2012 Gibson Custom Shop Historic Collection '50's Les Paul Special (TV Yellow)

2012 Gibson Custom Shop Historic Collection '50's Les Paul Special (TV Yellow)Made by the Gibson Custom Shop in 2012, this was a Japanese market release "LPSPSC" model late 50's Les Paul Special in nitro TV Yellow. Mahogany body with a reasonably thick style mahogany neck (44mm nut width) with comfortable shoulders, 22 fret bound rosewood fingerboard (with dot inlays) and Gibson branded P90's, weighs just over 3. 6kg's. Wired with Bumblebee capacitors and the original pots, it includes the original brown pink hard case and all

frets have light pitting but plenty of life

Loaded with a pair of Basslines PJ pickups controlled by independent volume knobs and a two-band active EQ system

Fender Japan pickups with Gotoh tuners and a toploader bridge

Tested and working on power supply (not included)

Neck type: GSR6 / Maple

Custom ordered from ESP's Japanese factory in the early 1980's

and current pricing makes these basses well worth the cost to own

This one had the original pickups replaced with an unknown vintage set at some stage (alnico with cloth wires

Specs from Epiphone:

very clean condition

It still shows signs of natural play with some cosmetic blemishes here and there

this Greco SE-450 wears one of our favourite factory paint-jobs - "Violin Finish"