitar the bridge pickup will be uncovered (with two black bobbins) and the neck pickup will have an aged nickel cover. We've seen a few original '59s like this..
We've included a picture of the rough-cut Maple top at the bottom of the page so you can see a 'before and after' of this beautiful guitar!
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- Finish: Heavy Aged
- Top colour: Beauty of the Burst p.94
- Back/sides colour: Aniline Red
- Handpicked body: Yes
- Neck profile: Standard '58
- Fingerboard: Dark Rosewood
- Pickguard: Yes
- Tuners: Kluson
- Neck pickup: Nickel Custom Bucker
- Bridge pickup: Double Black Custom Bucker