Gibson Custom True Historic 1956 Les Paul Goldtop (Vintage Antique Gold) Overview
Gibson Custom True Historic 1956 Les Paul Goldtop (Vintage Antique Gold) overview by GAK
The Gibson Custom True Historic 1956 Les Paul Goldtop is a stunning recreation of this particularly fine vintage. A pair of P-90 pickups gives this Les Paul its distinctive tone, while period-correct plastics and design features such as its super thin wet sanded nitro finish make this an incredible authentic instrument. If you've always wanted a '50s Goldtop but don't want to keep it in a glass case, look no further than the Gibson Custom True Historic 1956 Les Paul Goldtop.
With the True Historic range, Gibson Custom commits to a fanatic level of detail accuracy to bring you as close as possible to owning an original 1956 Gibson Les Paul. A double-carved and hand-sanded top and neck, hand wet-sanded finish, hand-filed rolled fingerboard binding, and plastics replicated from molecular-level analysis of original vintage parts headline only a few of the extensive and obsessive details found in each of the very limited number of True Historic 1956 Les Pauls offered. Add a pair of superbly accurate P90 pickups. You simply can't get closer to the real thing... than the real thing.
- Top Wood: Carved Figured Maple attached with Hot Hide Glue
- Body Wood: Solid Non-Weight Relieved Mahogany
- Neck Wood: 1-Piece Mahogany Neck
- Neck Shape: 1956 Les Paul
- Fingerboard: Rosewood attached with Hot Hide Glue
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"
- Inlays: Aged Nitrocellulose Trapezoids
- Scale Length: 24.75"
- Width at Nut: 1.687
- Frets: 22
- Headstock: True Vintage Thin Head Veneer
- Pickups: 2 P-90's
- Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone and 3-way Toggleswitch
- Hardware : Nickel
- Bridge: ABR-1
- Tailpiece: Reissue lightweight aluminium
- Tuners: Reissue Kluson Deluxe Green Keys, Single Band
- Unique Features: Vintage Accurate Plastic Parts
- Case: Gibson Custom Hardshell