Gibson Custom ’57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar

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The choice of many star performers.

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 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, Custom Care Kit, 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
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Black Beauty is one beautiful beauty!

This guitar is probably the best guitar I possibly own. It has great classic Gibson pickups, very versatile with virtually all effects, The neck is very good, and the sound is very classical on bypass. The value of this however could be dropped, I have found this same guitar for $3,999. But, it was a rare find. So, it is worth it for this price.

Reviewed by BCRich on 5/23/2007 who plays All forms of metal, Jazz, and Punk..

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wow

Wow all i gotta say. This is one amazing guitar. Ive been playing for over 20 years and own many gibson customs. But this guitar was worth every dollar i put init. It looks amazing as well.

Reviewed by Alex on 7/24/2008 who plays Rock, Blues.

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Dream Guitar

The Gibson Custom Shop 57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar with Bigsby Gold Hardware is my dram guitar. With the three burstbucker pickups, it has to be amazing. I swear that i shall one day purchase this guitar and then perhaps write another review.

Reviewed by Mizikey on 3/13/2007 who plays Rock and Metal.

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