Includes case, Custom Shop Switch Plate medallion and certificate of authenticity
Maple top and mahogany neck with long neck base.
As a tribute to the legendary 1959 Les Paul model, the Gibson Custom Shop, in collaboration with the ageing specialists at Murphy Lab, offers an extremely successful recreation of the archetype. The basis of the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard FactoryBurst Ultra Light Aged electric guitar is its basic construction of selected tonewoods, as they were already used in the late fifties. Accordingly, the body is made of a solid piece of mahogany and finished with a two-piece curly maple top with a fancy flame. Of course, in the recipe of a good Fifties Les Paul may not be missing the long neck tenon of the mahogany neck glued up to under the neck pickup.
From the turned wood selection to the hand-wired electronics to the texture of finish and hardware, the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Factory Burst Ultra Light Aged truly has everything a classic '59 Les Paul should.
Hand-processed pickups and electronics create the deep Les Paul sound with a strong character of its own and high recognition value.
Gibson Custom Bucker with Paper-in-Oil Caps
For appropriate sounds of the legendary PAF humbucker, Gibson relies on successful replicas of the coveted dual coils with two Custom Bucker humbuckers. The hand Gibson Custom Shophand-wound pickups are equipped with Alnico III magnets for a warm and vocal sound character and feature non-waxed coils, which clearly preserve the treble content in the signal. The electronics wiring is also completely hand-wired and holds original components of the golden LP era with CTS potentiometers for Volume and Tone and oil paper capacitors.
The composition of the nitrocellulose lacquer was also taken into account here, so that the instrument can continue to develop its own aging over time.
Murphy Lab Ultra Light Aged Treatment
Created by ageing legend Tom Murphy, the Murphy Lab is a series of experts who analyze in detail the lacquer texture and ageing process ofHardware original instruments and authentically recreate them as part of the 1959 Les Paul Standard FactoryBurst Ultra Light Aged. The Ultra Light Aged Treatment represents the lightest ageing process of the Murphy Lab and simulates the few signs of wear of an amazingly well-maintained instrument, which shows only a few age-related traces in the form of nitro lacquer cracks and a slight hardware ageing.
Features:
Manufacturer:
Gibson
Series:
Gibson Custom Shop
Design:
Les Paul
Body:
Mahogany
Top:
Flamed Maple
Binding:
Royalite
Neck:
Mahogany
Neck Construction:
Long Neck Tenon, set
Neck Profile:
Authentic '59 Medium 'C'-Shape
Scale in mm:
628
Fretboard:
Rosewood
Fretboard Radius in Inches:
12
Number of Frets:
22
Fret Format:
Historic Medium Jumbo
Fretboard Inlays:
Trapeze
Nut type:
Nylon
Nut width in mm:
42.9
Width at Last Fret:
56.9
Pickup:
HH
Manufacturer pickups:
Gibson
Neck Pickup:
Custom Bucker, Alnico III
Middle Pickup:
No
Bridge Pickup:
Custom Bucker, Alnico III
Piezo Pickup:
No
Active pickups:
No
Coil-splitting:
No
Electronic:
Handwired, Paper-in-Oil Caps
Switch:
3-Way
Control:
2x Vol, 2x Tone
Bridge:
Gibson ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
Tailpiece:
Aluminum Stopbar
Tuners:
Kluson Single Line/Single Ring
Strap Button:
Standard
Hardware:
Nickel
String Gauge:
.010 - .046
Factory Tuning:
Standard E
Country of Origin:
USA
Finish:
Murphy Lab Ultra Light Aged
Colour:
Factory Burst
Number of Strings:
6
Case included:
Yes
Gigbag included:
No
Certificate:
Yes
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