1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic Premium Plus 60’s
Reissue w/Historic Vintage '59 Conversion R9
Mod
This very special Les Paul guitar started
its life off as a 1999 Gibson Les Paul
Classic Premium Plus 1960 Reissue with a
spectacular AAAA Amber Maple Top. We
saw so much potential in this amazing piece
that we decided to kick it up a notch… well,
a whole bunch of notches actually!
The wood, luithership, construction,
quality, and overall fit & finish on this
guitar is as good as it gets ~ back then in
the mid-90’s Gibson was making some of the
best production guitars they ever made. So
much so that they were directly competing
with Custom Shop guitars! Players in the
know call it the “Good Wood” era. The
management and the marketing department put
a quick stop to that - and dramatically
decreased the quality level on the
production Les Paul Classic soon after.
So… we stripped this guitar of all its cheap
hardware and electronics...down to nothing but the body and
neck, and completely rebuilt her back up
with all the very best Vintage Historic
parts money can buy. Everything got
upgraded… everything! Featuring our amazing
Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES Humbuckers,
this AAAA Premium Plus got the entire
Vintage Aged ’59 Conversion treatment. New
pickups, new 550K high audio taper pots, our
paper-in-oil boutique caps, all new vintage
braided pushback wire throughout (bye-bye
cheap telephone wire), new switch, new jack,
a vintage aged tone enhancing aluminum
lightweight stoptail, the taller vintage
Gibson Historic pickup rings, late 50's Vintage
correct tophat knobs with pointers… on and on! All the
nickel hardware has been aged to perfection
by the way.
This guitar is the Best of the Best… a
Collector’s item to be sure - but even more
importantly, a simply fantastic great
playing and sounding guitar! This guitar
started off pretty damn great… but we took
it to a one-of-a-kind spectacular specimen
of a Les Paul that cannot be rivaled.
*Something to note:
Another great thing
about this piece is that if you love and
lust after the ’59 Burst Les Paul but just
can’t get your hands around that big chunky
neck, then you’ll love this guitar because
it is a 60’s Reissue and has a slimmer fast
tapered neck.
This 17+ year old guitar is NOT dead mint
perfect… although she is very, very clean.
There are a few small dings, and
small paying scratches here and there. Overall, this
piece is in amazing condition for a 17+ year
old guitar!
A good clean STOCK Premium Plus with a AAA Top or
better goes for upwards of $2500 to $2800 just about
everywhere. This guitar has all the major mods and
upgrade valued at north of $800.00. Not to
mention all the work, skill and bench time
it took to build this magnificent piece … |