Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Pro Electric Guitar with AAA Maple Top Purple Denim

A high-octane Les Paul for today’s high-performance player with an extra-special top.


For more than five decades, the Les Paul Standard
has been established as the ultimate performance instrument in terms of
tone and playability and has always been one of the best lookers on
stage, too. Now, Gibson Custom brings the high-performance Les Paul
Custom Pro, crafted with all the features of the prized original Les
Paul Standards but upgraded with new performance features. Rendered with
the utmost quality in craftsmanship for which Gibson's Custom Shop is
known and using the finest traditional tonewoods, hardware and pickups,
the Les Paul Custom Pro is a true stealth fighter in terms of
versatility, hiding split-coil and phase switching within its
straightforward-looking control layout, plus a useful "kill switch" for
contemporary stutter effects. All this, and the Les Paul Custom Pro
boasts killer looks, too, with a luscious highly-figured maple top.


As
with the best Les Pauls crafted since the early '50s, the Les Paul
Custom Pro starts with the legendary tonewood pairing of a solid carved
maple top glued to a mahogany body, strategically channeled to enhance
resonance and reduce weight. Marrying maple's clarity and definition to
mahogany's richness and depth produces a tonal complexity that no
single-wood guitar has ever matched, and degrees of resonance and
sustain that are only further enhanced by the deep-set quarter-sawn
mahogany neck with 17-degree back-angled headstock. Optimum playability
is insured by a fast but comfortably rounded neck profile, and a final
set up on Gibson Custom's computer controlled PLEK machine, including a
PLEK-cut Corian nut. Traditional body and fingerboard binding, acrylic
trapezoid fingerboard inlays, and single-ply plastic pickguard emphasize
the Les Paul Custom Pro's heritage, and make the incredible versatility
that lies beneath it all even more surprising.


Probe the
beating heart of the Les Paul Custom Pro Electric Guitar with AAA Maple
Top from Gibson Custom, and you find a deceptively cunning switching
array powered by two of Gibson's most impressive pickups. The
BurstBucker 2 in the neck position and BurstBucker 3 in the bridge are
crafted in the image of the original PAF humbuckers of the late '50s,
with unpolished Alnico II magnets and unevenly wound coils for that
characteristic edge and bite heard in great vintage pickups. Each pickup
has been wound with four-conductor wire to enable a complex array of
switching possibilities. Push-pull switches on each pickup's independent
volume pot provides coil splitting for convincing single-coil sounds,
while the bridge pickup's push-pull tone control provides reverse-phase
switching, and the neck pickup's tone pot doubles as a useful "kill
switch." Add it all up, and there's a startling array of tonal options
from this straightforward-looking Les Paul. It's all anchored by the
legendary pairing of a nickel-plated ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge and
nickel-plated stopbar tailpiece, with high-performance kidney button
Grover tuners to keep you tight and in tune.


Features:



High-grade AAA maple top with one-piece mahogany back
Comfortable, rounded 50's neck profile
Powerful Burstbucker #2 and Burstbucker #3 pickups
Coil-tapping, phase switching and signal kill on the fly
Nickel Grover kidney machine heads





Experience for yourself this beautiful combination of tradition and evolution. Order today.

Les Paul Custom Pro Electric Guitar with AAA Maple Top Specifications:



Body
Top: AAA Maple
Back: Mahogany
Body Type: Weight Relieved
Binding: Cream
Adhesive: Franklin Titebond

Neck
Species: Mahogany
Profile: Rounded
Truss Rod: Traditional
Joint Angle: 4° (+/- 15 seconds)
Adhesive: Franklin Titebond

Neck Fit
Joint: Mortise & Tenon
Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
Joint Angle: Tolerance +/- .005"

Fingerboard
Species: Rosewood
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
Radius: 12"
Binding: Cream
Inlays: Pearloid Trapezoid
Nut/E.O.B: 1.687/2.062
Other: Reissue Fret Wire, Black Side Dots

Nut
Material: Corian
Width: 1.687
Slots: Gibson PLEK System


Headstock
Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Gibson Logo
Logo: Les Paul Signature
Truss Rod Cover: Black Antique Bell Shaped™
Angle: 17 Degrees

Tuners
Model: Grover™ Kidney Machine Heads
Tuning Ratio: 14:01
Plating: Nickel

Bridge
Type: ABR-1
Plating: Nickel

Tailpiece
Type: Stop Bar
Plating: Nickel

Hardware
Knobs: Amber Top Hats with with Dial Pointers
Pickguard: Cream Reissue
Toggle Switch: Washer Cream with Gold Screenprint
Pickup Mounting Rings: Cream
Control Plate Cover: Black
Strings: .010 - .046, Vintage Strings
Strap Buttons: Aluminum

Pickups
Neck Position: Burstbucker II (Alnico II magnet)
Bridge Position: Burstbucker III (Alnico II magnet)

Electronics
Potentiometers: 2 Volume Controls, 2 Tone Controls
Type: 500k Audio-taper
Coil Wiring: Parallel-Machine Wound
Toggle Switch: Three-Way with White Toggle Cap
Output Jack: Traditional ¼"

Finish
Sealer: Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Case
Type: Custom Shop Hardshell
Case Exterior: Black Pleather
Case Interior: Maroon Crushed Velvet