Gibson Custom Shop 58 Les Paul Standard Historic M2M Kentucky Bourbon Fade #881092

 2018 Gibson Custom Shop 58 Les Paul Standard Historic Kentucky Bourbon Fade. Ordered by Andertons through the Made 2 Measure program, they picked a few choice tweaks and some limited colours and called them Bluesmaster 58's. This one has a AA Medium Flame Maple top with VOS Nitro Finish and Lightweight Mahogany Back (non weight relieved). The pickups are the Custom Buckers that were voiced for Collectors Choice #46, "The Scott Bradoka pickups are fat and warm sounding PAF's with a top mid harmonic sweet spot" They also included a coil tap on the neck pickup volume control which reverses the neck pickup polarity. This gives the famous Peter Green out of phase tone. As a 2018 model it has the latest spec with True Historic plastic and full Hide Glue construction ect. In very good condition, one tiny mark by toggle switch. Sounds amazing with these pickups and nice and light for a LP at 8.3lbs. Original case, Cert and Tags.

• Body
• Wood Species: Lightweight Solid Mahogany Body, 2 Piece AA Figured Maple Top, Hide Glue Fit
• Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Neck
• Material: Solid Mahogany, Long Tenon, Hide Glue Fit
• Neck Profile: Authentic '58
• Scale Length: 24.75", 62.865cm
• Fingerboard Material: Solid Rosewood, Hide Glue Fit
• Fingerboard Radius: 12"
• Number of Frets: 22
• Frets: Jescar FW50078
• Nut Material: Nylon
• Nut Width: 1.687", 42.85mm
• End of Board Width: 2.240", 56.89mm
• Inlays: Cellulose Trapezoid
• Truss Rod: '50s Tubeless
• Hardware
• Finish: Nickel
• Bridge: ABR-1
• Tailpiece: Lightweight Aluminum
• Electronics
• Pick Guard: Replica Laminated Acrylic
• Electronics
• Neck Pickup: Custombucker CC#46
• Bridge Pickup: Custombucker CC#46
• Controls: 2 500K CTS Volume Pots, 2 500K CTS Tone Pots, Hand-Wired Harness with Bumblebee Capacitors, Switchcraft Toggle Switch. Push Pull  on Volume knob for out of phase.
• Accessories
• Strings: 10-13-17-26-36-46
• Case: Brown/Pink Lacquered '50s Replica Case
• Other: Die-Cast Switch Plate Medallion (w/ Extra Black Plastic Cover in the Case), Gibson Custom Shop Certificate of Authenticity

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By the time the sunburst finish finally arrived on Gibson’s Les Paul Model in 1958, the guitar had already evolved through several modifications through the course of the decade, including the arrival of the Tune-o-matic bridge in 1956 and humbucking pickups in 1957. As legendary as ’50s Les Pauls have become, Gibson had sold fewer of the guitar every year since 1953, the year following its introduction, when the company shipped 2,245 Les Pauls. Gibson president Ted McCarty blamed some of the model’s waning popularity on its flashy Goldtop finish, and attempted to bolster its appeal with an elegant and more traditional Cherry Sunburst finish. Since this finish now displayed the grain of the guitar’s carved maple top, Gibson also now used “bookmatched” two-piece tops glued together with a center seam, giving each guitar its very own distinct look and marking the beginning of the guitar world’s fascination with figured maple tops, even though the majority of the tops used in 1958 were considered “plain” when compared to the tops used one year later and beyond. The 1958 Les Paul Standard Reissue from Gibson’s Custom Shop presents the most accurate recreation yet available of this first incarnation of the hallowed “Burst,” in a guitar that contains all the crucial ingredients, with a less showy maple top that is sometimes considered more authentic looking than those with highly detailed figuring. Also, while all Les Pauls were finished in Cherry Sunburst in 1958, these faded in greatly varying degrees, which are now accurately represented in the 1958 Les Paul Standard Reissue finish selections. Available in VOS are Bourbon Burst, Faded Tobacco Burst, Iced Tea Burst, Lemon Burst, Sunrise Tea Burst and Washed Cherry Sunburst.

The 1958 Les Paul Standard Reissue relies on the ingredients that made the Les Paul a classic in the first place, but puts them together in the way that first began to show off what was going on underneath the finish. The Gibson Custom Shop uses a body of solid, non-weight relieved mahogany, which blends depth and richness with the snap and clarity of the maple top. The quarter-sawn mahogany neck still has a chunky, rounded ’50s profile, which, in combination with the traditional long-tenon neck joint, enhances sustain and resonance as well as feeling great in the hand. These include a one-piece rosewood fingerboard, Kluson™ Deluxe machine heads, hot-hide glue neck fit, a Historic Truss Rod assembly with no tubing, accurate body and fingerboard binding color, new Custom Buckers created in the image of the original PAFs, and period-correct Aniline dye beneath its nitrocellulose lacquer finish.

Gibson Custom’s new Custom Bucker accurately recreates the original PAFs of the late ’50s, using Alnico III magnets and unequal turns of 42 AWG wire in each coil for that characteristic PAF “bite.” These pickups clean up beautifully at the guitar’s volume controls, while Bumble Bee tone caps assist in that warm, singing “woman tone” when you roll back the tone controls. To top it all off, the 1958 Les Paul Standard Reissue plays superbly right out of its Custom Shop hardshell case thanks to a trip through one of Gibson’s state-of-the-art Plek machines before it leaves the Custom Shop floor.