frettedamericana | 5 years ago

This magnificent sixty year old Les Paul Standard 'Burst' weighs just 8.70 lbs. and has nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a 'Glowing Honeyburst' bookmatched two-piece carved maple top with a quite spectacular, all-over, deep heavy flame with an almost holographic effect. The color is rich and strong and shows very little fading. One-piece mahogany neck with that oh so perfect '59 profile. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original medium jumbo frets. Inlaid pearl trapezoid (crown) position markers. Serial number inked-on in black on the back of the headstock. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and with "Les Paul Model" silk-screened in gold. Two-layer (black on white) plastic truss-rod cover with two screws and era-correct 'striations'. The top of the guitar has single-ply cream binding and the fretboard has single-ply cream binding. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with original single-ring tulip-shaped Keystone plastic buttons (stamped on the inside "D-169400 PATENT NO."). Two PAF humbucker pickups (double-white) with outputs of 8.57k and 7.96k. The cream neck pickup mounting ring is stamped on the inside "MR491" and "M-69 7" and the cream bridge pickup mounting ring is stamped on the inside "MR490" and "M-69 8." Single-layer cream plastic pickguard. Era-correct, impossibly rare 'round-cornered' jackplate. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. Era-correct 'Series ll' Rhythm/Treble switch-ring with 95% of the gold lettering remaining. The potentiometers are stamped "134 907" (Centralab February 1959). Two original "Bumble-Bee" capacitors. ABR-1 non-retainer Tune-O-Matic bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. Aside from the two exceptions listed below Freeda is still a 100% original example in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition with almost no 'weather checking' whatsoever. Housed in the original Gibson five-latch, shaped brown 'Burst' hardshell case with pink plush lining (9.25). FA stock # 02151