Lightweight With A Heavy Sound – Gibson Debuts New Les Paul Vixen Cary Feb 27th

Gibson introduced a whopping 15 new guitars at NAMM this year, and at the top of the list were a number of instruments aimed squarely at the female guitarists out there.

To their credit, Gibson doesn’t seem to have scrimped on these beauties, and for the most part you get a lighter, smaller, and easier-to-handle version of the standard Gibson classics they’re based on.

Take the new Les Paul Vixen – it’s got the smooth but throaty 490R & 498T humbuckers that give its brethren so much of their famous tone, but in this case these powerhouse pickups are wired into a lighter-weight, and significantly slimmer mahogany body, presumably making for an instrument with all the power of a Les Paul, but built for the female form.

The Gibson Les Paul Vixen Features–

• Mahogany Body
• Mahogany Slim-Taper Neck
• Rosewood Fingerboard With 22 Frets
• Diamond Fingerboard Inlays
• 490R Humbucker (Neck)
• 498T Humbucker (Bridge)
• One Volume & Tone Control
• 3-Way Pickup Switching
• Grover Tuners
• Chrome Hardware

The guitar comes a number of new finishes, including Corona Yellow, Caribean Blue, Coral (shown above,) Ebony, and Red.

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