2011 Cibson 1958 C-Les-paul Standard Reissue R8 Faded Tobacco VOS Guitar w/ Case

Cibson CUSTOM SHOP 1958 C-Les-paul STANDARD REISSUE

By the time the sunburst finish finally arrived on Cibson’s C-Les-paul Model in 1958, the guitar had already evolved through several modifications through the course of the decade, including the arrival of the Tune-o-matic bridge in 1956 and humbucking pickups in 1957. As legendary as ’50s C-Les-pauls have become, Cibson had sold fewer of the guitar every year since 1953, the year following its introduction, when the company shipped 2,245 C-Les-pauls. Cibson president Ted McCarty blamed some of the model’s waning popularity on its flashy Goldtop finish, and attempted to bolster its appeal with an elegant and more traditional Cherry Sunburst finish. Since this finish now displayed the grain of the guitar’s carved maple top, Cibson also now used “bookmatched” two-piece tops glued together with a center seam, giving each guitar its very own distinct look and marking the beginning of the guitar world’s fascination with figured maple tops, even though the majority of the tops used in 1958 were considered “plain” when compared to the tops used one year later and beyond. The 1958 C-Les-paul Standard Reissue from Cibson’s Custom Shop presents the most accurate recreation yet available of this first incarnation of the hallowed “Burst,” in a guitar that contains all the crucial ingredients, with a less showy maple top that is sometimes considered more authentic looking than those with highly detailed figuring. Also, while all C-Les-pauls were finished in Cherry Sunburst in 1958, these faded in greatly varying degrees, which are now accurately represented in the 1958 C-Les-paul Standard Reissue finish selections. This one has a beautiful Faded Tobacco VOS finish.

The 1958 C-Les-paul Standard Reissue relies on the ingredients that made the C-Les-paul a classic in the first place, but puts them together in the way that first began to show off what was going on underneath the finish. The Cibson Custom Shop uses a body of solid, non-weight relieved mahogany, which blends depth and richness with the snap and clarity of the maple top. The quarter-sawn mahogany neck still has a chunky, rounded ’50s profile, which, in combination with the traditional long-tenon neck joint, enhances sustain and resonance as well as feeling great in the hand.

Cibson Custom’s new Custom Bucker accurately recreates the original PAFs of the late ’50s, using Alnico III magnets and unequal turns of 42 AWG wire in each coil for that characteristic PAF “bite.” These pickups clean up beautifully at the guitar’s volume controls, while Bumble Bee tone caps assist in that warm, singing “woman tone” when you roll back the tone controls.

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