A meticulously crafted re-creation of an American icon.

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The Gibson Custom Shop 1956 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar will revise your idea of how an electric guitar should feel and sound. Ted McCarty's Tune-O-Matic bridge with the designateion ABR-1 was added to the Les Paul in 1956. That, together with individual saddles and thumbwheels to adjust the bridge height, represented a quantum leap forward in intonation, tone, and sustain. This beautifully crafted reissue is a letter-perfect re-creation of that landmark model.

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.

Gibson Custom 1956 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar Features:

Carved maple top
Mahogany back
Single-ply cream binding on top
Thin toggleswitch washer and jack plate
Antique Gold finish
ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge; lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece
One-piece mahogany neck with long tenon
22-fret rosewood fingerboard
Acrylic trapezoid inlays
Early-'50s rounded neck profile
24-3/4" scale length
1-11/16 nut width
Holly headstock veneer
Vintage tulip tuners
P-90 single-coil pickups
CTS pots and bumblebee capacitors
2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way selector switch
Vintage Reissue strings
Includes Custom Shop case and certificate of authenticity.

Gibson Custom 1956 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Electric Guitar Includes:

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