Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Junior

About Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Junior

Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Junior by Sam Ash - A Near perfect Recreation!The symmetrical rounded double cutaways are exact reproductions of the legendary 1958 model. The slab mahogany body remains slightly lighter than the standard Les Paul, and Gibsons legendary dog eared P 90 pickup offers the soulful, classic tone that only a P 90 can, with more warmth than a standard singlecoil pickup, and blended with higher output and sweet treble response. The Les Paul Juniors body and 24 inch scale length neck are made from premium mahogany, with the neck featuring a long neck tenon, 22 fret rosewood fingerboard, pearloid dot inlays, and Gibsons traditional 50s rounded neck profile. The CTS pots, bumble bee capacitors, nickel hardware, white button tuners, and lightweight aluminum wraparound tailpiece are all period correct. It is available in TV Yellow, Faded Cherry and TV White finishes in either V.O.S. or Gloss and comes with the standard Gibson Custom Shop case and certificate of authenticity.A Little History...By the end of 1957, sales of Gibsons popular Les Paul Junior single cutaway model had begun to decrease and the company explored new ideas to keep an affordable, yet fully professional guitar in the hands of young players and amateurs alike. Using the same 99.50 price point it had for the previous three years, Gibson introduced a revamped version of the Les Paul Junior in July of 1958 that featured a brand new double cutaway design which allowed players complete access to the Juniors 22 fret fingerboardan idea that had also been implemented on Gibsons Modernistic guitars, and the ES 335.Gibson also introduced several new finishes that sought to take advantage of the rapid development of color television, including a transparent cherry red finish that would ultimately become known as the Heritage Cherry Sunburst finish, and a limed mahogany finish similar to the yellow color of a banana. The idea was to produce a more lively finish so that the guitars could stand out on home television screens, hence the or
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