Gibson Custom Shop

From the Gibson Custom Shop and Wildwood Guitars comes the latest incarnation of the Wildwood Spec Les Pauls! For these spectacular guitars the necks, fingerboards, bodies, tops, and even the small Mahogany wings that glue to the headstock, have been painstakingly and carefully hand-selected to utilize the lightest and most resonant woods available.

We have hand selected beautiful East Coast Maple figured tops for the 59 Featherweight Les Pauls. Figured East Coast Maple is a bit heavier than non-figured Western Maple, but it couples Divinely with the lightweight neck and bodies to produce the inspired guitar of a lifetime.

Extensive feature and construction changes have been made to the 2013 Gibson Historic guitars:

• Finish - Aniline dye now colors the bodies and necks of the sunburst finishes, replicating the original beauty and finishing technique that created the Cherry over Mahogany finish of the 1950’s.

• Fingerboard - 1-piece rosewood fingerboards.

• Hardware - Long bridge and tailpiece studs and inserts to replicate the originals and adding to the already brilliant high’s, attack, and sustain the Les Paul is known for.

• Construction - Hot hide glue in the neck to body joint maximizes the resonant benefit of set neck construction.

• Aesthetics - Historically more realistic darker binding.

• TONE - Our exclusively designed and produced “Wildwood Spec Custom Buckers” , Underwound Coils and Overpowering Tone.

The Wildwood Spec Featherweight Les Pauls offer the very best in soulful tone and playing comfort. The lightweight woods give the Wildwood Spec Featherweight a more open tone, with more air and information surrounding the notes, while the Figured Maple top adds high end and sustain that will last through to next Tuesday.

Stay tuned, we have every model of Historic Les Pauls coming in the Featherweight format in 2013!