Capped with a Rippling Root Beer Finish and Custom Shop Specs
Far from your typical vintage-style LPC, this Gibson Custom Dealer Select Les Paul Custom features a smattering of specialized features not usually available through the brand's standard offerings. Of course, the most obvious is this guitar’s top — a magnificent slab of AAA flame maple sealed with an effervescent finish. The significantly weight-relieved mahogany body sports traditional Les Paul Custom multi-stripe binding to match the top. The elegance continues on this Custom’s mahogany Modern Medium C neck, which comes crowned with a striped ebony fingerboard, mother-of-pearl block inlays, and a captivating split-diamond inlay on the headstock. Plug in to be greeted by a pair of Gibson’s Custombucker pickups — among the most lauded PAF-style re-creations in 6-string history, masterfully re-creating the clarity, dynamism, and depth of Gibson’s golden-era humbuckers. You also get a topflight arrangement of high-performing Gibson Custom hardware, including a Tune-o-matic bridge/stopbar tailpiece, Grover Kidney tuners, and black speed knobs. Custom in legacy, custom in nature, this Les Paul Custom is sure to rise to the top of your 6-string collection.
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Dealer Select guitars: curated perfection from Gibson Custom and Sweetwater
This unparalleled instrument wears the badge of Sweetwater and Gibson Custom’s Dealer Select collaboration, a prestigious program that enables us to provide our most discerning customers with custom-spec’d, limited-run Gibson Custom guitars with exclusive features and appointments. Through this initiative, Sweetwater’s guitar experts work closely with artisans from Gibson’s Custom Shops in Nashville and Bozeman, Montana, to dream up inventive and alluring variations of Gibson’s most beloved guitars. From custom finishes to from-the-ground-up tonewood transformations and beyond, our collection of Dealer Select instruments boasts a personalized touch that off-the-shelf production models simply can’t match — and you can only get them at Sweetwater!
Top-of-the-line tonewoods
Since the early 1950s, the Les Paul Custom has served as Gibson’s premier single-cut solidbody, so it is no surprise that this modern Les Paul Custom sports a world-class configuration of top-of-the-line tonewoods. This guitar’s premium AAA flame maple top sits atop a mahogany body that’s relieved for minimal weight. The result is an authoritative fundamental response with present top-end clarity. Simply put, it’s the epitome of tried-and-true Les Paul tone.
Custombucker pickups deliver vintage PAF tone
Gibson Custom paid just as much attention to this Les Paul Custom’s electronics as they did to its aesthetics. Beginning with vintage CTS potentiometers and bumblebee capacitors, every part of its internal signal path was designed to give you absolutely dead-on vintage Les Paul tone. Of course, it’s next to impossible to find genuine ’50s PAFs (even for Gibson). Instead, this Les Paul sports a pair of Gibson’s Custombucker humbuckers. The Custombucker is the most historically accurate PAF in Gibson's arsenal, so you can rest assured that this Les Paul Custom gives up no ground compared to even the most lauded vintage axes.
Performance-friendly 9-hole weight relief
The Les Paul design is revered by guitarists around the world for scores of reasons: its natural sustain, its full-bodied response, its sheer historicity, and so on. Weight is not one of those reasons. Unless you’re rocking a Junior or a Special, vintage-spec Les Pauls can clock in well above the double-digit mark, and while plenty of Sweetwater guitarists actually favor the more robust feel of a heavier 6-string, we get why guitarists performing multi-hour marathon gigs might not! Luckily, this Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom features 9-hole weight relief, cutting down on excess poundage without giving an inch when it comes to time-tested LP tone.
Gibson Custom Dealer Select Les Paul Custom Features:
- A masterfully crafted Gibson Custom Shop Dealer Select creation, teeming with features not available on the brand’s standard models
- Gorgeous AAA flame maple top treated to a handsome finish
- Mahogany body sports 9-hole weight relief to remain easy on your shoulders during long gigs
- Mahogany neck in Gibson Custom’s fan-favorite Modern Medium C profile
- Striped ebony fingerboard wears eye-catching MOP block inlays; dazzling split-diamond inlay on the headstock
- Covered zebra-coil Custombuckers take your tone back to the dawn of the legendary PAF pickup, granting superb clarity, a vast dynamic range, and remarkable depth of tone
- High-performing hardware keeps your setup stable, including a TOM bridge with stopbar tailpiece and Grover kidney-style tuning machines
- High-class Les Paul Custom features include a double-bound body with multi-stripe binding and binding that enwraps the neck from the fingerboard to the headstock
