This double-cutaway 1960 Les Paul Special has apparently lived a pretty hard life, but retains its badass cool factor and remains a great playing and sounding instrument. With twin P-90 pickups on the mahogany body the rip-roaring original sound is fully intact, mated to a very playable flat/thin profile 1960 neck that still fills the hand most agreeably! It has had a number of very well done structural repairs but has been expertly restored to make a very fine "player grade" example of this classic Gibson solid body.
This is the last variant of the original 1950's Les Paul Special, which had been chanced from a single to double cutaway format in late 1958. In the next year the neck pickup was moved farther away from the fingerboard to allow for a stronger neck joint and the selector switch relocated farther forward on the body, near the bridge. The realization that these new double cutaway bodies left a lot less attachment area for the neck caused Gibson to alter the design in less than a year. In 1961 they evolved into the more sculpted SG series, so had a relatively short shelf life originally. This Special features two powerful black-covered "soapbar" P-90 pickups, controlled by a 3-way toggle and individual tone and volume controls. It sports a multi-ply beveled-edge black celluloid pickguard and nickel-plated solid bar bridge/tailpiece assembly.
The headstock carries the pearl Gibson logo and "Les Paul Model" designation, with strip Kluson deluxe tuners. The neck has the flatter 1960 profile but retains a fairly substantial feel, chunkier than some of this year's output from Kalamazoo. This is a great all-around player's guitar suitable for the rampaging rock and roll these are often prized for or many other genres (Years ago Frank Reckard used this model to great effect for straight country pickin' with Emmylou Harris).
This one is not what we would call a "collector-grade" piece but would make an excellent gigging and/or recording example of this cherry Gibson classic.Īs Gibson solidbodies from the 1950s and early '60s become ever rarer, the two-pickup Special represents perhaps the best value in a "Golden Era" Gibson solid.
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