2011 Gibson Custom 1957 Les Paul Custom 3 Pickup Black Beauty VOS

In 1957, the Les Paul collection entered a new age of sound, featuring a new humbucking pickup that launched the sound heard around the world. This '57 Les Paul Custom is equipped with THREE BurstBucker pickups to offer a unique palette of vintage sound like no other guitar on the planet! This Black Beauty is Gibson's top-of-the-line Les Paul. This guitar is a Rock'n Roll icon and favorite among rockers like Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Marc Bolan, Billy Gibbons, Randy Rhodes and Joe Walsh, just to name a few. This guitar is the Rolls Royce of guitars and king of all the Les Pauls! The appointments are simply the best. This guitar has truly lived up to its mythology and it certainly is it's own animal! It is slightly more bassy than other Les Pauls, but the tone remains pure and remarkable with full mids and sparkling highs. It has a warm low end, deep and mellow paired with a piercing high lead voice, beautiful tone, brilliant shimmering treble and endless sustain and this guitar is a blast to play! This is truly a Rare Beauty too, weighing in very light at 8 lbs. 13 oz. The neck is nice and FAT and the TONE, WARM AND FAT!

In 2006 the Gibson Custom Shop proudly introduced the Vintage Original Spec series of historic solid body guitars. The Vintage Original Spec (VOS) series is the latest step on Gibson's journey toward perfection. When you pick up a VOS guitar, you will experience the culmination of more than 20 years of effort to give you the look, feel, and sound of a $300,000 original. They started with playability and their revolutionary process ensures precise fret work and a perfectly cut nut on every guitar. Frets are leveled, shaped, and crowned to exacting specifications - unique to each individual instrument - and will extend a bit further towards the binding, giving you more surface area. The nut is carefully hand-shaped to give it a more rounded, vintage look. The feel of the neck is just like it ought to be...FAT and together with a rolled fingerboard binding, you will experience an incredibly comfortable feel. Using a proprietary process that includes unique steps for staining, wet-sanding, and hand-rubbing gives the guitar the look and feel of a well cared for 49-year-old Standard. The hardware also goes through a new proprietary process, giving it the look you'd expect to see after decades of natural oxidation. And finally, the edges of the neck heel and peghead are softened, lending the guitar a gently worn-in appearance and comfort. You will experience an instrument that faithfully recreates the most sought-after classics - down to the smallest details.

This guitar is 100% MINT, UNPLAYED AS NEW and comes complete with the Gibson Historic Hardshell case, COA and hang tags. She's the perfect collectable for the Les Paul enthusiast looking for the unusual, but even better... She's a MOJO MAKIN' MACHINE AND A TONE MONSTER!