The choice of many star performers.

Fine art meets music in the Gibson Custom Shop '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar. In 1957, the Les Paul collection entered a new age of sound, featuring a new humbucking pickup that launched the sound heard around the world. Offering tone variations unavailable on any other Les Paul, the '57 Black Beauty is equipped with three BurstBucker pickups to offer a unique palette of vintage sound. Other features include a carved mahogany top and solid mahogany body, a one-piece mahogany neck with 22-fret ebony fingerboard, ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, 24-3/4" scale, 1-11/16" nut width, body/neck/peghead binding, and ebony finish

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.

NOTE: optional gold Bigsby tailpiece may vary with Bigsby script over gold background or over black background.

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent Features:

• 3 BurstBuckers
• Carved mahogany top and solid mahogany body
• One-piece mahogany neck
• 22-fret ebony fretboard
• ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece (optional Bigsby tremolo)
• Body, neck, and headstock binding
• Long neck tenon
• Gold hardware
• Classic ebony finish
• Includes hardshell case, Custom Care Kit, Certificate of Authenticity

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent Includes:

• Custom Shop hardshell case and certificate of authenticity

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Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent Specifications:

• Top wood: Carved mahogany
• Back wood: Solid mahogany
• Binding: Multi-ply white/black on top and back
• Neck construction: 1-piece mahogany
• Fingerboard wood: 22 fret ebony
• Inlays: Pearl block
• Binding: Single-ply white
• Profile: Rounded
• Scale length/Nut width: 24-3/4"; 1-11/16"
• Pickups: BurstBucker 1 (rhythm) and 2 (treble); BurstBucker 1 in middle position on 3 pickup configuration
• Other: CTS pots and bumblebee caps
• Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
• Hardware color: Gold
• Bridge/Tailpiece: ABR-1/Bigsby tremolo or aluminum stopbar
• Other: Thin, original-style toggle switch washer and jackplate
• Tuner style: Kluson vintage tulip tuners
• Strings: Brite Wires .010-.046

Gibson Custom '57 Custom Les Paul Black Beauty Electric Guitar - Scratch 'n' Dent

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The top of the Les Paul mountain

Posted by Al from Nashville on May 4, 2005

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist, retired semi pro musician

Reviewer's Play Style: rock, metal, progress. classical

I have had my LP Custom Black Beauty for 6 years. AND, I have to admit, this is the finest guitar I own. It has the best fretboard and most comfortable neck and action of any Gibson I own, including the other Les Pauls. Playing this guitar's fretboard could not be more enjoyable. It is not work, it is sheer enjoyment.

With the three pickups, you have the widest possible tonal range; it has an unusual routing method with the switch, allowing you sound palettes the other models do not allow. The Black Tuxedo effect of the B. Beauty is striking. It is an awesome guitar to behold, but it is even better to play. Crank this into a Marshall or Soldano tube amp, and you will get the surprise of a lifetime. This is musical/rock nirvana. The mahagony wood gives it a tone that is unmatched.

I cannot say enough good things about this extraordinary instrument. AND, should a tiny problem arise, Gibson excells at taking care of its customers. I had a tiny flaw on mine, just a minor issue, and Gibsons top Cust Support team was super. I love this guitar!

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