Classic design and old-school finish with a duo of Burstbucker pickups.
The Gibson Les Paul Standard ’60s Faded electric guitar pays tribute to the golden era of Gibson innovation, returning to the much-loved and highly played design that shaped sound across generations and genres of music. It features a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish that gives it the look and feel of a long-treasured musical companion. The solid mahogany body is paired with an AA figured maple top, and a SlimTaper ’60s-style mahogany neck with a rosewood fingerboard and trapezoid inlays. The Les Paul Standard ’60s faded is equipped with an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge, aluminum stopbar tailpiece, Grover Rotomatic kidney tuners and gold top hat knobs with silver reflectors and dial pointers. The open-coil Burstbucker 61R (neck) and Burstbucker 61T (bridge) pickups are loaded with Alnico 5 magnets and hand-wired to audio taper potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors.
The Gibson Les Paul Standard ’60s Faded comes with a hardshell case.
The Gibson Les Paul Standard ’60s Faded comes with a hardshell case.
Specifications
Body
- Body type: Single cutaway
- Top wood: AA figured maple
- Body wood: Mahogany
- Body finish: Satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck shape: SlimTaper
- Neck wood: Mahogany
- Neck finish: Satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Material: Rosewood
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Acrylic trapezoids
- Nut width/material: 1.69" (43 mm) Graph Tech
- Configuration: HH
- Neck: Proprietary humbucker
- Bridge: Proprietary humbucker
- Control layout: Volume 1, Volume 2, Tone 1, Tone 2
- Special electronics: Hand-wired with Orange Drop capacitors
- Bridge type: Fixed bridge
- Bridge design: ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
- Tailpiece: Aluminum stopbar
- Tuning machines: Grover Rotomatic with kidney buttons
- Color: Nickel
- Number of strings: 6 string
- Case: Hardshell case
- Orientation: Right-handed
Features
- Mahogany body with an AA figured maple top
- Mahogany neck in a SlimTaper profile
- Rosewood fingerboard with 22 frets and acrylic trapezoid inlays
- Burstbucker 61R at the neck and Burstbucker 61T at the bridge