One of the Last of the Slab-Bodied "Les Paul" TV Specials.

1960 Gibson "Les Paul" TV Special.

One of the last of the slab-bodied "Les Paul" TV Specials! This featherweight guitar weighs just 6.90 lbs. Solid mahogany body, medium-to-thin profile one-piece mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard with twenty-two jumbo frets. Two P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.98k and 8.18k. Combination "wrap-over" bar bridge/stud tailpiece. A totally original and near mint example of this very rare guitar. Housed in its original Gibson brown "alligator" softshell case. "The double cutaway Special was listed as a Les Paul for less than a year… in the Nov. '59 price list the model appeared as the SG Special. The specs remained the same save for the removal of Les Paul markings on the headstock and the installation of an enlarged one-piece guard covering the area between the front pickup and the fingerboard. The Gibson shipping records show that a total of 3,208 Les Paul Specials were shipped between 1959 and 1960 but this number includes both the TV and the regular Cherry finish. The actual number of TV models would have been relatively small.