Gibson Custom Standard Historic 1958 Les Paul Standard VOS, Green Lemon

Gibson Custom Standard Historic 1958 Les Paul Standard VOS, Green Lemon Overview

Gibson Custom Standard Historic 1958 Les Paul Standard VOS Overview by GAK:

A beautiful Green Lemon R8, the finish on this one inspired by a very famous '59 that's still got the blues.. This one has the 'VOS' nitrocellulose finish treatment which gives it the patina of a gently aged vintage guitar.

Standard Historic spec includes the following improvements over previous incarnations of Historic guitars: 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 colour, Custom Bucker pickups and period-correct Aniline dye. Also hothide glue is used for the fingerboard and there is an anniversary badge on the back of the guitar on the pickup selector cover. The neck profile is a classic rounded '58 measuring 0.900" at the nut to 1.000". Also the mahogany slab for the body is hand-selected for light weight.

Created in the image of the original PAFs, Gibson Custom's already legendary 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 Standard Historic Les Paul Standard Reissues play 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.