Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s Faded Electric Guitar, Vintage Tobacco Burst

The Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s Faded is a guitar balancing vintage and modern appointments to really knock your socks off. Responsible for shaping generations of music, this model pays tribute to Gibson's Golden Era and aims to bring some of that generation's style to the modern player.

For fans of the classic Les Paul formula, this version drops in with a generous helping of time-tested appointments and design to bring that Golden Era feeling to life. This whole experience starts with a mahogany single-cutaway body fitted with a AA figured carved maple top. Balancing the warmth of the mahogany with the brightness of the maple, this Les Paul Standard delivers an excellent sonic springboard off which the rest of the experience can leap. The body is decked in a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish that is silky to the touch for a comfortable feel. Single-ply cream binding lines this guitar's top and fingerboard.

The physical form of this classic Gibson continues with a mahogany neck shaped in a 50s Vintage profile. Matching with a satin finish of its own, this vintage-style neck feels notably full in hand while staying seamlessly playable. The neck is capped with a rosewood fingerboard adorned with twenty-two familiar-feeling Medium Jumbo frets. A flatter, more modern-feeling twelve-inch fingerboard radius makes for easy bends at higher registers.

When it comes to great humbucking tonality, this Les Paul Standard is a treasure. This model is outfitted with two Gibson Burstbucker pickups wearing nickel pickup covers. Meeting their namesake with great kick and tonal warmth, these Burstbuckers play boldly and clearly to get inspired and creative with. Audio taper potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors come hand-wired to this pickup configuration to ensure high fidelity when rolling through this Les Paul's spectrum of sounds. Gold Top Hat knobs appear to add that extra element of Les Paul style.

A couple of fine hardware specifications land to tie this guitar's whole experience together. An ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge grounds strings at the base of the scale with an aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece. This balance is met at the headstock with a Graph Tech nut and six Vintage Deluxe tuning machines with Keystone buttons. Fully, this Les Paul Standard '50s is exceptionally stable for playing adventurously. That adventure keeps rolling with an included Gibson hardshell case for safe travels from gig to gig.

Capturing so much of what makes the Les Paul an iconic guitar, this version from Gibson pens another chapter in its legacy – no notes needed.

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