Gibson Hot Rod 58 Les Paul. Celebrating a love affair that began in the 1950s, HOT ROD magazine and the Gibson Custom Shop have welded the raw power of a souped-up automobile to the sweet vintage tone of a ’58 Les Paul to produce the Hot Rod ’58 Les Paul. This beautifully reproduced 1958 Les Paul brings to rock and roll what a ’57 Chevy brings to the road. With ghosted flames licking a deep translucent red maple top, a pair of blue tailpipe pickups, a brushed chrome pickguard and a HOT ROD engraved truss rod cover, this guitar is barely street legal. Limited edition of 150.
Gibson Hot Rod ’58 Les Paul Guitar main features include:
- Carved flame maple top
- Solid, non-weight relieved mahogany back
- Single-ply cream binding on top
- Thin toggleswitch washer and jackplate
- Nickel hardware
- ABR-1 bridge, lightweight aluminium stopbar
- 1-piece mahogany neck with long neck tenon
- 22 fret rosewood fingerboard
- Acrylic trapezoid inlays (accurate shape and colour)
- Single-ply cream binding
- Early ’50 rounded neck profile
- 24 3/4″ scale length, 1 11/16″ nut width
- Holly headstock veneer
- Vintage tulip tuners
- ’57 Classic Humbucker Pickups, with heat oxidised covers
- CTS pots and bumble bee capacitors
- 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way selector switch
- Vintage Reissue .010 strings
- Cherry Red finish underscored by translucent flames
- Brushed Chrome pickguard with engraved HOD ROD logo
- Brushed chrome truss rod cover with engraved “58”
- Heat oxidized pick-up covers
At a RRP of £4000 – this is a serious collectors piece.
Case and Guitar in “near perfect” condition – the neck on this is definitely a ’50’s chunky baseball bat style neck – but the sustain from the phat neck and long tenon joint are incredible.
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