Gibson Custom Shop '59 Les Pauls with Torrefied Tops! They're back at The Music Zoo!

[@hkguitar1984]

Very cool, thanks for following through with the idea after so many years.

[@IPLAYLOUD]

The wood on many old guitars we love was old when it was built. I have an uncut mahogany slab from 1965 for an Epiphone Coronet that could very well have been close to 100 years old when it was cut 60 years ago. "Roasting" is a thing, and now you get it on Imports.

[@briansilcox5720]

In 2011 worked with “another” guitar maker in San Diego, ordered one of their guitars to my spec, where many wood choices and treatments were available (at a price). I got exactly what I wanted, and it was very reasonably priced (compared to Customer Shop). In recent years I see they are now offering “toasted” woods on selected components. True custom guitars and customer service.

[@fugamantew]

They definitely have the tone going on for them

[@TommySG1]

Hey guys, I’ve been down to your shop a few times now since I’m pretty darn close here on Long Island. These tops are phenomenal and I’m putting it mildly lol 😂

[@TommySG1]

Yes… I did say ‘on’ Long Island as well 🤣

[@johnmoua235]

Those are beautiful 🤩 tops

[@themusiczoo]

agreed!

[@hootowl6354]

I have several roasted maple necks from Warmoth. Not only do I get roasted, I also get stainless frets of my favorite shape, and I get a fretboard radius that I favor. I can choose from a few nuts too. And dots, and binding, and side dots. And tuner holes. The whole enchilada. But your git has to be bolt-on, not set; unless you're building the whole thing.

[@agusg.t.8950]

Amazing guitars but….Give me my plain top 58 any day 😊

[@themusiczoo]

we hear you friend...LOVE a '58!

[@danieleidet7131]

I dunno man, my ‘57 is pretty rad.

[@themusiczoo]

@@danieleidet7131 those are great too!

[@Nordic_Sky]

Correct. They don't look realistic at all.

[@kdub0529]

No pickguard holes?

[@scottharris5009]

someone is roasted for sure!

[@hootowl6354]

I'm toasted. Does that count?

[@jonvig4771]

Serious question: Are you saying the process was not done in the 90s? To be honest, I have 4 from 95 their classics, with the same look and tops. I think the process was being toyed with back from the early 90s on with Murphy painting them.

[@b00neDawg00]

I wish guitarists would realize that you can just like the way wood looks or feels and it’s okay to admit to it you’d don’t have to come up with pseudoscientific explanations about how certain woods affect the “tone”

[@LysanderLH]

Don’t feed the monster! Because Gibson have been making the same guitar for 70 years. 9:04 the first chord is played plugged in…through a heavily distorted amp and possibly pedals too! So we are supposed to be able to hear the subtle nuances in the wood, as discussed at length for 9:03 minutes. Think about it. My advice is to buy a Heritage,Vintage or any of the other great brands out there which are not owned by a corporation which sues small makers for minor copyright claims and who uses an Agnesi threat bot to threaten anyone even thinking of making anything similar to a LP.

[@mikedfurman]

Unfortunately if you don’t defend your IP, you lose it. Gibson is not alone in this at all, they just get more negative press about it. Heritage is also owned by a foreign subsidiary as well and Fender isn’t owned by fender either. These are not boutique brands, you want boutique buy a Suhr or Anderson or Collings.

[@LysanderLH]

@ Gibson is owned by KKR &Co. Inc. which is a global investment firm. Faceless. Inanimate. Unmusical. That makes a big difference over how the comoany behaves and who benefits the most from people buying ‘suddenly worth’ five grand guitars. The marketing behind five grand guitars has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with shareholder returns. That is not cynicism, it’s reality. So I do indeed spend that sort of money on eg. Suhr and other brands (about to sell two Gibson custom guitars for an Anderson or maybe a Suhr to get out of the Gibson orbit forever) because I can see where the money goes and who benefits the most from it.

[@Dylan-n9g1o]

"Tonal differences" 😂😂😂 Just stop already.

[@nj.5581]

Gibson is now the McDonald’s of Guitars. THEY pump out Les Paul’s like McDonald’s hamburgers every other week. Same old Les Pauls with different flavours. Gibson must be secretly being run by Paul Reed Smith. PRS sells woods and colours and finishes. PRS doesn’t sell instruments. They sell pretty art pieces to be hung on a wall.

[@theariesexperiment4642]

WAY WAY to bright for my ears. 😣 They look amazing though. I will say that.