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Fine art meets music in the Gibson Custom Shop '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar. In 1957, the Les Paul collection entered a new age of sound, featuring a new humbucking pickup that launched the sound heard around the world. Offering tone variations unavailable on any other Les Paul, the '57 Black Beauty is equipped with three BurstBucker pickups to offer a unique palette of vintage sound. Other features include a carved mahogany top and solid mahogany body, a one-piece mahogany neck with 22-fret ebony fingerboard, ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, 24-3/4" scale, 1-11/16" nut width, body/neck/peghead binding, and ebony finish

Gibson's Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

NOTE: optional gold Bigsby tailpiece may vary with Bigsby script over gold background or over black background.

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Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar Includes:
Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case, custom care kit, and a certificate of authenticity

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar Features:

3 BurstBuckers
Carved mahogany top and solid mahogany body
One-piece mahogany neck
22-fret ebony fretboard
ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece (optional Bigsby tremolo)
Body, neck, and headstock binding
Long neck tenon
Gold hardware
Classic ebony finish
Includes hardshell case, and certificate of authenticity

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar Specifications:

Top wood: Carved mahogany
Back wood: Solid mahogany
Binding: Multi-ply white/black on top and back
Neck construction: 1-piece mahogany
Fingerboard wood: 22 fret ebony
Inlays: Pearl block
Binding: Single-ply white
Profile: Rounded
Scale length/Nut width: 24-3/4"; 1-11/16"
Pickups: BurstBucker 1 (rhythm) and 2 (treble); BurstBucker 1 in middle position on 3 pickup configuration
Other: CTS pots and bumblebee caps
Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
Hardware color: Gold
Bridge/Tailpiece: ABR-1/Bigsby tremolo or aluminum stopbar
Other: Thin, original-style toggle switch washer and jackplate
Tuner style: Kluson vintage tulip tuners
Strings: Brite Wires .010-.046

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar Includes:

Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case, custom care kit, and a certificate of authenticity