Gibson Custom Handpicked Historic Select 1959 Les Paul 2015 (Green Lemon Vintage Gloss) Overview
Wow! Here we have our very first 'Historic Select' Custom Shop Gibson guitar! The Historic Select programme enables special order guitars to be built to full True Historic spec. In this instance GAK staff handpicked the woods at the factory in Nashville- as is evidenced by one of the most stunning guitars we've seen for a while! A truly exceptional guitar in every department and to our knowledge unique in this Green Lemon Vintage Gloss finish making it an excellent investment for any player or collector.Available only in very limited quantities as of 2015, a True Historic/Historic Select guitar is the closest you can come to owning an original vintage Les Paul from the 1950s without actually acquiring an original. The True Historic 1959 Les Paul Reissue features double-carved and hand sanded neck and top profiles, thin wet-sanded lacquer, Custom wound Custom Bucker pickups and Hot Hide Glue joinery and even reformulated plastics based on lab analysis of original vintage parts.
The True Historic range represents fanatic new levels of detail accuracy, employing new processes, new materials, and new skills to give you an entirely authentic ownership experience, placing the beauty, feel, and tone of an original 1950s Gibson in your hands. You simply can't get closer to the real thing.
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- Double-Carved Top: Authentic vintage dish profile
- Double-Carved Neck: Hand sanded for ideal playability and accurate profile
- "Broken" Peghead Edges, Smoother Edges: Vintage Looks and Feel
- Thinner Peghead Veneer: A testament to obsession with detail
- Thinner True Historic Wet-Sanded Finish: More work, more authentic
- Hide Glue Top Construction: A real vintage spec on the most "original" Reissue yet
- Rolled Fingerboard Binding: It's all about feel and playability
- True Historic Plastics: Molecular level analysis delivers authentic vintage design
- True Historic Pickup Covers: Designed and engineered based on the originals
- Top Wood: Carved Figured Maple attached with Hot Hide Glue
- Body Wood: Solid Non-Weight Relieved Mahogany
- Neck Wood: 1-Piece Mahogany Neck
- Neck Shape: Early '50s Rounded
- Neck Dimensions: .920 1st - 1.020 12th
- Fingerboard: Rosewood attached with Hot Hide Glue
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"
- Inlays: Cellulose Trapezoids
- Scale Length: 24.75"
- Width at Nut: 1 11/16"
- Frets: 22
- Headstock: True Historic Pegged Veneer
- Binding: Single-Ply Cream on Top and Hand filed rolled Fingerboard Binding
- Pickups: 2 Custom Buckers
- Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone and 3-way Toggleswitch
- Hardware : Nickel
- Bridge: ABR-1
- Tailpiece: Lightweight Aluminum Stopbar
- Tuners: Kluson "Deluxe"
- Unique Features: Vintage Accurate Plastic Parts
- Case: Gibson Custom Hardshell
