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

This totally original lightweight Les Paul Standard Gold Top weighs just 8.10 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 2075" 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 (stamped on the inside "2356766 PAT APPLD." Two very hot P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.70k 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 "134 323" (ROC early fifties) and there are the two original "Grey Tiger Type GT 452 .02 MFD 400 VDC" capacitors. Combination "Wrap-Over"separate stud tailpiece.

This fifty-four year old 'first generation Les Paul' has no finish checking whatsoever and is without doubt one of the finest and most original examples we have ever seen. There is the bare minimum of belt buckle rash on the mahogany back and a couple of small surface marks on the top and a few very small marks on the edges and on the top edge of the headstock.