frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
http://www.frettedamericana.com/product/1978-gibson-les-paul-custom-2550-anniversary
This "Tobacco Sunburst" Kalamazoo made Les Paul Custom "25/50 Anniversary" model weighs 10.30 lbs. Solid mahogany body with highly flamed two-piece, book-matched carved maple top. Three-piece flamed maple neck with two walnut strips, a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. The neck has a very fast medium profile with a volute at the top. Bound ebony fretboard with original brass nut, 22 original jumbo frets and inlaid pearl split-block position markers (split into three on the first, fifth, ninth, and fifteenth frets and split into two on the seventh, twelfth and seventeenth frets) and abalone side dot inlays. Headstock face with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and pearl "Les Paul 25/50" banner. Bell-shaped brass truss-rod cover engraved "Les Paul / Anniversary". Serial number "72578083 / 038" impressed into the back of the headstock with "Made in U.S.A." below it. Individual Schaller-style "Gibson" gold-plated tuners with bell-shaped silver-metal buttons. The body of the guitar has seven-ply binding on top and five-ply binding on bottom, the headstock has five-ply binding, and the neck is single-bound. Two Gibson Series Vll humbucker pickups with outputs of 7.90k and 8.27k. with black plastic surrounds. Five-layer black over white plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) and two-way coil tapping switch on lower treble bout plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. The potentiometers are stamped "137 7824" and "137 7828" (CTS June and July 1978). Black plastic barrel-shaped 'speed' knobs. Nashville-style ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge and separate TP-6 fine tuning stud tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with only a few miniscule belt buckle marks on the back. Housed in the original Gibson black 'Protector' hardshell case with maroon plush lining with one catch broken (8.50).
