Description
2008 (Jan) Gibson Les Paul Standard Custom Shop 1959
Reissue Washed Cherry VOS
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Tony Elder / Steve Jackson
Black Dot Music
Est 1985
Still in the good wood era of the very desirable and more accurate 1999-2009 pre the Gibson wood seizures. Very clean condition with a bump on the back edge (as pictured) and some small bangle indentations without paint loss. A very happy guitar with a realistic flame top.
2008 Gibson Custom Shop 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue (R9) features a carved AAA flame maple top, a solid lightweight mahogany body, and a chunky 1950s rounded neck profile.
Body & Finish.
- Top Wood: Carved AAA figured/flame maple
- Back Wood: Solid, lightweight non-weight-relieved mahogany
- Finish: Hand-sprayed nitrocellulose lacquer in VOS – (Vintage Original Spec) Heritage Cherry.
- Binding: Cream single-ply binding on top and fretboard.
Neck & Fingerboard.
- Neck Wood: 1-piece mahogany with a long neck tenon joint
- Neck Profile: Authentic 1959 chunky C-shape 50s carve
- Fingerboard: 1-piece solid rosewood with cellulose nitrate trapezoid inlays
- Scale Length: 24.75in. (62.865 cm)
- Frets: 22 vintage-style medium-jumbo frets (dressed via Plek system)
- Nut Width: 1.6875in. (42.8 mm), nylon nut
Hardware & Electronics.
- Pickups: Gibson BurstBucker 1 (neck) and BurstBucker 2 (bridge) Alnico II humbuckers.
- Controls: CTS potentiometers, Bumblebee replica capacitors, 2 volume pots, 2 tone pots, and a 3-way Switchcraft selector switch.
- Bridge: ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge with lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece
- Tuners: Reissue Kluson Deluxe green-key tuners
- Hardware Finish: Nickel
