The Gibson VOS 57 Les Paul Goldtop Darkback is an electric singlecut guitar which follows the VOS (Vintage Original Spec) that make these series of guitars Gibson's next step in their journey towards perfection.
Seth Lover’s fabled ‘Patent Applied For’ humbucking pickups were added to the Les Paul Model in 1957. These dual coil pickups, quieter yet more powerful than the single coil P-90s that preceded them, combined with the ABR-1 to create a guitar with unprecedented sustain and tone. The Gibson VOS 57 Les Paul Goldtop is now equipped with Gibson BurstBucker humbuckers to faithfully reproduce the warm, vocal quality and rich harmonic content of the legendary originals.
Although the major specs (apart from the pickups) of the Gibson 1957 Goldtop remained the same, there were minor cosmetic changes, one of which being the use of a darker mahogany back coupled with black parts which most "Darkback" owners changed back to the classic cream colour, reflected in today's beautiful 1957 Goldtop Darkback VOS.
The main features of the Gibson VOS 57 Les Paul Goldtop include:
- Carved maple top
- Solid, non-weight relieved mahogany back
- Thin toggleswitch washer & jackplate
- ABR-1 bridge, lightweight aluminum
- 1-piece Mahogany neck with long tenon
- 22-fret rosewood fingerboard
- Holly headstock veneer
- Early '50s rounded neck profile
- Acrylic trapezoid inlays (accurate shape and color)
- Nickel hardware
- Burstbucker 1(R) and 2(T) pickups
- Bumblebee caps
- CTS pots
- Green tulip tuners
- 24-3/4" scale
- 1-11/16" nut width
- Antique Gold finish
- 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way selector switch
- Vintage Reissue 010 strings
- Gibson hardcase included
Gibson 1957 Les Paul Goldtop Darkback VOS Electric Guitar (code 42086)
6-String Les Paul Reissue Electric Guitar, VOS, Antique Gold, Darkback, 2X BurstBucker Humbucker Pickups, Nickel Hardware, CTS pots, Bumblebee Capacitors, Long Tenon, Vintage Original Spec
£2,799.00 (inc vat)