Gibson Announces Custom ‘57 LP Black Beauty Cary Apr 18th

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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