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A Goldtop with Golden Tones, featuring vintage accurate construction and Gibson P90 Pickups!
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Condition: Used, Excellent
SP Luthier Notes: Some of the frets as they arrived were deemed to need only a minor cleanup. A polish was performed on the frets and fingerboard bringing the fretboard to pristine condition! A majority of the other frets showed evidence of play wear. As such, the frets were leveled, recrowned, and polished back to a near mint state. No further work was required.
1956 was the only full year in which the Les Paul model featured the powerful P-90 pickups and the adjustable ABR-1 bridge setup, a combination that allowed the Les Paul model to intonate, sustain, and thrill like never before. This Gibson Custom Shop '56 Reissue captures the look, feel and searing sound of an original 1956 Les Paul Goldtop in exhaustive detail, featuring all solid woods, vintage-accurate gold paint, authentic replica parts, Historic narrow/tall frets, and hot hide glue construction.
Today's Gibson electric guitars represent the history as well as the future of the electric guitar. The models whose designs have become classics-the ES-175, ES-335, Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, SGs and Les Pauls-are a testament to Gibson's wide appeal, spanning more than four decades of music styles. Gibson's close relationship with musicians is manifest in endorsement models from King, Atkins and jazz greats Howard Roberts and Herb Ellis, plus new Les Pauls made to the personal specifications of rock stars Jimmy Page and Joe Perry. In 1994, Gibson's Centennial year, the new Nighthawk model won an industry award for design, setting the stage for a second hundred years of Gibson quality and innovation.
Model: Wildwood Spec 1956 Les Paul Standard
Finish Color: Gold Top
Weight: 8 lbs 10oz
Top Wood: Carved Maple Attached with Hot Hide Glue
Body Wood: Mahogany
Neck Wood: 1-Piece Mahogany Neck
Neck Shape: '50s Rounded
Neck Dimensions: .910 1st - 1.010 12th
Fingerboard: Rosewood Attached with Hot Hide Glue
Fingerboard Radius: 12"
Inlays: Cellulose Trapezoids
Scale Length: 24.75"
Width at Nut: 1-11/16"
Frets: 22
Binding: Single-Ply Cream on Top and Hand-Filed Rolled Fingerboard Binding
Pickups: 2 Custom P-90s w/Alnico III Magnets
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone and 3-way Toggleswitch
Hardware: Nickel
Bridge: ABR-1
Tailpiece: Lightweight Aluminum Stopbar
Tuners: Kluson Deluxe
Case: Gibson Custom Hardshell