2020 Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab ‘59 Les Paul Standard Ultra Light Aged Southern Fade

Excellent condition featuring single cutaway mahogany body, beautifully figured two piece maple top with with Southern Fade Tobacco Sunburst finish, single royalite bound top body edges, two Gibson Custombucker Alnico 3 humbucking pickups with cream colored butyrate “M69” pickup rings, two volume controls and two tone controls with gold butyrate bonnet knobs, three way pickup selector switch with cream colored replica cellulose acetate butyrate pickup selector ring and aged amber catalin switch tip, elevated laminated cellulose acetate butyrate pickguard with metal mounting bracket, Murphy aged non-wired ABR-1 bridge and lightweight aluminum stop tailpiece, set mahogany neck with single ply royalite bound rosewood fingerboard, cellulose nitrate trapezoid inlays starting at the third fret, nylon nut, Gibson open book peghead shape with black peghead face, pearl Gibson logo and gold silk screen Les Paul Model signature logo, multi-ply black and white bell shaped truss rod cover, Kluson single line tuning machines with green keystone tuner buttons, serial number ink stamped on the back of the peghead, single ply black royalite electronics and switch cavity cover plates, two aluminum strap buttons, Murphy aged nickel hardware, Murphy Labs aged nitrocellulose lacquer, original brown Lifton style Gibson hard shell case with plush pink interior and all paperwork, hangtags and original COA. This guitar weighs 9lb.

This exquisite 2020 Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab 1959 Les Paul Standard is in excellent condition. This guitar has received the Murphy Lab “Ultra Light” aging treatment and the entire instrument has finish checking throughout and aged hardware. This treatment was done exceptionally well and is quite tasteful. The finish that Gibson is using on these instruments looks astonishing and, in my opinion, is by far the most accurate they have ever come to recreating the look of the old Les Pauls. These instruments just have a very nice “brittle” quality to the finish and the colors are really incredible as well. This guitar features a medium chunky “59” style profile that is hands down one of the nicest feeling neck carves that I’ve experienced from a “new” guitar in a very long time. This isn’t a "baseball bat" sized neck and it isn’t a slim taper - it’s just right in the middle with a very sweet rounded back and exceptionally comfortable fingerboard edges. This guitar is very hard to put down! The Historic medium-jumbo fret wire on this guitar is in excellent condition and doesn’t show any play wear. This guitar was professionally set up and it plays like an absolute dream up and down the rosewood fingerboard with low smooth action and spot on intonation. The Custombucker Alnico 3 humbucking pickups sound out of this world and deliver some of the clearest, most articulate tones that I’ve heard in a while. This guitar is woody and hollow sounding and it has a very clear tone from the neck position which I find can be pretty muddy at times on some Les Pauls. Clean or overdriven, this guitar totally excels in the tone department. Also, I just want to note that this example does not have any “binding bleed” which I have seen on many R9s and several of these models as well. This instrument is housed in its original brown Gibson hard shell case for safe travels and includes its original hangtags, paperwork, metal Gibson switch cavity cover plate and its original COA. If you are looking for an absolute stunner of a Les Paul, I don't believe there’s anyway to go wrong with this instrument.