2016 GIBSON LES PAUL CUSTOM ‘LITE’ LIMITED EDITION IN EBONY
The Lightest, Most Comfortable Les Paul Ever?
Get the elegance of Gibson's Les Paul Custom with a lot less weight. The Custom Lite features modern weight relief for more comfort and sustain than ever. While the Les Paul Custom has always been a supremely elegant instrument--a "black tie" guitar for the formal crowd, many have come off the line over the years considerably heavier than the typical Les Paul Standard. The Les Paul Custom Lite, new from Gibson USA, redresses that disparity: made with a considerably thinner body and traditional weight relief, it lightens the load for a superbly playable Custom that still packs all the elegant looks and dual-humbucker tone that has made this Les Paul legendary.
The 2016 Gibson Les Paul Custom Lite at a glance:
Maple top; Long sustain with crisp, bright tone
Mahogany back and quartersawn neck; Warm, focused and present midrange
Bound rosewood fretboard; Open, warm tone and smooth playing feel
Chunkier '50s-style neck profile satisfies Les Paul purists
Thinline; weight-relieved version of the classic Les Paul Custom
Thinner; lighter body is incredibly comfortable to play over long gigs
490R and 498T humbucking pickups; Sweet, vintage tone with crystal-clear character
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In crafting the Les Paul Custom Lite, Gibson USA starts with time-tested ingredients, including the legendary tonewood pairing of a carved maple top and genuine mahogany body, the latter treated with Gibson's traditional weight relief to reduce the load and enhance resonance. The quarter-sawn mahogany neck is carved to a rounded '50s profile and topped with a Grade-A, rosewood fingerboard with single-ply binding and classic acrylic block inlays. The body and headstock are trimmed in multi-ply binding, and the headstock carries an Acrylic Gibson logo and traditional acrylic split-diamond inlay. Dressed entirely in high-gloss Ebony Black, in genuine nitrocellulose lacquer, the Les Paul Custom Lite simply oozes class from every angle.
The beauty of this gorgeous black Les Paul Custom Lite is more than skin deep, and Gibson USA has also packed added versatility into the traditional formula. Two of Gibson's most popular humbucking pickups from the Modern Classics series offer all the tone that made the Les Paul legendary. The 490R in the neck position is made with a genuine Alnico II magnet and wound with 42 AWG wire in the image of the original PAF humbuckers, for plenty of depth and warmth with impressive articulation. The 498T in the bridge position has an Alnico V magnet and extra turns of coil wire for added punch and growl. A traditional Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece enhance the sustain that has long made the Les Paul legendary, and a set of Grover keystone tuners--all in gold, as are the pickup covers and strap buttons -- ensure a lifetime of smooth tunings. Check out the Les Paul Custom Lite today, from Gibson USA, and grab a more comfortable hunk of that classic elegance. -- zZounds
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