2016 Gibson standard historic 58 spl. Run for CME.

Gibby58 said:

These les Paul's are truely stunning!,I find my self just staring at mine when I'm not playing it. Which brings me to a couple of questions for you les paul experts. Is anyone wrapping the strings over the tailpiece and are you using a larger gauge other than the gibson string set of 10-46??...oops! I should have put this in the tech forum.

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Steve Rose said:

I had one of these and regret selling it last year. I didn't have a lot of time to play and felt it should go to a new home. Stupid decision
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mrfett said:

I swear it looks different from every angle. It's a very cool top, sometimes it almost looks plain but sometimes it looks like it's on fire. Just took this now:

Took this one as I was packing it up to go out a couple months ago:

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mrfett said:

These were a really cool run of guitars; Gibson supposedly doesn't do the "Slow Iced Tea Fade" finish regularly because it's the finish from the Pearly Gates run. That was the most special thing about this run, but the lower output Custombuckers (double black under the covers as it's a '58 Reissue) are really nice. The necks are also standard '59 necks, not the thinner profile that was on 2016 True Historics. Joel from CME showed them off in this video (he's playing the one I ended up getting):

I put a pair of ECP "Hallowed Ground" pickups in it because I got a good deal on them and I had an ES with hotter Burstbuckers that desperately needed some nice vintage output pickups so I moved the Custombuckers to that guitar. They're fantastic pickups, I would've gladly kept them in the R8. Mine has lots of binding bleed all over the neck and on the body where my arm rubs it.

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