Modern Collection Custom Les Paul Standard - Gloss

A modern Les Paul Standard for today’s players

Gibson Custom is world-renowned for its Historic Reissue models and Murphy Lab aging, but not everyone is looking for a vintage reissue. For players seeking something a bit more modern, Gibson Custom is proud to introduce the new Les Paul Standard model. It’s the perfect choice for players seeking a blend of modern features and legendary Gibson Custom handcrafted quality. While rooted in tradition, this model is designed for contemporary musicians. 

The Les Paul Standard features a mahogany body with nine-hole weight relief, making it lighter and more comfortable to play for hours. The lightly figured AA maple cap adds brightness to the warm midrange from the mahogany, delivering the classic Les Paul tone that has been the Standard since the 1950s. The top is framed by single-ply binding, as you would expect, but here it is white rather than the usual cream. 

The mahogany neck features a comfortable Medium C profile carve that strikes the perfect balance between too thin and too big. It is fitted with a one-piece rosewood fretboard. Clean white binding also appears on the fretboard, which is also equipped with 22 medium jumbo frets and adorned with cellulose trapezoid inlays. 

The headstock is equipped with a nylon nut and Kluson single-line, single-ring tuners, ensuring stable tuning. The strings pass over a no-wire ABR-1 bridge that delivers full adjustability for action height and individual string intonation, and anchor solidly to a lightweight Stop Bar tailpiece. The pickguard continues the clean white plastics theme seen on the binding, and the jack plate is also white. 

A pair of Burstbucker humbucking pickups powers the Gibson Custom Les Paul Standard, with a Burstbucker 2 in the neck perfectly matched up with a slightly hotter Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position. These are both mounted in white mounting rings and hand-wired to individual volume and tone controls for each pickup, featuring audio-taper CTS potentiometers. The pots are capped with gold Top Hat knobs with dial pointers. A Switchcraft three-way toggle switch selects either or both pickups, and a Switchcraft output jack is also fitted.  

Finished in your choice of full-gloss Translucent Amber or Translucent Blue and packed in a Custom Shop hardshell case to ensure safe storage and transport, this is the ideal Les Paul for players who want a glossy, beautiful, brand-new Les Paul Standard to call their own. Handcrafted with care and precision at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, it bridges the gap between Gibson Custom craftsmanship and modern sensibilities, and sounds and plays great while doing so.

• Serial Number

  CS602097

• Brand Name

  Gibson Custom Shop

• Model

  Modern Collection Custom Les Paul Standard

• Finish Color

  Translucent Amber

• Finish Type

  Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Weight

  9.46 lbs.

• Top Wood

  AA figured maple

• Body Wood

  Mahogany with Traditional Nine-hole weight-relief

• Binding

  Single-Ply White on Top and Fingerboard

• Neck Dimensions

  .840 1st - .980 12th

• Neck Wood

  Mahogany

• Neck Shape

  Medium C

• Fingerboard Wood

  Bound rosewood

• Fingerboard Radius

  12"

• Fingerboard Inlays

  Cellulose Trapezoids

• Frets

  22 Medium Jumbo

• Scale Length

  24.75"

• Nut Material

  Corian

• Width at Nut

  1 11/16"

• Pickups

  Burstbucker 2 (Neck) and Burstbucker 3 (Bridge)

• Controls

  2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-Way Selector Switch, Hand-wired Audio Taper Potentiometers

• Tailpiece

  Lightweight Aluminum Stopbar

• Hardware

  Nickel

• Tuners

  Kluson Deluxe, single-line, single-ring

• bridge

  ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic

• Pickguard

  White

• Case

  Custom Shop Black/Goldenrod Hardshell

• Certificate of Authenticity

  Yes