Electric Guitar Review

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 ;)