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2016 Gibson 59 Les Paul Murphy Painted & Aged True Historic BOTB Page 62 From Japan

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2016 Gibson 59 Les Paul Murphy Painted & Aged True Historic BOTB Page 62 From Japan

Masterfully painted and aged by Tom Murphy exactly like the guitar on page 62 in The Beauty Of The book this True Historic 59 reissue has a hand picked top by Edwin Wilson ordered and built for the top dealers in Japan only. As far as I know this is the only reissue ever done of the guitar on page 62 in the Beauty Of The burst book. These Japanese special run guitars that are coming out of Gibson right now look amazing like real old 59 Bursts.

These are basically a special run of Collectors Choice guitars built for the Japanese dealers only and not offered to any other dealers. Gibson does not call these guitars Collectors Choice guitars due to contractual obligations but that is exactly what they are. The color is absolutely stunning and looks just like the color of the guitar on page 62 in the Beauty Of The Burst by Yasuhiko Iwande. This is the only True Historic (and possibly any reissue) I have ever seen with a hand signed certificate by Tom Murphy, Edwin Wilson and Rick Gembar, all the top brass at Gibson at the time. I cant think of any other reissue where all 3 signed the certificate. This was the first of the last 3 of runs built under the direction of Murphy, Wilson and Gembar prior to the firing of Edwin Wilson and Rick Gembar in 2017. The last 3 runs built under their direction were 1. BOTB Page 62, 2. Tea Burst/Honey Burst, 3. 1994 Killer Top True Historic’s.

These guitars were ordered back in mid 2016 but not shipped until 2017 built under the direction of Edwin Wilson, Tom Murphy, Yasuhiko Iwanda, and Rick Gember, prior to the firing of Edwin Wilson and Rick Gember in 2017 for the top dealers in Japan only. Edwin Wilson pick out all the tone woods for this run including the tops, backs, and finger boards for this run and also mixed up the back color and painted the backs. Tom Murphy with the help of Yasuhiko Iwande worked together to get the color and aging right and its spot on to Page 62 and they simply nailed it.

https://reverb.com/item/5872175-201...storic-beauty-of-the-burst-page-62-from-japan
 
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