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From the graceful Venetian cutaway to pearl and abalone inlays on an inky ebony fretboard, this awesome archtop is truly a sight to behold. Features a gold-plated, individually fingered jazz tailpiece and a fully adjustable saddle with a pearl-inlaid ebony bridge base. The BJB floating pickup with gold cover is mounted to the pickguard rather than the neck for a smooth, mellow tone without feedback. The sleek, lightweight peghead design results in a remarkably well-balanced instrument. These appointments, coupled with unbelievably lush and sophisticated tone, make this among the finest production carved tops available.

Gibson Custom Le Grande Electric Guitar Features:

• Carved Sitka spruce top
• Solid figured maple back and sides
• Three-piece figured maple neck
• BJB floating pickup with gold cover
• Multi-ply binding on top, back, neck, and peghead
• Gold hardware
• Tortoise shell pickguard

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Signed by Captain Fingers.

Once in a generation, a jazz guitarist comes along, who-no matter what music style you're a fan of-makes you sit up and take notice. That player is Lee Ritenour. Lee's signature sound is Gibson. Nominated for a GRAMMY 17 times, you don't get to his level without knowing your chops. And knowing your guitar! Lee's guitar is a Gibson ES-335.

To celebrate this long-term relationship with Lee, Gibson has announced the availability of a special limited run Lee Ritenour signature model. A production run of only 50 guitars personally autographed by Lee, and 100 unsigned versions will be made for world-wide distribution!

The guitar is a Gibson ES-335-without question, the most flexible application instrument in the Gibson line up. No matter whether you play rock, country, blues, pop, or jazz, the ES-335 does it and does it well.

Let's start with the 335. This guitar's famous multi-ply maple body utilizes a soft maple center block for added sustain and tone, and reduced feedback. The pickups are Gibson's '57 Classics-Gibson's most popular pickup. The neck is one-piece mahogany, with a thin, Lee Ritenour profile that's faster and more tapered than other production ES-335 models. Nickel Nashville Tune-o-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece are the same as the 335s of the '60s. The machine heads are nickel Grovers with kidney buttons. All of the nickel hardware is slightly aged for that played-in look and feel.

The finish is a gorgeous VOS (Vintage Original Spec) antique faded cherry with a super thin, nitrocellulose lacquer in a soft patina. The Lee Ritenour Aged and Signed ES-335 is aged by the Gibson Custom Shop artisans with the lacquer checking, dings, and a few other sweet features to more meticulously re-create Lee Ritenour's original axe. The guitar includes a custom formfitting signature case, instrument care kit, and a special "Inspired By" Certificate of Authenticity.

Gibson Custom Lee Ritenour Aged and Signed ES-335 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar Features:

• Body: Multi-ply maple top, back, rims
• Neck: One-piece mahogany, custom Lee Ritenour thin profile
• Fingerboard: Hand-selected rosewood, 24-3/4" scale
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Pickups: 2 Gibson '57 Classics with nickel covers
• Tuners: Nickel Grovers with kidney buttons
• Bridge/tailpiece: Nashville Tone-O-Matic with stopbar
• Production: 50 signed, 100 unsigned for world-wide distribution
• Includes: Custom formfitting signature case, instrument care kit, Certificate of Authenticity

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The signature axe of Captain Fingers himself.

One of the world's leading jazz guitarists and winner of 17 GRAMMY nominations, Lee Ritenour was heavily influenced by contemporary jazz styles of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Barney Kessel. He was a sought after sessions player in the mid '70s and now has his own distinctive sound & fluid style. The Gibson Custom Shop Lee Ritenour ES-335 is a recreation of his original guitar.

Featuring a mahogany set neck and excellent vintage humbucker tone thanks to Gibson's excellent '57 Classic pickups, the Lee Ritenour ES-335 is a jazz player's dream. The Gibson Custom Shop's incredible VOS (Vintage Original Spec) treatment practically turns this electric guitar into a time machine.

Includes Lee Ritenour Custom Shop guitar case and certificate of authenticity.

The Custom Shop Difference
Passion.
It burns in the heart of every player who purchases a Gibson Custom Shop guitar... and it burns in the heart of every employee who helps build these world-class musical instruments. Gibson vows to continue infusing every instrument that passes through their doors with that same passion. From initial wood selection to final assembly, they sweat the details so that when you pick up your guitar, your dream, it exceeds every expectation you could possibly have. Pick one up for yourself. Feel the passion Gibson puts into their guitars and release yours.

Gibson Custom Lee Ritenour VOS ES-335 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar Features:

• Body Wood: Laminate
• Top wood: Laminate
• Scale Length: 24-3/4"
• Neck Joint: Set-in
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1 - 11/16"
• Fretboard Radius: 12"
• Bridge: Fixed
• Pickup Bridge: '57 Classic
• Pickup Neck: '57 Classic
• Controls: Volume / Volume / Tone / Tone
• Tuners: Schaller
• Hardware color: Nickel
• Pickup selector: 3-way
• Finish: Lacquer
• With case: Hardshell

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The ultimate player's guitar with optimum playability, maximum access, and unparalleled tone.

The Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard is an electric guitar that carries all the elegant styling, fluid body lines, and rocking attitude of a classic Les Paul Standard from the golden era of 1958 to '60. The Les Paul Axcess reveals a handful of upgrades upon closer examination — all modifications made in the name of maximum playability and versatility. The most noticeable addition is the Floyd Rose tailpiece, a unit optimized for anything from subtle vibrato wobbles to dramatic, rumbling divebombs. Partnered with an R4 locking nut, it also guarantees outstanding tuning stability and return-to-pitch accuracy.

While the Axcess guitar sports what looks from the front to be a traditional Les Paul neck joint, the neck heel and portions of the back and neck joint at the upper cutaway have been contoured to provide a "heelless" feel and an unimpeded reach right up to the 22nd fret. No more stretching against the traditional neck heel to achieve the upper-fret access that your lead style demands — the Axcess guitar gives you that legendary Les Paul playability all the way up the neck, and welcomes you to take it right over the top.

To further enhance playing comfort, this smoothly carved neck joint is joined by a "belly scarf" (a.k.a. ribcage contour) that allows the body of the guitar to hug closely to your own body in the playing position without digging in. Add to these contours the Les Paul Axcess guitar's slightly thinner body, made from weight-relieved mahogany (with carved maple top), and you've also got a Les Paul guitar that is refreshingly light, and a pure joy to play either strapped on or seated.

Beyond all these significant considerations for playing feel, the Les Paul Axcess Standard is also geared toward optimum tone, as you'd expect from any Gibson Custom Shop creation. Exposed-coil BurstBucker 1 and BurstBucker 2 pickups in the neck and bridge positions — the most accurate reproduction vintage-PAF-style humbucker pickups Gibson has ever offered ‐ yield everything from warm, fluid vocal tones to fat, sweet growl. An added push/pull switch on the treble tone knob provides coil splitting for accurate single-coil tones. The combination excels at everything from singing classic rock lead tones, to contemporary crunch, to extremes of twang and jangle. Even the pure-nickel wound .010 Gibson Vintage Strings the Axcess guitar ships with contribute toward its rich, textured voice.

Being a product of the Gibson Custom Shop, the Les Paul Axcess is a guitar built to the highest standards attainable, which include a final set-up and fret dressing by the computer-controlled PLEK System. Each Gibson Les Paul Axcess Standard guitar also comes with a Custom Shop hardshell case and a Certificate of Authenticity.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Axcess Standard Electric Guitar Features:

• Body
• Body Style: Les Paul
• Body: Weight Relieved Mahogany Back with Belly Scarf
• Top: Carved Maple
  
  Neck
• Neck: 1-piece Set Mahogany
• Neck Profile: Rounded Neck Profile with Contoured Heel Cut
• Peghead Pitch: 17 Degrees
• Neck Joint Location: 19th Fret
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Scale Length: 24-3/4"
• No. Of Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Neck Inlays: Pearloid Trapezoid
  
  Hardware: Chrome
• Bridge: Floyd Rose Tremelo
• Knobs: Gold
• Tuners: Kluson
  
  Electronics
• Neck Pickup: Burstbucker 1
• Bridge Pickup: Burstbucker 2
• Controls: Two Volume, Two Tone, 3-Way Toggle Pickup Selector
  
  Finish: Gun Metal Grey
• Case: Custom Shop hardshell

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Incredibly deep top figuring!

The figuring on this Gibson Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top looks like the bottom of storm clouds just before a tornado. The brilliant red finish is highlighted by gold transparent top hat knobs, nickel hardware, and a perfectly fashioned bound rosewood fretboard. The electric guitar has loads of natural sustain from the weight-relieved mahogany back and set mahogany neck with long tenon is accentuated by the Gibson Burstbuckers.

Gibson's Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent Features:

• Highly quilted, carved maple top
• Weight-relieved mahogany back
• One-piece mahogany neck with long tenon
• Bound rosewood fretboard
• BurstBucker 2 at the neck
• BurstBucker 3 at the bridge
• Independent volume and tone knobs
• 3-way toggle
• Bound top
• Vintage tulip tuners
• 24-34" scale length
• 1-11/16" nut width

Gibson Custom Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent Includes:

• hardshell case

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The round tone of a mahogany top and an eye-popping finish.

The Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar features all-mahogany construction for a powerful sound. The top, back and long-neck tenon all deliver full, warm mahogany tone. In addition to the uncommonly sweet candy apple red finish, this Les Paul guitar sports a hard-to-find '60s slim neck profile. An ABR1 bridge and BurstBucker pickups (BB2 bridge position, BB1 neck position) add to the mix for great tone and sustain. The ebony fingerboard, Gibson Deluxe tulip tuning machines, and gold hardware are the finishing touches on this Gibson Custom Les Paul beauty.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom All Mahogany Electric Guitar Features:

• All mahogany construction
• Long neck tenon
• '60s slim neck profile
• Burstbucker pickups
• ABR1 bridge
• Ebony fingerboard
• Tulip tuning machines
• Gold hardware

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The round tone of a mahogany top and 3 Burstbucker pickups with an eye-popping finish.

This Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar features all-mahogany construction. The top, back and long-neck tenon all deliver full, warm mahogany tone. In addition to the impressive firepower of 3 Burstbucker pickups, this triple pickup Les Paul guitar sports a hard-to-find '60s slim neck profile. The Silverburst finish, ebony fingerboard, Gibson Deluxe tulip tuning machines, and nickel hardware are the finishing touches on this beauty from the Gibson Custom Shop.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom All Mahogany Triple Pickup Electric Guitar Features:

• All mahogany construction
• Long-neck tenon
• '60s slim neck profile
• Burstbucker pickups (BB2 bridge and middle position, BB1 neck position)
• ABR1 bridge
• Ebony fingerboard
• Tulip tuning machines
• Nickel hardware

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Limited edition Black Beauty with uncovered pickups.

The Les Paul Custom has long been a favorite of players and collectors. The pinnacle of guitar elegance and beauty, this limited edition Custom features the trademark split diamond headstock inlay and lavishly bound body, chrome hardware, and 490R/498T humbuckers that are uncovered to reveal black bobbins.

Gibson's Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibson guitars of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Features:

• Carved maple top
• Weight-relieved mahogany back
• Multi-ply white/black binding on top and back
• 22-fret ebony fingerboard
• Rounded neck profile
• Pearl block inlays
• Single-ply neck binding
• Metal tulip tuners
• 490R/498T humbucker pickups
• Nashville TOM/Stopbar tailpiece
• 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
• Chrome hardware
• ABR-1 bridge with stopbar tailpiece

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Includes:

• hardshell case

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All the incredible tone and playability with some extra eye candy.

This figured top beauty brings you all the incredible qualities you expect in a genuine Les Paul guitar from the Gibson Custom Shop. You get the one piece mahogany neck, warm-toned mahogany body, and an ebony fingerboard for bright attack. This electric guitar's carved top is breathtaking figured maple. This Les Paul Custom guitar's inlays are a tribute to the classic Gibson Super 400-a much loved archtop electric that sported eye-catching split block fingerboard inlays. 496R and 498T Gibson humbucker pickups deliver warm rhythm and hot, solid lead sounds. Gibson includes a Tune-O-Matic bridge, stopbar tailpiece, and bound body, neck, and head with gold hardware on this Les Paul custom.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Figured Top Electric Guitar with Super 400 Inlays Features:

• Body Type: Les Paul
• Body Wood: Mahogany
• Top wood: Flame Maple
• Scale Length: 24-3/4"
• Neck Joint: Set-in
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Fretboard: Ebony
• Neck Shape: C-Shape
• Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Fretboard Radius: 12
• Bridge: Tune-O-Matic, stopbar tailpiece
• Pickup Bridge: 498T
• Pickup Neck: 496R
• Controls: Volume / Volume / Tone / Tone
• Tuners: Grover
• Hardware color: Gold
• Pickup selector: 3-way
• Finish: Lacquer

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Figured Top Electric Guitar with Super 400 Inlays Includes:

• hardshell case

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The feel and look of a comfortable workhorse guitar.

This Les Paul Plain Top Electric Guitar has all the time-honored qualities you expect from a genuine LP out of the Gibson Custom Shop: one piece mahogany neck and warm-toned mahogany body-the natural finished plain top is complemented with a maple fretboard and is contrasted by black pickguard, knobs, and pickup rings. 490R and 498T Gibson humbucker pickups deliver warm rhythm and hot, solid lead sounds. Binding on the body, C-shaped neck, and headstock. Gold tuners add a touch of class to this Les Paul Custom guitar.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Natural Finish Electric Guitar with Maple Fretboard Features:

• Body Wood: Mahogany
• Top wood: with Maple
• Scale Length: 24-3/4"
• Neck Joint: Set-in
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Fretboard: Maple
• Neck Shape: C-Shape
• Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Fretboard Radius: 12
• Bridge: Fixed
• Pickup Bridge: 498T
• Pickup Neck: 490R
• Controls: Volume / Volume / Tone / Tone
• Tuners: Grover
• Hardware color: Gold
• Pickup selector: 3-way
• Finish: Lacquer

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Natural Finish Electric Guitar with Maple Fretboard Includes:

• Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case

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The Les Paul Custom has long been a favorite of players and collectors. Featuring the trademark split diamond headstock inlay and lavishly bound body, this Custom Collection version is a limited edition with a Premium Grade Flame Maple Top with a Cherry Sunburst finish. The pinnacle of guitar elegance and beauty. Includes hardshell guitar case.

Gibson's Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibson guitars of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Premium Grade Flame Top Electric Guitar Features:

• Premium Grade Flame Maple Top
• Cherry Sunburst Finish
• Mahogany body wood
• Multi-ply white/black binding on top and back
• 1-piece solid mahogany neck with long tenon
• 22-fret ebony fingerboard
• Rounded neck profile
• Pearl block inlays
• Single-ply neck binding
• Kidney bean tuners
• 57 Classic humbucker pickups
• 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
• Gold hardware
• ABR-1 bridge with stopbar tailpiece

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A crucial chapter in the LP legacy.

A meticulous re-creation of a legendary guitar, the Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul SG Standard Electric Guitar is back with historically accurate appointments including heel shape, holly peg veneer, tapered peghead, and vintage body shape and scarfing.

Gibson Custom Les Paul SG Custom Maestro Features:

• Beveled thin mahogany body
• Mahogany neck
• Neck binding
• Gold hardware
• ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with short Maestro tailpiece
• 3 '57 Classics pickups
• Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
• Bound ebony fingerboard with pearloid trapezoid inlays
• Historically accurate body shape and appointments

Gibson Custom Les Paul SG Custom Maestro Includes:

• hardshell case

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1983 was a year of change for Gibson, when it first began to concentrate on reissuing vintage spec instruments. While we're all vintage-crazy now, this was a fairly new idea then. They knew that to get the necessary attention, they would have to do something special. The Spotlight was the answer. Using contrasting, figured woods, Gibson's Les Paul Spotlight guitars did indeed cause a lot of players to give them a second look.

Gibson now brings back the Spotlight in beautiful flame maple, with all the vintage features you love: C-shaped mahogany set neck and mahogany body, '57 Classic Humbucker pickups, Grover tuners, gold hardware and a sweet lacquer finish.

Gibson Custom Les Paul Spotlight Flame Electric Guitar Features:

• Body Wood: Mahogany
• Top wood: Maple
• Scale Length: 32-3/4"
• Neck Joint: Set-in
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Neck Shape: C-Shape
• Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Fretboard Radius: 12
• Bridge: Fixed
• Pickup Bridge: '57 Classic Humbucker
• Pickup Neck: '57 Classic Humbucker
• Controls: Volume / Volume / Tone / Tone
• Tuners: Grover
• Hardware color: Gold
• Pickup selector: 3-way
• Finish: Lacquer

Gibson Custom Les Paul Spotlight Flame Electric Guitar Includes:

• Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case

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This Limited Edition Les Paul Custom Goldtop is Custom Shop crafted to be accurate to '57 specifications. The '57 was the first Les Paul to feature humbucking pickups. The Custom 50th Anniversary comes equipped with a 490R in the neck position for a traditional tone, and a 498T Alnico 5 in the bridge position with enhanced mids and highs to let it rock out. The '57 Custom also featured a carved maple top, mahogany back, and one-piece mahogany neck with rounded '50's neck profile, multi-ply black and white binding on top, gold hardware, pearl block fingerboard inlays, and an original ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge. The Anniversary Goldtop edition has additional upscale appointments such as the antique gold finish is on the top, back and neck, an engraved gold-plated 50th Anniversary headstock veneer, a gold-plated truss rod cover,and a 50th Anniversary Certificate of Authenticity.

Gibson Custom Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Les Paul Standard Goldtop Electric Guitar Features:

• Top: carved maple
• Back: mahogany
• Binding: multi-ply black/white on top
• Neck: mahogany w/long neck tenon
• Neck profile: early 50s rounded
• Headstock overlay: engraved gold-plated 50th anniversary
• Peghead pitch: 17 degrees
• Neck joint location: 16th fret
• Fingerboard: ebony
• Scale length: 24-3/4"
• No. of frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Inlays: pearl block on neck
• Hardware: gold
• Fingerboard inlay: antique
• Tailpiece: lightweight aluminum stopbar
• Bridge: ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
• Knobs: gold top hat
• Tuners: gold Grover
• Neck pickup: 490R
• Bridge pickup: 498T
• Controls: two volume, two tone
• Switch: 3-way toggle
• Finish: Lacquer Antique gold

Gibson Custom Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Les Paul Standard Goldtop Electric Guitar Includes:

• hardshell case

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Custom Shop, Only 100 made, custom inlay fingerboard, wooden pickup mounting rings and wooden pickguard.

The Limited Edition Custom Les Paul 25 from the Gibson Custom Shop has a combination of features you won't find in any standard issue electric guitar. Hand-picked flame maple forms the top. The ebony fretboard has a custom split block inlay-each block alternates between double and single split lines. Somehow, it makes this guitar look fast! Look closely and you'll discover another rarity: the pickups have real wooden mounting rings and the 25 guitar also sports a wooden pickguard. Combined with the Gibson Custom Shop's peerless craftsmanship, this is an Les Paul Guitar that qualifies as a museum piece in the luthier's hall of fame.

You'll find everything you love about the Les Paul in this electric guitar: the resonant, mahogany body and set, C-shaped mahogany neck, killer '57 Classic humbucker pickups at both the bridge and neck and the sweet, glowing lacquer finish and gold hardware. What you won't find is very many of these. This Custom 25 is being limited to a run of just 100 guitars!

Gibson Custom Limited Edition Les Paul Custom 25 Electric Guitar Features:

• Custom split block inlay
• Wooden pickup rings
• Wooden pickguard
• Body Type: Les Paul
• Body Wood: Mahogany
• Top wood: Flame maple
• Scale Length: 24-3/4"
• Neck Joint: Set-in
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Fretboard: Ebony
• Neck Shape: C-Shape
• # frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1.695"
• Fretboard Radius: 12
• Bridge: Fixed
• Pickup Bridge: '57 Classic
• Pickup Neck: '57 Classic
• Controls: Volume/Volume Tone/Tone
• Tuners: Grover
• Hardware color: Gold
• Pickup selector: 3-way w/coil tap switch
• Finish: Lacquer

Gibson Custom Limited Edition Les Paul Custom 25 Electric Guitar Includes:

• hardshell case

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