1955 Gibson Les Paul Standard Gold Top

$49,500.00

  • Year: 1955
  • Manufacturer: Gibson
  • Model: Les Paul Standard Gold Top
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Mahogany with Gold Top
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: This incredible totally original one-owner guitar weighs just 8.50 lbs. Solid mahogany body with a carved maple top. One-piece mahogany neck with a wonderful thick profile, Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original frets and pearl crown position markers. Two incredibly hot P-90 pickups with outputs of 8.28k and 7.85k. Combination "wrap-over" bar bridge/stud tailpiece. At just eight and a half pounds, it is a real lightweight. This super guitar is in excellent plus (8.75) condition -- it plays wonderfully and has sustain to die for! There is some minor finish checking on the top of the guitar and a couple of small areas around the controls where the gold paint has actually flaked off. Housed in its original Gibson four-latch brown hardshell case with pink plush lining (9.00). The sound, oh boy, the sound�In 1955 the gold-top gained Gibson's new Tune-o-matic bridge. The unit had the facility to adjust individual string-length, improving intonation. This guitar is one of the last Les Paul Standard Gold Tops with "wrap-over" bar bridge/stud tailpiece before the Tune-O-Matic bridge was introduced in late 1955. (00601)