Price: $6,499.00
Here’s your chance to own a landmark guitar that changed the sound of rock and blues, the 50th Anniversary 1958 Les Paul Standard. Gibson is producing only 200 of this limited edition.Everything that made the original great is found on this special commemorative edition. The figured maple top is carved to original spec with a solid Honduran mahogany back. The neck is also one-piece mahogany with the historically correct long neck tenon for sustain. The early ’50s neck profile is rounded for comfort. The rosewood fingerboard has Gibson’s distinctive trapezoid inlays. Side position markers are tortoise, just as on the ‘58. The stop tailpiece is lightweight aluminum, and the tuners are vintage tulip style, with push-in bushings, just like the original.This anniversary ‘58 employs CTS potentiometers for volume and tone, as well as the bumblebee capacitors, custom-made for Gibson to replicate the original electronics. Speaking of electronics, we can’t leave out the Burstbucker pickups, custom wound to emulate the original late ’50s Gibson humbuckers.The thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish material and methods as the same as was the practice in 1958. Nitrocellulose lacquer continues to evaporate insuring the thinnest possible finish that will never dampen vibrations and supports complex musical waveforms! Prized for enhancing the musical tone, you’ll find a nitro finish on nearly all vintage and collectable American guitars.The guitar’s nitrocellulose finish is carefully aged by guitar guru Tom Murphy and looks like a carefully maintained 50-year-old guitar! The highly involved antiquing process is done by hand, one guitar at a time, by guitar artisan Murphy. It’s not a chemical process, but a very time consuming and tedious job that includes a multitude of elaborate steps. Through much trial and error, Murphy has developed an amazing ability to re-create the checked and chipped finish of a true vintage instrument with great success.
Features
- Body: Carved figured maple top, solid mahogany back
- Finish: Murphy-aged
- Binding: Period-correct, thin single-ply cream binding on top
- Bridge: Nickel-plated ABR-1
- Tailpiece: Aluminum, nickel-plated stopbar
User Reviews
Um... lets see, for start I do not own it YET but I tested this same type and color guitar out and compared it to many others at the guitar center... sounds gorgeous... so whats the problem you say... its not even $1,500 at the guitar center. Is this one autographed or something??? I must be mistakened but I am about 98% sure that I am not. Actually It wasnt even $1,000... that itself was a discount granted but even without the sale its not this expensive... maybe its just me. -- Beautiful but... really?
