Gibson Custom Ace Frehley Budokan Les Paul Custom Hand-Aged Electric Guitar Heritage Cherry Sunburst

Gibson's Custom Shop offers a faithfully recreated Les Paul Custom as played by legendary Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley.




When KISS hit the stage at Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1977 with
guitarist Ace Frehley behind a Cherry Sunburst, three-pickup 1974 Les
Paul Custom, the entire package—band, guitarist, guitar—embodied the
height of glam-rock excess and success for the ’70s. This was the
ultimate marriage of pop and heavy rock, driven to meteoric heights by
the record industry marketing machine, and ultimately attaining that
otherworldly presence that great stadium rock should achieve: unbridled
fantasy and party-hard reality rolled into one glorious explosion. In
celebration of Ace Frehley’s unquestionable status as a rock icon, and
the epitome of glam-rock stardom that KISS represented at this
crystalline moment in time in 1977, Gibson Custom proudly announces the
release of the Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul Custom, produced in a
strictly Limited Edition of 100 hand-aged guitars. Offering everything
you’ve come to expect from Gibson Custom’s artist replica guitars, the
Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul Custom is a painstaking recreation of
Frehley’s modified Les Paul Custom, based on intimate examination of the
instrument’s current condition.

The Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul Custom has been created with close
cooperation between Gibson Custom, Ace Frehley and the guitar’s current
owner, Matt Swanson. Digital scanning technology was used to capture
every minute detail of the actual guitar.

In the image of the original Les Paul Custom, the guitar has a
three-piece maple top glued to a mid-’70s “pancake” body made from a
middle and back section of solid mahogany joined by a thin maple veneer,
with no chambering. The top is hand-sprayed in nitrocellulose to give
it the same Heritage Cherry Sunburst finish as the original, hand-aged
to match the wear of the existing guitar. The three-piece mahogany neck
has been made made to match the original’s thin profile. Decorative
elements include mother-of-pearl block fingerboard inlays, multi-ply
body and headstock binding, mother-of-pearl Gibson headstock logo and
split-diamond inlay, and a cream pickguard.

To match Ace’s original guitar, the Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul
Custom is loaded with three period-correct double-cream DiMarzio
humbucking pickups—two PAF models in the neck and middle positions, and a
Super Distortion in the bridge. And just like on Ace's guitar, the
traditional 3-way toggle switch has been modified to only allow the use
of the bridge pickup, allowing you to be able to accomplish one of Ace's
most noted effects. The DiMarzio Super Distortion pickup offers searing
lead tones and fat, chunky rhythm for the ultimate hard-rock
performance. Hardware includes the classic pairing of chrome ABR-1
bridge and stopbar tailpiece, with Ace’s choice of Grover tuners with
pearloid “banjo” buttons and Dunlop straplocks to keep the guitar
securely strapped on through the wildest on-stage antics. In short, the
Ace Frehley “Budokan” Les Paul Custom is the ultimate embodiment of
mid-’70s arena-rock balls and bluster, and it’s available in strictly
limited numbers.



Features

Layered mahaogany and maple pancake body with a 3-piece maple top
24.75" Scale 3-piece mahogany neck with original thin profile
12" Radius ebony fretboard with 22 jumbo frets
Dimarzio Super Distortion humbucking bridge pickup
Dimarzio PAF style humbucking middle pickup
Dimarzio PAF style humbucking neck pickup
Grover pearloid "banjo" tuners
ABR-1 bridge
Nickel hardware
Dunlop straplocks installed




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