Gibson Custom Shop Chambered 1958 Les Paul VOS Reissue Electric Guitar (With Case)

Manufacturer's Description for Gibson Custom Shop Chambered 1958 Les Paul VOS Reissue Electric Guitar (With Case)

The Gibson Chambered 1958 Les Paul VOS Reissue has all the great features, tone, and looks that made the original '58 Les Paul a classic, but with an ultra-light body! By popular demand, Gibson has incorporated their tonal chambering process in this amazing guitar. This Chambered version of the 1958 Les Paul VOS features a carved maple top, mahogany back, and one-piece mahogany neck with rounded '50's neck profile. And of course all of the appointments are there including single ply cream binding on the top and fingerboard, reissue trapezoid inlays, nickel plated hardware, and an original ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge.

The Gibson Burstbucker Pickups used in the Chambered '58 are historically accurate Patent Applied For replicas with an airy tone and unbalanced coils. A medium output Burstbucker 1 is used in the neck position, while the Burstbucker 2 in the bridge position has a slightly hotter output. Both have unpolished magnets and non-potted coils like the original Patent Applied For pickups.

No matter where a Gibson Les Paul is seen - in the hands of a star performer, silhouetted in a guitar dealer's ad, or cast in brass and incorporated into the architecture of a restaurant - it is universally recognized as the symbol of rock and roll music.

From basic no-frills guitars to elegant showpieces, the guitars of the Les Paul Series are the standard-bearers of Gibson's excellence.

The Les Paul Custom, introduced in 1954, has been affectionately nicknamed the Black Beauty and the Fretless Wonder. By any name, it has always represented the highest level of elegance and beauty in the Les Paul family.

Gibson Vintage Original Spec Series - The Greatest Vintage Guitars ever made... Today. The Gibson Custom Shop proudly introduces the Vintage Original Spec™ series of historic solid body guitars. From the 1957 Les Paul Junior to the 1960 Les Paul Standard, the Custom Shop debuts 17 reissue models representing the next step in Gibson's journey toward recreating the finest guitars ever made.

The Vintage Original Spec (VOS) series is the latest step on Gibson's journey toward perfection. When you pick up their '59 Les Paul Reissue - or any of the VOS guitars - you will experience the culmination of more than 20 years of effort to give you the look, feel, and sound of a $300,000 original.

They started with playability. Vintage Gibson guitars have a played in feel that is hard to describe and even harder to reproduce. But thanks to a combination of superior craftsmanship and newly implemented technology, Gibson is closer than ever to achieving that goal.

Their revolutionary process - and the Custom Shop is the only major manufacturer using it - ensures precise fret work and a perfectly cut nut on every guitar. Frets will be leveled, shaped, and crowned to exacting specifications - often unique to each individual instrument - and will extend a bit further towards the binding, giving you more surface area. The nut will be carefully hand-shaped to give it a more rounded, vintage look.

The feel of the neck is also vitally important to a vintage guitar. For this reason, the VOS guitars will have neck profiles that accurately reflect the three key eras in Gibson’s electric guitar history: early ’50s, late ’50s, and ’60s. These necks will be a bit fuller, and together with a rolled fingerboard binding, will allow players to experience incredibly comfortable feel and playability.

The VOS series guitars will also provide a stunning visual experience. Using a proprietary process that includes unique steps for staining, wet-sanding, and hand-rubbing, the guitars reflect what a well cared for 40-year-old guitar looks like. The result is a remarkable patina that will delight even the most discriminating enthusiast. The hardware will also go through a new proprietary process, giving it a look one would expect to see after decades of natural oxidation. And finally, the edges of the neck heel and peghead will also be softened, lending the guitar a gently worn-in appearance and comfort.

As always with Gibson's Custom Shop guitars, you will experience an instrument that faithfully recreates our most sought-after classics - down to the smallest details. Including:

1-piece, solid mahogany backs. Not book-matched or weight-relieved

Historically accurate neck tenon for superior sustain - you can see it extending under the neck pick-up

Bumblebee capacitors (where applicable), and correct routing

Historically accurate reproductions of original PAF humbuckers

Tortoise dot markers on the side of the neck

ABR-1 bridge and lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece

Holly headstock veneer

Period-correct stain and filler

100% nitro-cellulose lacquer finishes - no added plasticizers zZounds is an authorized dealer of Gibson products.

Body & Hardware
Lightly figured carved maple top

Chambered 1-piece mahogany back

Single-ply cream binding on top

Thin toggle switch washer & jackplate

Nickel hardware

ABR-1 bridge, lightweight aluminum stopbar

Neck & Headstock
1-piece mahogany neck with long neck tenon

22 fret rosewood fingerboard

Acrylic trapezoid inlays (accurate shape and color)

Single-ply cream binding

Early ’50s rounded neck profile

24.75-inch scale length, 1.6875-inch nut width

Holly headstock veneer

Vintage tulip tuners

Electronics & Strings
Burstbucker 1 (Neck) and 2 (Bridge) pickups

CTS pots and bumble bee capacitors

2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way selector switch

Vintage Reissue .010 strings