Now you can have your cake and eat it too! The 1958-60 Gibson Les Paul Reissues with the flame maple sunburst tops are easily the most sought after guitars on the planet, due to the rarity of the wood, their beauty and the beautiful tone that they produce. These guitars are also the most expensive guitars for the same reasons. But now there is an even rarer guitar, and this is it! This extremely limited 2010 Gibson Custom Shop 1957 Reissue Les Paul Standard with a figured maple top and a faded Ice Tea Gloss finish is the holy grail of guitars for half the price! The gloss finish is beautiful, desired and vintage correct. This guitar is PERFECT AND POLISHED, just like back in 1957. This guitar has a beautifully book-matched birdseye Maple top with lots of flecking in the grain. This guitar will give you all the sweetness and warmth of an R-9 PLUS the big fat sound and power of an R-7. This guitar is light weight too, weighing 8 lbs 15 ozs! This guitar is light on your back and super resonate! This kind of Maple is lightweight, very hard in texture and reflective, capturing stress in the grain and producing a loud, powerful projective sound with incredible sustain and the ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish allows the instrument to breathe giving that woody tone. It also allows movement for optimum acoustic resonance. This guitar is a TONE MONSTER! It's got the sweetness AND the roar!