1957 Gibson Les Paul Special TV Yellow , Near Mint, Hard, $16,000.00

Fantastic example of an extremely clean all original 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special serial number 7 3931. Always great value for the money a 1950’s era Les Paul Special is a wonderful guitar and a smart investment speculation. To feel a 1957 Gibson Les Paul neck is a wonderful experience, and this years production Gibson was using a smaller fret, in 1959 Gibson started installing a larger fret. These frets in spite of being small have almost no wear and all their life left as the guitar just wasn’t played much. At this time Gibson was using a very dry Honduras mahogany for the body, Brazilian rosewood for the fingerboard and the result was a guitar that weighs 7 pounds 7 ounces, now you have an instrument that's sonically pleasant to the ear. This guitar sounds great when played acoustically no amp, a sign of a great guitar that gets even better when you add two hand wound P-90's to the mix. This helps explain some of why these instruments are good; they were made largely by hand with materials not available any more but were common and available supply at that time for manufacturing. This guitar displays no real playing wear but does have some minor signs of age most noticeably in the form of light weather checking, primarily on the face but hard to see as it’s not severe and not everywhere. The electronics are 100% all hardware is original and very clean, no modifications or repairs, not a solder joint touched, a pristine unmolested piece easily within the top few percent of all of the Specials available today. We highly recommended buying instruments in this realm of quality, as the investment yield is always greater when buying rare models in perfect condition. This is certainly true of this 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special, all-original near mint with newer Gibson Custom Shop case.