One of the Very First Les Pauls…

1952 Gibson Les Paul Standard Gold Top.

This totally original Les Paul Standard Gold Top weighs just 8.70 lbs. Solid mahogany body with a carved maple top, one-piece mahogany neck with a medium-to-thick thick profile and a nice fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with pearl crown position markers and twenty-two original frets. Two hot P-90 pickups with outputs of 8.38k and 7.58k. Combination "wrap-under" trapeze tailpiece. Overall this fifty-seven year old 'first-year' Les Paul is in totally original (8.75) excellent plus condition. This example is quite unusual in that it has an excellent neck angle - allowing for a very low string action - just like a '53. Original Gibson brown four-latch hardshell case with pink plush lining (8.00). Today, a gold-finish Les Paul model is nearly always called a gold-top thanks to its gold body face…The gold-top's solid body cleverly combined a carved maple top bonded to a mahogany base, a sandwich that united the darker tonality of mahogany with the brighter sonic 'edge' of maple. Paul said that the gold colour of the original Les Paul model was his idea. 'Gold means rich,' he said, 'expensive, the best, superb'.