We are happy to offer for sale this Gibson Les Paul Special in TV Yellow Finish. Details as follows:

• Year of Manufacture: 2024 (s/n 215840286)
• Factory: Nashville, Tennessee
• Finish: TV Yellow
• Body Construction: Solid body
• Body Material: Solid Mahogany slab body
• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Neck Profile: Vintage 50s profile (chunky/fat neck)
• Scale Length: 24.75" (628.65mm)
• Fretboard Material: Rosewood, bound (single-ply cream binding)
• Fretboard Radius: 12" (304.8mm)
• Number of Frets: 22, medium jumbo frets
• Nut Material: Graph Tech nut
• Nut Width: Approximately 1.695" (43.05mm)
• Pickups: Two Gibson P-90 pickups
• Hardware: Nickel finish
• Tuners: Gibson Deluxe tuners with white buttons
• Bridge: Wraparound bridge/tailpiece
• Controls: Two volume and two tone controls, 3-way toggle switch (hand-wired with Orange Drop capacitors)
• Pickguard: 5-ply black pickguard
• Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Condition: 9/10
• Case: OHSC (Original Gibson Hard-Shell Case)

Comments:

 

The Les Paul Special was first introduced by Gibson in 1955 as a step up from the bare-bones Les Paul Junior, bridging the gap to the more expensive Les Paul Standard. It retained the slab mahogany body construction of the Junior but added a second P-90 pickup for increased tonal versatility, along with binding on the fretboard. The distinctive "TV Yellow" finish was created to appear white on black-and-white televisions of the era, avoiding the excessive glare of actual white finishes under studio lights. The single-cutaway Special design made a popular return in reissues in later decades. This Les Paul Special was manufactured at the Nashville, Tennessee factory in 2024. It is part of the modern Gibson USA Les Paul Special production, which pays tribute to the simplicity and raw power of the original 1950s models. 

 

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