31 October 2021
2015 Les Paul Traditional Limited Edition
11/02/2021 15:23
This guitar was purchased new from American Musical Supply in 2017 I believe. It's beautiful but it's a heavy beast. The only thing I've changed on this guy is the tuners. It was delivered with the Gibson G-Force robo tuners (which I like but it takes too long to change strings) so I replaced them with some nice Grovers. The pickups are unique in that they are '59 tributes which have become my favorite Gibson pickups. To me they just have that Dickey Betts sound.
Here is some advertising hype from the retailer:
This Gibson Les Paul Traditional Limited Edition is available in very limited quantities. Featuring a mahogany slim taper profile neck glued into a non-weight relieved mahogany body, the guitarist gets all the warmth and fatness of tone associated with genuine mahogany. As in the first Les Paul from 1952, a carved maple top adds brightness and unreal sustain to the guitar. This maple top is offered featuring a heavy and beautiful dose of figure. Figure is rare in maple, perhaps one in a thousand trees. Figure this nice is far more rare and highly prized. A 1.67" width Graph Tech nut sits atop a rosewood fingerboard sporting the famous 12" Gibson radius and separated by cryogenically treated medium jumbo frets for longer wear and more tonal edge. All Gibson USA guitars’ final setup happens on the world famous PLEK system which is accurate from one guitar to another within .001”. Those are real mother of pearl trapezoid inlays. The massive tones in this beast are amplified by a pair of very special Gibson 1959 Tribute humbucker pickups. The 1959 Tribute pickups feature Alnico II magnets for transparency of tone, unbalanced windings in each coil for a more authentic sound, with slugs and coils reversed for better balance between pickups. Finished in Gibson's Heritage Cherry Sunburst by hand using thin layers of old world nitrocellulose lacquer, this rare ToneMeister is shrouded in a Gibson hardshell case and comes with the dependable Gibson Limited Lifetime Warranty.