USED - Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul '57 Goldtop (60'S Neck) S#71439

As new condition including Custom shop hard case, hang tags and certificate.

This 2014 limited run example has a Version 2 style neck profile which has been hailed as one of the most comfortable neck shapes on any Les Paul ever. It is not too fat and not too thin. Interestingly, the guys at the Custom Shop suggest that the only reason it hasn't been adopted more widely as 'the perfect' neck shape is because many people purchasing a Historic Les Paul think they want a regular traditional vintage profile- anything that is modern sounding (like V2) can put some people off. However spend a couple of minutes with this neck and 90% of players will be converted!

At the direction of legendary Gibson President Ted McCarty, Gibson engineer Seth Lover began working on a pickup with hum-cancelling capabilities sometime in 1954, applying for a U.S. design patent—hence the name “Patent Applied For,” or “PAF”—on June 22, 1955. By early 1957, the standard double-coil version of the humbucker pickup had begun to appear on Gibson ES-175s and ES-350Ts, and eventually on the Les Paul Model Goldtops of the same year. 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. Vintage CTS potentiometers and bumble bee capacitors complete the deal.

To top it all off, the 1957 Les Paul Goldtop 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. Every guitar includes a Certificate of Authenticity. One of only 25 worldwide!