GIBSON 1959 Les Paul Standard Heavy Aged Golden Poppy Burst #93653
Custom Shop Les Paul electric guitar with Custom Bucker pickups and Murphy Lab Heavy Aged Treatment, including case and certificate
1959 Les Paul Standard electric guitar from Gibson Custom Shop
Serial number 93653
One piece mahogany body
Two-piece curly maple top, with Royalite binding
Mahogany neck with long neck tenon
Rosewood fingerboard with 22 Authentic Medium Jumbo frets
Cellulose nitrate trapeze inlays
Two Gibson Custom Bucker humbuckers (Alnico III, unwaxed)
Hand-wired electronics with CTS pots and paper-in-oil caps
Gibson ABR-1 Tune-o-Matic bridge and aluminum stopbar
Kluson machine heads (single line/single ring)
Nickel hardware, Murphy Lab Heavy Aged
Golden Poppy Burst nitrocellulose finish, Murphy Lab Heavy Aged
Includes case, custom store switch plate medallion and certificate of authenticity
Recreation of an icon
As a tribute to the legendary 1959 Les Paul model, the Gibson Custom Shop, in collaboration with the aging specialists at Murphy Lab , offers an extremely successful recreation of the archetype. From the turned wood selection to the hand-wiredelectronics to the texture of finish and hardware, the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Golden Poppy Burst Heavy Aged truly has everything a classic '59 Les Paul should.
The Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard Heavy Aged Golden Poppy Burst #93653 with authentic aging treatment from the Gibson Murphy Lab.
Maple top and mahogany neck with long neck base.
The basis of the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard 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.
Two Gibson Custom Bucker with Alnico III magnets are responsible for the unique PAF sound.
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. Hand-wound in the Gibson Custom Shop, the pickups feature Alnico III magnets for a warm and vocal tone character and have non-waxed coils, clearly preserving 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.
Detailed playing marks on typical areas of the body skillfully depict the tasteful Murphy Lab Heavy-Aged treatment.
Murphy Lab Heavy Aged Treatment
The Murphy Lab, founded by aging legend Tom Murphy, consists of a number of experts who analyze in detail the varnish texture and aging process of the hardware of original instruments and recreate it authentically in the 1959 Les Paul Standard Heavy Aged Golden Poppy Burst . The Heavy Aged Treatment here represents a more severe aging process and simulates the accumulated signs of wear in the form of visible playing marks of an instrument that has been played frequently over the years. The composition of the nitro lacquer was also taken into account here, so that the instrument can develop additional aging characteristics over time.
Features:
Manufacturer:
Gibson
Series:
Gibson Custom Shop
Design:
Les Paul
Body:
Mahogany
Top:
Maple
Binding:
Royalite
Neck:
Mahogany
Neck Construction:
Set-in
Neck Profile:
Authentic '59 Medium 'C'-Shape
Scale in mm:
628
Fretboard:
Rosewood
Fretboard Type:
Fretted
Fretboard Radius in Inches:
12
Number of Frets:
22
Fret Format:
Authentic Medium Jumbo
Fretboard Inlays:
Trapeze
Nut type:
Nylon
Nut width in mm:
42.9
Pickup:
HH
Manufacturer pickups:
Gibson
Neck Pickup:
Custombucker, Unpotted
Middle Pickup:
No
Bridge Pickup:
Custombucker, Unpotted
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
Tailpiece:
Aluminium Stopbar
Tuners:
Kluson Single Ring Tulip
Strap Button:
Standard
Hardware:
Nickel
String Gauge:
.010 - .046
Factory Tuning:
Standard E
Country of Origin:
USA
Finish:
Murphy Lab Heavy Aged
Colour:
Golden Poppy Burst
Number of Strings:
6
Case included:
Yes
Gigbag included:
No
Certificate:
Yes
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