Gibson 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Standard V2 Electric Guitar

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1960 Les Paul Standard, Gibson Custom is proud to announce limited edition runs in honor of the fabulous Bursts of 1960. 1960 was the final year of production for the now legendary Les Paul Bursts that Gibson produced between 1958 and 1960. The run of these three versions of the 1960s Les Paul guitars are limited to 500!

Features
- Carved figured maple top with Solid, non-weight relieved mahogany back

- 1-Piece Mahogany Neck with 22 fret Rosewood Fingerboard

- BurstBucker 1 and 2 pickups mounted with slotted screws

- Thinner transition neck based on painstaking research and historical scans

- Colors represent the natural fading of the original bursts due to exposure to sunlight

- There will only be a total of 500 of the 50th Anniversary 1960s Les Pauls

- Beautiful Bursts with Nitro-gloss finish

- Commemorative 50th Anniversary Certificate of Authenticity

- Includes Gibson Custom Shop Case

1960 Gibson Les Paul Bursts!
1960 was a year of transition for the Les Paul Standard (including changing the name from simply Les Paul Model to Les Paul Standard). In the beginning of the year, the Les Paul Standard was a continuation of the 1959 Les Paul model, with all the specs virtually the same. This included the same cherry and heritage dark sunburst finish, neck shape, etc...

By around midyear, things began to change. Most notably, the neck was in transition from the larger, rounder profile neck to a thinner profile. During this transitional… read more period, units were produced with a unique profile that was generally thinner and elliptical, but hadn't made the full transition to the neck profile you find on units produced in the latter part of 1960.

Les Paul Standards in the latter part of 1960 sported a new standard slim, fast, low action neck profile. They also now featured double-band tuners and insert tone and volume knobs. Finally, and easily the most noticeable change was a transition from the typical cherry sunburst to a brighter and more colorfast burst often referred to as a tomato soup burst.

These 1960s Les Paul bursts were played by many notable artists, not least of which was Eric Clapton who wielded one of these storied 1960 bursts on one of the most influential blues-rock albums of all time - Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton with John Mayall often referred to as the Beano album. read less