Gibson Les Paul Custom VOS - Ebony - Bigsby

[Rabs]

Hmmm.. im so much more a fan of the silver hardware than the usual gold found on Ebony guitars... Way out of my price range (as usual) but man that's a nice looking guitar

 

http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/products/gibson_les_paul_custom_vos_ebony_bigsby.asp

The pickups are Gibson's 490R in the neck position, which offers the tonal characteristics of the original PAFs, and the 498T in the bridge position, which swaps the the 490R's Alnico II magnet for an Alnico V, thus making it slightly hotter with emphasis on mid-ranges and highs. Other appointments include Gibson-s legendary Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge, multi-ply white and black binding on both the top and back, Nickel hardware and a 1 11/16th nut width.

 

[BigKahune]

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Nice.

 

I caught this Wildwood exclusive limited run (25) of Lightly Aged Black Beauty '57 Les Paul Customs - Custom Buckers and ebony fretboard. If you're into the 'aged' looked, very cool.

 

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[jdgm]

Hmmm...nice but.....am personally more for gold and the multi-layer binding so the Wildwood has got it for me....is that weight relieved too?

[BigKahune]

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I didn't see that mentioned in the specs. The listed weights at Wildwood go from 8.7lbs to 10.19lbs. Since it's a '57 repro, I'm guessing it's solid - a guess.

 

 

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[LarryUK]

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Nice.

 

I caught this Wildwood exclusive limited run (25) of Lightly Aged Black Beauty '57 Les Paul Customs - Custom Buckers and ebony fretboard. If you're into the 'aged' looked, very cool.

 

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Rosewood board on a Custom shop? Very authentic. Yuk.

[Guest Farnsbarns]

Rosewood board on a Custom shop? Very authentic. Yuk.

 

I think Gibson are as good as done with ebony. The custom will either cease to exist or always come with something else in the very near future imho. Perhaps they'll start dying baked Mae left some people on here have...

[BigKahune]

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According to the specs, the board is ebony. With Gibson's penchant for errors in their spec sheets, that may or may not be true. And these days there's no way to tell what species of ebony is being used - some have fairly light colored variations in the graining. Without taking a look, it's a crap shoot. I looked at all the specimens over at Wildwood - overall the board wood looks to be ebony.

[badbluesplayer]

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Nice.

 

I caught this Wildwood exclusive limited run (25) of Lightly Aged Black Beauty '57 Les Paul Customs - Custom Buckers and ebony fretboard. If you're into the 'aged' looked, very cool.

 

I'm not really down with the "Lightly Aged" thing. It looks fake. It's good to see some ebony, though, even if it's only on the $5,000 guitars.

 

Hopefully their ebony quota will go up next year. :unsure:

[SteveFord]

Regarding the ebony, let's hope so.

 

Fake ageing - give me a break.

 

 

 

[capmaster]

Hmmm.. im so much more a fan of the silver hardware than the usual gold found on Ebony guitars... Way out of my price range (as usual) but man that's a nice looking guitar

 

http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/products/gibson_les_paul_custom_vos_ebony_bigsby.asp

The pickups are Gibson's 490R in the neck position, which offers the tonal characteristics of the original PAFs, and the 498T in the bridge position, which swaps the the 490R's Alnico II magnet for an Alnico V, thus making it slightly hotter with emphasis on mid-ranges and highs. Other appointments include Gibson-s legendary Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge, multi-ply white and black binding on both the top and back, Nickel hardware and a 1 11/16th nut width.

 

Interesting. The bridge is an ABR-1 to my eyes, not a Nashville, and compared to the look of the toggle switch nut, the hardware looks rather like chrome than nickel. I would like chrome over nickel, and nickel over gold though.