A Fine Light Teaburst Les Paul Standard Historic 1959 Reissue

This 12 3/4-inch-wide Les Paul Standard Historic 1959 Reissue weighs just 8.30 lbs. and has a very fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Highly figured "light teaburst" maple top with single-ply cream binding, mahogany back, one-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 medium frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and "Les Paul Model" silk-screened in gold. Individual Gibson Deluxe tuners with single-ring Keystone plastic buttons. Serial number "901171" stamped in black on the back of the headstock. Two '57 Reissue PAF humbuckers with cream plastic surrounds and outputs of 7.84k and 7.75k. Cream-colored plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout, plus three-way selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold-plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. All hardware nickel-plated. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition and is just about the closest thing you can get to an original 1959 Les Paul Standard. Complete with the "Gibson Gold Warranty booklet"; "Historic Collection" hang-tag; "Gibson Vintage Reissue Strings" hang-tag; "Gibson Custom Art Historic" hang-tag, and truss-rod adjustment tool. Housed in the original Gibson black Historic hardshell case with purple plush lining (9.50).

"The Gibson people set to work in an attempt to replicate more closely than ever the magic of an original sunburst Standard...The 'new' Reissue would have more accurate body carving, the smaller-size vintage-style headstock, a re-tooled fat neck profile, holly veneer for the headstock face with a silkscreened logo, the most attractive figured maple for the top, a slight reduction in neck pitch, proper routing of the control cavity, and early-style Tune-o-matic bridge, and the reinstatement of a longer, wider neck tenon or 'tongue' at the neck/'body joint." (Tony Bacon, 50 Years of the Gibson® Les Paul, pp. 100-101).