GIBSON LES PAUL 30th ANNIVERSARY, 1982-83 |
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Gold Top. Real
Vintage is proud to offer another example of this rare limited
edition, issued by Gibson in 1982 and 1983 to celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the Les Paul model. In the past years we have had another
one (see here)
and we were astonished by its sound and feel. Conceived as a reissue of
the '57 version (gold top with stop-bar, tune-o-matic and two humbuckers),
the 30th Anniversary is a rare and sought-after guitar, not only
for its collectible status but most of all for 'musical' reasons. Built
with care, as we can see from the nickel hardware (instead of chrome), the
tune-o-matic ABR-1 style bridge with retaining wire, the gorgeous gold
finish, this model is regarded as the best Anniversary model mostly for
its great pickups - the so-called Tim Shaw PAFs. These humbuckers
were conceived and developed between late '70s and early '80s for the Heritage
80 Les Paul models, the early 'Burst's celebrative reissues. Today the
PAF reissues built by Tim Shaw are considered among the best pickups
ever produced by Gibson. In addition to the impressed patent number, they
have a special ink-stamped code number starting with 137 (neck) and 138
(bridge) followed
by the date, in this case december 1982 and january 1983. Even the guitar's
serial number doesn't follow the regular
Gibson rule and starts with A, B, or C. |