Sure enough, spoiler or no, Gibson yesterday unveiled this week’s addition to their Guitar Of The Week program (hey, we’re more than half way through,) and since I set out to catalog all 52 instruments, well, here it is––the Les Paul Classic Antique in Faded Cherry.
Simply put, this is one of the finest looking LPs I’ve ever come across, and truth be told, the gorgeous faded cherry finish combined with those topless humbuckers really brings to mind another of Gibson’s latest creations: the John Lennon Les Paul.
Like the other guitars in the LP Classic Antique family, this beauty was built to offer all the standard specs you’ve come to expect from a Les Paul, but with a number of vintage-style touches as well, including what is arguably the most important of them all… a pair of ‘57 Classic PAF pickups with nickel polepieces.
The guitar is expected to feature a mahogany body with mahogany top, mahogany “slim taper” neck (24 3/4” scale-length,) MOP holly headstock inlay, rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and trapezoid inlays, and single-ply binding across the board, including head, body, and neck.
Hardware comes nickel plated, and includes a traditional tune-o-matic bridge, stopbar tailpiece, “Green Key” tuning machines, amber “Top Hat” knobs, ’57 Classic humbucker at the neck, ’57 Classic Plus humbucker at the bridge, dual volume and tone controls with push/pull pots (as yet unexplained,) and 3-way pickup switching.
The Les Paul Classic Antique in Faded Cherry will of course be available in a limited run of 400 instruments––never to be offered again. Sigh. Check out Khriz’s coverage as well.
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #2 :: Les Paul Classic Antique
- EGR’s Gibson Guitar Of The Week Index
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #33 :: Les Paul Classic Antique Mahogany Top
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #14 :: Les Paul Classic Antique
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #8 :: Les Paul Antique Deluxe Gold Top
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #19 :: Les Paul Classic Antique Zebra Wood
- Gibson Giving Away A Guitar Of The Week
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #28 :: Les Paul Classic Custom W/Dual P-90s
- Spoiler Alert! Next Ten Gibson Guitar Of The Week Models
- Poll Results: “What’s Your Absolute Dream Guitar?”
- Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #35 :: ‘61 SG In Satin Antique Walnut
- Gibson Jumps The Gun, Reveals Next Twelve Guitar Of The Week Models
July 25th, 2007 at 9:58 am
It’s a really good looking guitar, I wish I had $1,700 to own one of these. :D
July 25th, 2007 at 10:38 am
I hear ya’ there––this may be the first of the GOTW guitars that I’d actually really like to own.
Just gorgeous :)
July 27th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Should be interesting. Big departure, though, without the maple top. That changes the LP sound, too.