A Beautifully Relic'd Jimmy Page Custom Authentic With '59 PAF's

This one-of-a-kind Les Paul Jimmy Page guitar weighs just 8.80 lbs. and has a nice fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Just like Jimmy Page's original '59 guitar, the neck is thick at the nut and at the neck heel, like a typical 1959 Les Paul, but it tapers to a super-slim depth in the middle. Solid mahogany body with the wildest 'tiger-stripe' two-piece carved maple top with single-ply cream binding. One-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Inlaid pearl "Gibson" headstock logo and "Les Paul Model" silkscreened in gold. Two-layer black on white plastic truss rod cover. Serial number "JPP 827" inked-on in black on the back of the headstock. Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with half-moon metal buttons. Two fantastically resonant original circa 1959 double-black PAF humbucker pickups with cream-colored plastic surrounds and outputs of 7.74k and 8.62k (each with the rectangular black label on the underside "Patent Applied For"). The neck pickup with the original nickel cover (re-soldered), the bridge pickup exposed. Cream-colored plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch and two-way coil-tapping switch on the bridge pickup tone control. Gold-plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. All hardware nickel-plated. Housed in the original Gibson custom black hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.50).

This perfectly balanced, ideal weight Jimmy Page Gibson Custom, Art & Historic guitar serial number "JPP 827" was shipped on "8/18/06" and is complete with the original "Certificate of Authenticity", "Gibson Gold Warranty" booklet (with checklist date), various hang-tags and the original truss-rod adjustment wrench. This guitar was purchased new and sent to Illinois Master Luthier, Terry Mueller, who removed the two standard humbuckers (included in case) and fitted the pair of original '59 double-black PAF's. Terry then carefully aged and relic'd the whole of the guitar… the result is quite astounding. We have had many professional players try this one out, the concensus of opinion is unanimous… "One of the best sounding, best looking, best playing Les Paul's EVER!"

The Gibson Custom, Art & Historic Certificate of Authenticity has been additionally inscribed… "Factory pickups removed and replaced with two original '59 double black PAF humbuckers. Body and neck aged and relic'd to period. Terry Mueller 01/05/07"

This guitar "replicates the unique neck shape and custom electronics of Page's favorite guitar. "Les Paul #1," as the Rock Hall of Famer calls his personal guitar, is a 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul that he bought from Joe Walsh in the early 1970's. The neck of Page's guitar is thick at the nut and at the neck heel, like a typical 1959 Les Paul, but it tapers to a super-slim depth in the middle. It was that way when Page acquired it, and he hasn't changed it. He did make two other modifications: He put a push/pull pot in the rear volume control that reverses the phase, in order to get a tone like Peter Green or B.B. King. And he replaced the tuners with sealed, gold plated Grovers to achieve the exact tuning and sensitivity of the Les Paul Custom he had been playing with Led Zeppelin".
(New Gibson replicates Jimmy Page's "Les Paul #1"
http://www.gibson.com/Whatsnew/pressrelease/2004/feb9a.html)