DETAILS
Rainbow Guitars has now teamed up with the Gibson Custom Shop to bring you some of the finest guitars ever produced. These instruments with its flawless craftsmanship and new and innovative details were helped developed by us at Rainbow Guitars. With our 40 years of experience selling, playing and recording with Gibson guitars we have recently joined with the Gibson Benchmark dealers to share our ideas and expertise. These new Gibson Les Pauls are truly beyond compare and can only be found at a handful of very select dealers in the USA and Rainbow is very proud to be one.
We started by attempting to get the pickups to closely resemble the tone of what some of our favorite 1958-1960 "PAF" guitars sound like now. By under winding Gibson's new Custom Bucker pickup to a specified spec and comparing it to other guitars with original "PAF" pickups Gibson has brought back the clarity and sweet high end that everyone has been searching for. We also suggested using the TonePros long studs and posts which will give a bit more sustain to this already beautifully sounding guitar. This 1960 Les Paul has a version 2 style neck which has been called one of the most comfortable neck shapes on any Les Paul. Not too fat and not too thin. We specified the Atlanta Burst Gloss finish on this guitar to give it the timeless and classic appearance.
Along with all the new features such as 1-piece dark rosewood fingerboards, the aniline dye stained mahogany body and neck, hide-glue fitted neck and fingerboard and redesigned period correct Kluson “Deluxe” tuners Gibson Custom has delivered the new "Standard" in Les Pauls.
Serial # 0 4454
Weight 8lbs 13oz
What is a Gibson Custom Benchmark dealer, you ask? There is now a very small and exclusive group of authorized Gibson Custom dealers that happen to be experts in the field of Gibson Custom and vintage guitars. Collectively, we represent over 150 years of combined experience in the vintage and rare Gibson guitar market. We collaborate with the Gibson Custom crafts people to produce distinct and rare limited edition guitars like you see here. Rainbow Guitars is proud to be one of these rare dealers. Gibson Custom recognizes the Benchmark dealers as a unique and valuable resource by inviting us into the design process, where Gibson relies on our hands-on experience to help them create exceptional guitars based on our many years of holding and playing some of the most rare and desirable Gibson's in their long history as a company.
As a Benchmark dealer, we have direct access to the Gibson Custom factory and builders, and we hand select materials and instruments to insure the highest standards of quality. As a result, we offer a complete Gibson fan experience through a wide selection of Gibson Custom product, unsurpassed expertise and service that extends above and beyond the ordinary. These instruments are part of very limited runs that are not available outside the Benchmark circle.
FREE SETUP
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All guitar set ups are performed here at our world renowned repair facility. Our free pro setup includes your choice of strings (from our current inventory) and action spec so it will play exactly as you would expect when it arrives.