THE GIBSON CUSTOM SHOP TOM DOYLE TIME MACHINE #54 “SUPER PREMIUM” RELIC’D HISTORIC AGED CUSTOM '59 LES PAUL AAA FLAME IN VINTAGE WASHED CHERRY… "THE ULTIMATE LES PAUL GUITAR EXPERIENCE" --- NEW/MINT RELIC GIBSON CUSTOM SHOP MADE IN 2021. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN PART OF THE ACTUAL LES PAUL LEGACY...
An absolutely stunning’59 Les Paul... Overflowing with Flamey Bursty delight, so much vintage vibe and sex appeal, it’s simply out of this world! The Mojo & Magic just pours off this Vintage ’59 Les Paul flamey monster! Like it’s been played hard, loved and gigged for the last 60+ years, and it feels like your old familiar friend. Is this a REAL '59 Les Paul Burst worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars? No One Can Tell... No kidding! Weighs in at a rock solid weight of 8.8 lbs. We aged and upgraded this gorgeous creature to vintage perfection, and it shows. She has been completely upgraded with the best of the best… Featuring our aged Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF Humbuckers, and our ’59 Holy Grail Harness, of course.... featuring all new electronics – over-rated audio taper pots, paper-in-oil caps, wires, switch, jack, pickups... EVERYTHING!
The Tom Doyle aged “TIME MACHINE” “Super Premium” Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul, the best Relic’d & Aged Les Paul money can buy. Based on one of the most highly coveted guitars ever, a Les Paul from the late ‘50s… these guitars deliver the tone and the feel of the legendary guitar at a fraction of the cost.
From the COA:This Tom Doyle "TIME MACHINE" Relic Les Paul '59 Reissue is an authentic & faithful aged recreation of an oft played 1959 Les Paul "Burst". This one of a kind hand aged masterpiece features Tom Doyle's Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF Humbuckers, Real '59 Holy Grail Harness, and an exquisite vintage hand aged Lifton case. Every single part & piece has been painstakingly pored over, aged, relic'd, and antiqued in order to recreate the look and feel of a decades old, gigged 1959 Les Paul Standard.
While Gibson’s Les Paul guitars peaked in the fifties, the man with his name on the headstock was never entirely satisfied with his guitar, and even less so, the pickups. Perhaps the most prolific inventor in the history of electronic music, Les Paul was not only a phenomenal guitar player, he was one of the great minds in modern music.
In the mid-sixties, Les met the man who would become his lifelong friend/guitar tech/engineer, Tom Doyle. When Les broke it, Tom fixed it. They spent hours, days, months, and eventually years and decades together studying what makes a guitar sound good (and what doesn’t). The “TIME MACHINE” Les Paul is the culmination of literally decades of study and perseverance… guitars which are not only the best Les Pauls made today, but perhaps the best sounding Les Pauls ever made. The purists may scoff at such a bold statement, but the Tom Doyle “TIME MACHINE” Les Paul recreates everything that was great about those Les Pauls of the late fifties. Then mixes in the improvements that Les and Tom figured out during their decades of research together. Refining and re-defining what really great Humbuckers were actually capable of, which in turn changes what the Les Paul guitar is now capable of… it’s nothing short of amazing!
Our TIME MACHINE Les Paul guitars begin their life as Gibson Custom Shop Historic Les Pauls. To be a candidate, the guitar must have been manufactured in 2014 or later because that’s when Gibson switched to vintage correct hide glue, proper nitro finishes, vintage correct plastics, and original manufacturing specs. Most importantly, the guitar MUST weigh well under nine pounds and have a certain acoustic resonance property. The metamorphosis begins with every piece of the guitar being stripped off, including most of the nitrocellulose finish, then flawlessly aged with a proprietary system of the application of heat, cold and vibration. The end result is a beautifully checked lacquer finish, delightfully aged plastics, metals with a realistic patina, and an aged case that will make people’s jaw drop even before they lay eyes on the amazing guitar inside it.
The heart of the “TIME MACHINE” Les Paul is its Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF Humbucker pickups and The ‘59 Holy Grail Harness. Featuring paper-in-oil capacitors, 550K audio taper pots, and Tom & Les Paul’s proprietary tweak on the classic PAF pickup design, these guitars are the most tonally sensitive guitars on the market. Finally, there is a guitar that actually uses all ten numbers on its knobs! With every slight movement of a Doyle Coils volume and tone knob, a new tone is discovered!
The icing on the cake is a guitar that is impeccably set up by Tom and his crew, because who knows more about what a Les Paul guitar should feel like than Tom Doyle and his team? All these factors come together to make for a great playing and sounding Les Paul that is second to none on the market today.
That’s why it’s called, “THE ULTIMATE LES PAUL GUITAR EXPERIENCE”
SPECIFICATIONS
- Brand: Gibson Custom Shop Tom Doyle "TIME MACHINE"
- Model: 2021 1959 Les Paul Standard w/ "TIME MACHINE" Relic #52
- Serial Number: 911065
- Body Wood: One-Piece Mahogany
- Top: 2-Piece Figured Maple, Hide Glue Fit
- Neck Wood: Solid Mahogany
- Neck Profile: Authentic '59 Medium C-Shape (.88" @ 1st fret, 0.975" @ 12th fret)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood, Hide Glue Fit
- Scale Length: 24.75”
- Radius: 12"
- Frets: 22, Historic Medium-Jumbo
- Inlays: Aged Cellulose Nitrate Trapezoid
- Nut: 1.688", Nylon
- Tuners: Kluson Single Line, Single Ring
- Bridge: No-Wire ABR-1
- Tailpiece: Lightweight Aluminum Stop Bar
- Pickups: Doyle Coils TRU-CLONES PAF Humbuckers
- Controls: Volume (x2), Tone (x2), 3-Way Switch
- Finish: Vintage Washed Cherry
- Case: Hand-aged Lifton
- Weight: 8 lbs 13 oz
The Tom Doyle “TIME MACHINE” Les Paul is a truly special instrument, a guitar that while not inexpensive makes it possible to own one of the True Holy Grail guitars… The late ‘50s Les Paul, but without the six figure price tag.
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www.tomdoyleguitars.com
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