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Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Pro Electric Guitar with AA Maple Top

For more than five decades, the Les Paul Standard has been established as the ultimate performance instrument in terms of tone and playability and ha...Click To Read More About This Product

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A high-octane Les Paul for today' high-performance player with a special top.

For more than five decades, the Les Paul Standard has been established as the ultimate performance instrument in terms of tone and playability and has always been one of the best lookers on stage, too. Now, Gibson Custom brings the high-performance Les Paul Custom Pro, crafted with all the features of the prized original Les Paul Standards but upgraded with new performance features. Rendered with the utmost quality in craftsmanship for which Gibson's Custom Shop is known and using the finest traditional tonewoods, hardware and pickups, the Les Paul Custom Pro is a true stealth fighter in terms of versatility, hiding split-coil and phase switching within its straightforward-looking control layout, plus a useful "kill switch" for contemporary stutter effects. All this, and the Les Paul Custom Pro boasts killer looks, too, with a luscious highly-figured maple top.

As with the best Les Pauls crafted since the early '50s, the Les Paul Custom Pro starts with the legendary tonewood pairing of a solid carved maple top glued to a mahogany body, strategically channeled to enhance resonance and reduce weight. Marrying maple's clarity and definition to mahogany's richness and depth produces a tonal complexity that no single-wood guitar has ever matched, and degrees of resonance and sustain that are only further enhanced by the deep-set quarter-sawn mahogany neck with 17-degree back-angled headstock. Optimum playability is insured by a fast but comfortably rounded neck profile, and a final set up on Gibson Custom's computer controlled PLEK machine, including a PLEK-cut Corian nut. Traditional body and fingerboard binding, acrylic trapezoid fingerboard inlays, and single-ply plastic pickguard emphasize the Les Paul Custom Pro's heritage, and make the incredible versatility that lies beneath it all even more surprising.

Probe the beating heart of the Les Paul Custom Pro Electric Guitar with AA Maple Top from Gibson Custom, and you find a deceptively cunning switching array powered by two of Gibson's most impressive pickups. The BurstBucker 2 in the neck position and BurstBucker 3 in the bridge are crafted in the image of the original PAF humbuckers of the late '50s, with unpolished Alnico II magnets and unevenly wound coils for that characteristic edge and bite heard in great vintage pickups. Each pickup has been wound with four-conductor wire to enable a complex array of switching possibilities. Push-pull switches on each pickup's independent volume pot provides coil splitting for convincing single-coil sounds, while the bridge pickup's push-pull tone control provides reverse-phase switching, and the neck pickup's tone pot doubles as a useful "kill switch." Add it all up, and there's a startling array of tonal options from this straightforward-looking Les Paul. It's all anchored by the legendary pairing of a nickel-plated ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge and nickel-plated stopbar tailpiece, with high-performance kidney button Grover tuners to keep you tight and in tune.

FEATURES
  • High-grade AA maple top with one-piece mahogany back
  • Comfortable, rounded 50's neck profile
  • Powerful Burstbucker #2 and Burstbucker #3 pickups
  • Coil-tapping, phase switching and signal kill on the fly
  • Nickel Grover kidney machine heads
  • Unmounted Pickguard (included with case) exposes top's full beauty

Experience for yourself this beautiful combination of tradition and evolution. Order today.

SPECIFICATIONS
Body
  • Top: AA Maple
  • Back: Mahogany
  • Body Type: Weight Relieved
  • Binding: Cream
  • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
Neck
  • Species: Mahogany
  • Profile: Rounded
  • Truss Rod: Traditional
  • Joint Angle: 4 (+/- 15 seconds)
  • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
Neck Fit
  • Joint: Mortise & Tenon
  • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
  • Joint Angle: Tolerance +/- .005"
Fingerboard
  • Species: Rosewood
  • Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
  • Radius: 12"
  • Binding: Cream
  • Inlays: Pearloid Trapezoid
  • Nut/E.O.B: 1.687/2.062
  • Other: Reissue Fret Wire, Black Side Dots
Nut
  • Material: Corian
  • Width: 1.687
  • Slots: Gibson PLEK System
Headstock
  • Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Gibson Logo
  • Logo: Les Paul Signature
  • Truss Rod Cover: Black Antique Bell Shaped
  • Angle: 17 Degrees
Tuners
  • Model: Grover Kidney Machine Heads
  • Tuning Ratio: 14:01
  • Plating: Nickel
Bridge
  • Type: ABR-1
  • Plating: Nickel
Tailpiece
  • Type: Stop Bar
  • Plating: Nickel
Hardware
  • Knobs: Amber Top Hats with with Dial Pointers
  • Pickguard: Cream Reissue
  • Toggle Switch: Washer Cream with Gold Screenprint
  • Pickup Mounting Rings: Cream
  • Control Plate Cover: Black
  • Strings: .010 - .046, Vintage Strings
  • Strap Buttons: Aluminum
Pickups
  • Neck Position: Burstbucker II (Alnico II magnet)
  • Bridge Position: Burstbucker III (Alnico II magnet)
Electronics
  • Potentiometers: 2 Volume Controls, 2 Tone Controls
  • Type: 500k Audio-taper
  • Coil Wiring: Parallel-Machine Wound
  • Toggle Switch: Three-Way with White Toggle Cap
  • Output Jack: Traditional ¼"
Finish
  • Sealer: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Case
  • Type: Custom Shop Hardshell
  • Case Exterior: Black Pleather
  • Case Interior: Maroon Crushed Velvet

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