Ok, most of us will never have the kind of scratch lying around to allow us to just go out and purchase one of these, but hey– a boy can dream, right? If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is: Gibson’s new Custom 3-Pickup ’57 Les Paul Black Beauty.
Oh yeah, if this one doesn’t make you drool, you might want to check that you still have a pulse…
Seriously though, according to their website the ’57 Les Paul Black Beauty will sport a trio of vintage BurstBucker pickups — for that cool, old-school tone — an authentic Bigsby Vibrato Tailpiece (you won’t see that very often on a Les Paul,) gold-colored hardware, a solid mahogany body, and much, much more… in fact, check out these impressive specs:
The Gibson ’57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Features–
- Solid Mahogany Body With Carved Mahogany Top
- Multi-Ply Binding [top and back]
- Mahogany Neck
- Ebony Fretboard With Pearl Block Inlays
- Three BurstBucker Pickups
- Two Volume & Two Tone Controls
- 3-Way Pickup Switching
- CTS Pots/Bumble Bee Capacitors
- Bigsby Tremolo Tailpiece
- Kidney Bean Tuning Machines
- Includes: Gibson Hard Case
The ’57 Black Beauty is a dream machine if I’ve ever seen one, but then the pricetag is bound to be a different type of dream entirely… still, it’s guaranteed to be cheaper than an original ;)
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