The Gibson VOS 57 Les Paul Goldtop is a custom shop electric guitar from the Gibson Vintage Original Spec series equipped with BurstBuckers to faithfully replicate the warm, vocal quality and rich harmonic content of the legendary originals.
Seth Lover’s fabled ‘Patent Applied For’ humbucking pickups were added to the Les Paul Model in 1957. These dual coil pickups, quieter yet moie powerful than the single coil P-90s that preceded them, combined with the ABR-1 to create a guitar with unprecedented sustain and tone.
VOS stands for “Vintage Original Spec”. The finishing process on VOS models has been customised to reflect the way Gibson finished Les Paul guitars back in the '50s. They receive a thinner nitro-cellulose lacquer finish which is applied, sanded, and buffed by hand; in other words, more care is put into the finishing process. This extra care is intended to make VOS guitars look like gently aged and well-cared-for vintage guitars. It also helps the guitars 'breathe' better and therefore to resonate and sustain more freely, making them much better instruments.
Gibson VOS 57 Les Paul Goldtop main features:
- Body & Hardware: Carved maple top
- Solid, non-weight relieved mahogany back
- Single-ply cream binding on top
- Thin toggleswitch washer & jackplate
- Antique Gold finish
- Nickel hardware
- ABR-1 bridge, lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece
- 1-piece mahogany neck with long neck tenon
- 22 fret rosewood fingerboard
- Acrylic trapezoid inlays (accurate shape and color)
- Single-ply cream binding
- Early 50s rounded neck profile
- 24 3/4 scale length, 1 11/16 nut width
- Holly headstock veneer
- Vintage tulip tuners
- BurstBucker 1 (R) and 2 (T) pickups
- CTS pots and bumble bee capacitors
- 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way selector switch
- Vintage Reissue .010 strings
- Includes Custom Shop case, certificate of authenticity, custom care kit
Gibson 1957 Les Paul Goldtop VOS (code 42085)
6-String Les Paul Reissue Guitar, VOS, Custom Shop, 2X Burstbucker Humbucker Pickups, 50s Neck Profile, Nickel Hardware, Includes Custom Shop Hard Case
£2,799.00 (inc vat)