Gibson Les Paul Standard '60s Faded Electric Guitar, Vintage Cherry

Gibson Les Paul Standard '60s Faded Electric Guitar, Vintage CherryThe Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s Faded is a guitar that deals in both vintage and modern ways. Balancing a classic Les Paul aesthetic and modern, high quality design considerations, this Les Paul Standard swings for the fences to deliver a stellar musical experience. For fans lining up to see that classic Les Paul equation come to life, this version drops in with a loving dose of time tested appointments and design to bring that Gibson Golden Era

The Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s Faded is a guitar that deals in both vintage and modern ways. Balancing a classic Les Paul aesthetic and modern, high-quality design considerations, this Les Paul Standard swings for the fences to deliver a stellar musical experience.

For fans lining up to see that classic Les Paul equation come to life, this version drops in with a loving dose of time-tested appointments and design to bring that Gibson Golden Era feeling to fruition today. This whole experience starts familiarly with a mahogany single-cutaway body fitted with a beautiful AA figured carved maple top. Matching the warmth of mahogany with the brightness of maple, this Les Paul Standard delivers an excellent sonic springboard off which the rest of the experience can leap. The body is wrapped in a smooth, satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish that is silky to the touch for a comfortable connection. Single-ply cream binding lines this guitar's top and fingerboard for some accentuation of its burst finish.

The essential form of this classic Gibson continues with a mahogany neck shaped in a 60s-style SlimTaper profile. For players seeking a time-tested profile, this vintage-style neck feels streamlined and ready to play. The neck is capped with a rosewood fingerboard adorned with twenty-two articulate frets. When it comes to awesome humbucking tonality, this Les Paul Standard is a tonal treat. This model is outfitted with a pair of Gibson 60s Burstbucker pickups that summon a timeless sound. Meeting their namesake with great kick and tonal warmth, these Burstbuckers play boldly and clearly to get inspired and creative with. Audio taper potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors come hand-wired to this pickup configuration to ensure high fidelity when rolling through this Les Paul's spectrum of sounds. Gold Top Hat knobs appear with silver reflectors and dial pointers to add that extra element of Les Paul style.

A couple of quality hardware specifications land to tie this Les Paul's whole experience together. An ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge grounds strings at the base of the scale with an aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece. This balance is mirrored at the headstock with a Graph Tech nut and six Grover Rotomatic tuning machines with Kidney buttons. Fully, this Les Paul Standard 60s is exceptionally stable for playing adventurously. That adventure keeps rolling with an included Gibson hardshell case for safe travels from gig to gig.

Embodying the essence of what makes the Les Paul an icon, this exciting model from Gibson sets out for a homerun and lands it.

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• Satin-finished mahogany single-cutaway body with AA figured maple top
• Mahogany neck in 60s SlimTaper profile
• Rosewood fingerboard with twenty-two frets
• Two Gibson Burstbucker humbucking pickups
• Hand-wired audio taper and Orange Drop capacitors
• ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece
• Graph Tech nut and Grover Rotomatic tuning machines with Kidney buttons
• Gibson hardshell case included