Electric Guitar Review

Gibson’s famous Custom Shop is at it again, having introduced a new line of historic guitars today –– dubbed the Vintage Original Spec series –– and the ’56 Les Paul Goldtop has me drooling all over myself… talk about a dream guitar…

Like the other guitars in the Vintage Original Spec (VOS) series, the ’56 Goldtop sports a new proprietary finishing process, which according to Gibson produces the gently-aged look of a truly vintage guitar, while also sporting a historically accurate neck profile, unique handcrafting for extreme playability, and of course period-correct hardware and electronics.

As is to be expected of a historically-accurate ’56 Les Paul Goldtop, this baby sports a pair of cream-colored soapbar P-90 single-coils (yum,) acrylic trapezoid inlays, and a set of those lovely vintage tulip tuning machines. Nice…

Other stand-out features include a carved top of Maple, a non-weight relieved Mahogany back, a Mahogany neck with long tenon, a Rosewood fretboard with 22 frets, dual Volume and Tone controls with gold Top Hat knobs, traditional 3-way pickup switching, and high quality CTS potentiometers with classic “Bumblebee” capacitors.

Oh yeah, and it comes with a Gibson Custom Shop case. The big question though – how much is it gonna’ cost? Gibson’s new Custom Shop VOS ’56 Les Paul Goldtop is selling for just under $4,000 at time of writing.