A 'Mint' and Totally Original 1953 Les Paul Standard Gold Top

This totally original lightweight Les Paul Standatd Gold Top weighs just 8.40 lbs. and has nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a solid carved maple top. One-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and inlaid pearl 'crown' position markers. The serial number "3 2289" is inked-on in black on the back of the headstock. The top of the guitar has a single-ply cream binding, and the fretboard has single white binding. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and "Les Paul Model" silk screened in gold. Two-layer (black on white) truss-rod cover. Individual Kluson Deluxe single-line "no-name" tuners with single-ring 'tulip' shaped Keystone plastic buttons. Two hot P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.24k and 7.49k. Single-layer cream plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus three-way selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic barrel-shape "Speed" knobs. The potentiometers are stamped "134 322" (Centralab June 1953) and there are the two original "Grey Tiger Type GT 452 .02 MFD 400 VDC" capacitors. Combination "Wrap-Over"separate stud tailpiece.

This fifty-three year old 'time-capsule' has absolutely no finish checking whatsoever and is without doubt the finest and most original example we have ever seen. There is the bare minimum of belt buckle rash on the mahogany back and a couple of very small surface marks on the neck just behind the ninth fret. Otherwise this guitar is as good as it gets - as good as you could ever wish for - a wrap-over stop-tail Les Paul (with the correct neck angle) - which plays like butter - which sounds like… in the immortal words of The Who "I Can't Explain…"

Housed in its original Gibson brown 'four-latch' hardshell case with pink plush lining (9.25). Complete with the original brown leather guitar strap and a box of Gibson ‘040’ strings.