Gibson Custom Murphy Lab '59 Les Paul Standard | Dirty Lemon Burst Light Aged

The Gibson Custom Shop team make some of the most historically accurate, inspiring, and best playing guitars on the market today. Theyve spent decades refining their craft and are true master luthiers. Within Gibson Custom, theres a special division called The Murphy Lab. This division is dedicated to ageing instruments so they look and feel exactly like vintage golden-era guitars. The Murphy Lab team is headed up by legendary Gibson employee Tom Murphy, who has crafted some of the best-looking relics weve ever seen.

This Les Paul features a mahogany body alongside a beautiful figured maple top. We have a very strong relationship with the Gibson Custom Shop team, so we regularly fly out to the factory to personally select wood for use on our guitars. The nitrocellulose finish has been lightly aged by the Murphy Lab team, it really does look and feel just like a vintage 59 Les Paul. Its got a nice broken in feel, so you can take this one out to a gig or hit the studio right away!

The solid Mahogany neck is topped with a crisp Indian Rosewood fingerboard with classic Gibson Trapezoid inlays, this guitar looks every bit the real deal. With a 24.75" scale length, 12" radius, 1.687" nut width and medium jumbo frets, it retains that classic Les Paul feel. The ABR-1 bridge and light weight stopbar offer an authentic vintage vibe.

The defining feature of the Gibson Custom '59 Les Paul is the custom wound Gibson Custom Bucker Alnico 3 pickups. According to Gibson these are some of the most historically accurate PAF clones on the market, with an ultra-rich harmonic quality; it's as close as you can get to the classic Les Paul tone.