2009 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus Honey Burst (SOLD)

SOLD

She is a Honey Burst Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus (AA top) with a very nice , deep flamed maple top and matching brown, natural mahogany back colour! Even the colour of the binding and the tuners perfectly matches this Honey Burst colour! It’s hard to show it on photos but it’s really breathtaking if you open the very premium quality Gibson hard case! This guitar is in excellent, bedroom used condition! There is a tiny little scratch on the very sensitive back but it’s not a deep one and it didn’t effect the paint at all. Have a look at it on one of the photos! This is a non-chambered guitar with a huge, fat and heavy sound!! This is a heavy beast comparing to a modern days ultra chambered, slim neck, light weight Les Paul Standards…This is my favourite from the current Gibson Les Paul range…all my Gibsons (I’ve got a 335 and another Les Paul) are non-chambered, 50s neck versions. I like the much better sustain and much warmer sound of these necks…It’s got a perfect low action, setup and spot on intonation from the factory. The rosewood grain on the fretboard looks cool too. This is the most successful model range at Gibson now! They sell more Traditional models than Standard models…I know why: it just sounds better 🙂 Have a look at the attached Youtube demo video!

“Gibson Les Paul Traditional Spec

Gibson USA has revamped the popular Les Paul Traditional, giving some fresh twists to its timeless blend of stellar tones, great looks, and unrivaled playability. The New Les Paul Traditional wraps several crucial features into a classic Les Paul that always just seemed right, echoing the specs of guitars that rocked the world through the 1980s and ’90s. The New Les Paul Traditional’s tonewood combination retains the great sound of the original Les Paul Standard, with an unchambered back for a thick, meaty tone and superb sustain. Its rounded late-’50s neck shape reflects one of the most popular profiles ever used on a Les Paul. Two PAF-style humbucking pickups with Orange Drop tone capacitors give no end of power and finesse. All this, and the new Les Paul Traditional looks outrageous with its Grade-AA figured maple top beneath a new Honey Burst, Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Caramel Burst, Light Burst, or Chicago Blue finish, all in high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer.

The Les Paul Traditional is built on a foundation of the same traditional tonewood combination that helped to make the Les Paul Standard legendary when it first arrived six decades ago. A carved solid Grade-AA figured maple top lends bite and articulation to the sound while looking great in the process, and a solid, mahogany back without weight relief contributes superb warmth and depth. A quarter-sawn, Grade-A mahogany neck is glued in and carved in a comfortably rounded late-’50s profile that measures .900” at the 1st fret and 1.00” at the 12th, and topped with a bound Grade-A rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and traditional trapezoid inlays. Traditional touches include cream body and fingerboard binding, pickguard, and pickup rings, along with gold Speed Knobs with dial pointers. Classic Gibson construction ensures optimum playability, too, along with traditional specs like a 24 ¾in scale length, a 1 11/16in width across the PLEK-cut Corian nut, and a 12-inch fingerboard radius for smooth, easy bending.

Pure vintage-voiced tone with a contemporary edge is assured by a pair of Gibson’s ’57 Classic™ pickups with traditional chromed covers. Both are made in the image of the hallowed PAF humbucker of the late 1950s with Alnico II magnets, a traditional wind in the neck position for plenty of warmth and clarity, and slightly over-wound coils in the ’57 Classic Plus in the bridge position for juicy crunch and wailing lead tones. Both pickups are wax potted, too, to avoid microphonic squeal at high volume levels, and routed through Orange Drop tone capacitors to their individual tone controls for a smooth, rich high-end roll off. The innovative pairing of a Tune-o-Matic bridge and Stopbar tailpiece ensures solid sustain and precise intonation, while a set of high-quality TonePros vintage-style ensures smooth, accurate tuning.”

If you want a great, heavy sounding Les Paul then don’t look elsewhere! The cheapest online price of this guitar in this extra colour and plus top is: £1699
My price is: £1200 SOLD

Condition
Body: 9 / 10 | Electrics: 10 / 10 | Neck: 10/10 | Case: 9 / 10