Gibson Les Paul ’52 60th Anniversary Goldtop 2012

Rare 2012 60th Anniversary Les Paul Goldtop. In awesome condition. One piece back!

GIBSON DESCRIPTION

To accurately recreate the unparalleled look, feel and tone of the early Les Pauls, Gibson USA crafts the Les Paul 60th Anniversary Goldtop’s body from a solid, non-weight-relieved, one-piece Grade-A mahogany blank topped with a solid, carved two-piece maple top.

The body’s weight and solidity achieve astounding sonic girth and sustain, while the classic maple-mahogany combination blends tonal warmth and depth with plenty of cut and clarity. The one-piece, Grade-A mahogany neck is carved to the thick, meaty early-’50s profile that plenty of modern players have come to love and appreciate, a constructional choice that not only yields plenty of grip in the left hand, but enhances tone considerably by transferring a greater proportion of neck resonance into the body, via the time-tested, mortise and tenon Gibson neck joint.

A Grade-A rosewood fingerboard is bound in vintage cream, with acrylic trapezoid inlays, and partnered by a vintage-cream pickguard that has been hot-stamped in gold with the “60th Anniversary” legend. As was the practice in the first year of production, the three-way pickup switch carries no plastic ring.This beautiful limited edition Les Paul pays homage to the original released upon the world back in 1952. Authentic features include the long trapeze tailpiece, no toggle switch ring & a pair of “soap bar” P90s that sound absolutely amazing! The original Brown Les Paul hardshell case with sheepskin lining is included, along with the original Gibson paperwork.

As luscious and rockin’ as the early Goldtops were, the guitars made in 1952 were shipped with what was arguably a “flaw” in their set up: a shallow neck pitch required that the new Les Paul “trapeze” bridge be loaded with the strings wrapped under the bar saddle, rather than over it. This configuration made it more challenging for players to achieve string-mute effects with the edge of the picking hand, so to give this reissue its full potential, it has a correct 5-degree neck pitch and loaded it with a properly strung wrapover trapeze tailpiece, with the strings loaded over the top of the bar to allow an easy, traditional playing feel.

Partner this solid configuration with two screaming P-90 pickups, a PLEK-cut Corian™ nut, vintage-style tuners with cream tulip keys, and the guitar’s increased body mass, and you have one roaring, sustaining, vintage-voiced Les Paul that will sound great on any stage, and turn heads in the process. Period-correct gold speed knobs atop independent volume and tone controls, with high-quality tone capacitors for a smooth, accurate roll-off, are the icing on the cake.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Tuners: Nickel Kluson Deluxe Reissues
• Nut: 1 11/16″ synthetic nut
• Neck: Mahogany neck with 24 3/4″ scale length
• Frets: 22 tall narrow frets in excellent condition
• Fingerboard: bound rosewood fingerboard with trapezoid inlays, 12″ radius
• Pickups: Two Gibson P-90
• Bridge: Wraparound bridge with trapeze tailpiece, modernised to top wrap instead of bottom wrap like the originals
• Body: Mahogany with maple cap, gold top finish