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Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s - Gold Top

$2,799.00 $2,379.25 Sale

Some instruments don't just make history — they bend spacetime. The Interstellar Tone Traveler locked onto the Gibson USA Les Paul Standard 50's Gold Top like a beacon from rock 'n' roll's golden age — and the signal hasn't faded a single watt. Finished in luminous Gold Top over a carved maple cap, it shines like a rising sun over a 1950s horizon, crowning a solid non-weight-relieved mahogany body that is dense, resonant, and unapologetically powerful. The 50's Vintage neck profile fills the hand with reassuring substance — commanding for rhythm work, expressive for lead lines — with a glued-in set neck delivering seamless sustain into a bound rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and classic trapezoid inlays that capture the unmistakable aesthetic that launched generations of electric design.

Where the P-90 Gold Top snarls and bites, this one sings. Loaded with a Burstbucker 1 in the neck and a Burstbucker 2 in the bridge — each armed with Alnico 2 magnets — this Gold Top channels the vocal midrange, shimmering highs, and articulate lows that made early humbuckers legendary. Hand-wired controls with Orange Drop® capacitors deliver remarkable responsiveness across the full dynamic range: roll it back for warm, nebula-like cleans, open it up for raw solar-flare saturation. Weighing in at 9 lbs 15 oz, this Les Paul carries the mass and authority of a true classic, arriving in a Gibson hardshell case ready for transport across stages, studios, and galaxies. The Les Paul didn't just join the story of rock — it wrote it. Plug in. Strike a chord. Ignite the atmosphere.

Model: Les Paul Standard 50's
Body Construction: Solid
Body: Mahogany
Body Top: Maple
Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose 
Body Binding: Cream 
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay: Acrylic Trapezoid
Nut: Graph Tech, 1.69"" 
Neck Profile: 50's Vintage
Neck Joint: Glued in, Set Neck
Frets: Medium Jumbo
Truss Rod: Fully Adjustable
Radius: 12"
Fingerboard Binding: Cream
Scale Length: 24.75"
Bridge Pickup: Burstbucker 2, 
Neck Pickup: Burstbucker 1, 
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, Hand Wired with Orange Drop Capacitors
Pickup Selector: 3-Way Toggle
Outpuck Jack: 1/4" 
Bridge: ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic 
Tailpiece: Aluminum Stop Bar
Hardware Color: Nickel
Pickup Covers:  Nickel
Switchwasher: Cream
Pickguard: Cream
Truss Rod Cover: Authentic Stepped 2-Ply 
Switch Tip: Amber Catalin 
Tuning Machines: Vintage Deluxe with Keystone Buttons
Mounting Rings:  Cream 
Control Covers: Black
Weight: 9lbs 15oz.
Case: Gibson Hardshell  
String Gauge: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046
Accessories: Gibson Accessory Kit 

 


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