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1957 GIBSON Les Paul Junior in Tobacco Sunburst

* Serial number: 706671

Cosmetic Condition: VERY GOOD

  • No cracks & no repairs around bridge-studs, its rock solid – check the history link below.

Upgrades/modifications: Tuners are a vintage set of Grover, original tuner marks are visible but not disturbing at all, it has its charme, and the quality of this tuners is fantastic. The wraparound tailpiece is a light weight Creamtone replacement. Refret with Jescar Fret Wire, slighty higher then the original frets, perfect action and playability. There is a very small finish touch-up, owed to a little filled hole next to the strap button, visible only under blacklight.

All work professionally done by luthier Enrico Crippa from Sound City – Piacenza IT.

Description:

Here is an amazing “Tobacco Sunburst” Gibson L.P. Jr from 1957, it has a few minor changes but is otherwise all original. The machine heads are a vintage set of Grovers, the wraparound tailpiece is a light weight Creamtone replacement. The guitar has a refret and has just been set up, the action is very comfortable, the intonation is good and the trussrod works fine. The original Tobacco Sunburst has a very cool looking finish checking and so lot’s of mojo. The Junior shows some good honest players wear with some scars of time on the front of the body, some heavier wear at the back of the body, some slight wear and tear on the neck and on the headstock. The P-90 is clear and bright, strong and punchy, great vintage feel and tone, It plays and sounds amazing. All electronics are original to 1957, both pots and caps are untouched, all plastics are original.

Comes in a nice black (no logo) vintage HSC with yellow interior in excellent condition.

History: https://www.vintageguitar.com/38943/in-detail-gibsons-1954-58-les-paul-junior/

 

Specifications:

Body:

  • Mahogany single-cutaway solid body (1-piece)
  • Tobacco Sunburst finish / nitrocellulose lacquer
  • Set neck (glued-in neck joint)

Neck:

  • Mahogany (1-piece)
  • V-shape profile – the neck is very comfortable, not as chunky as the earlier models
  • Scale Length is 24.75 inches (628.65 mm)
  • Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard
  • Single-action trussrod, adjustable
  • Nut Width is 1.6875″ (42.8 mm)
  • Radius is 12″
  • Neck depth is 0.87″ at 1st fret / 0.96″ at 12th fret
  • 22 frets
  • Pearloid dot position markers – inlays
  • Single-action trussrod, adjustable at the headstock

Headstock:

  • Open-book (“moustache”) shape
  • Gold “Gibson” silkscreen logo
  • No truss rod cover lettering
  • Tuners are a Nickel made set of “Milk Bottle” vintage Grover
  • Black bell-shaped trussrod cover, single-ply, with no inscription

Electronics:

  • Pickup is 1 × P-90 single-coil pickup in bridge position w. black dog-ear cover
  • Pickup output: ~7.88kΩ
  • Controls are 1 × Volume and 1 × Tone
  • Original volume & tone potentiometers are Centralab 500k audio taper potentiometer
  • Bumblebee capacitor (.022 μF), often paper-in-oil type
  • Point-to-point wiring, cloth-covered wire

Hardware & plastics

  • Light weight wraparound Creamtone bridge/tailpiece
  • Black single-ply pickguard
  • Nickel-plated strap buttons
  • Side-mounted, black metal jack plate output jack

Miscellaneous:

  • Weight; 3.640 kg / 7.357 lbs
  • Non original black (no logo) vintage case with yellow inerior

All guitars are professionally inspected and set up, ensuring optimal playability and performance.

* Don’t hesitate to ask for more infos and details, I can send manufacturing date codes and interior pics per request: e-mail

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