Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS Washed Cherry Sunburst #932676

1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS Washed Cherry Sunburst #932676 at a glance:

• Gibson Custom Shop 1959 Les Paul Electric Guitar
• Serial number 932676
• Solid mahogany body, without weight relief
• Two-piece maple top, glued with Hide Glue
• Nitrocellulose VOS finish with Vintage patina
• Single-ply Royalite body binding
• Mahogany neck, with Long Neck Tenon
• 50s Rounded Medium C neck profile
• Rosewood fingerboard with 22 Historic Medium Jumbo frets
• Two Gibson Custombucker humbuckers with Alnico III magnets
• M69 cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) humbucker frame
• CTS 500K audio taper potentiometer, paper-in-oil capacitors and Switchcraft jack
• Gibson ABR-1 Tune-o-Matic bridge and aluminium stop bar
• Kluson single line/single ring machine heads
• Lifton hardshell Case and certificate of authenticity included
  
  

With the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS Washed Cherry Sunburst presents the Gibson Custom Shop presents the most authentic reissue of the legendary '59 Les Paul. As a result of accurate laser scans of original instruments of the era with detailed colour values of the Sunburst-Finish and chemical analysis of the composition of individual plastic components, the 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS is far more than a mere tribute instrument but sees itself as an exact copy of the prototype. Of course, the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS Washed Cherry Sunburst comes as a genuine Custom Shop instrument in the original Lifton Hardshell Case and including a certificate of authenticity.

Authentic mahogany construction

Of course, the original tonewood combination of the Gibson Les Paul is used for the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue VOS Washed Cherry Sunburst. So the solid mahogany body without weight relief is finished with a two-piece curly maple top and a classic Royalite binding, and connected to the usual strong '50s Rounded Medium C mahogany neck via a long neck heel (Long Neck Tenon). Authentic Hide Glue is used for all glueing, creating the tried and tested resonant glue joints of the '59 Les Paul.