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A Tribute to Gibson's Golden Era: Les Paul Standard 50s Faded!
The new Les Paul Standard 50s Faded returns to the classic design that made it relevant, played, and loved – shaping the sound across generations and music genres. It’s a tribute to Gibson’s golden era of innovation, bringing authenticity back to life.
The Les Paul Standard 50s features a satin nitrocellulose finish that gives it the look and feel of a well-loved musical companion. It has a solid mahogany body with an AA figured maple neck in 50s style, rosewood fretboard, and trapezoid inlays. It’s equipped with an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge, aluminum stop bar tailpiece, Vintage Deluxe tuners with keystone buttons, and gold top hat knobs with pointers. The open Burstbucker 1 and Burstbucker 2 pickups are hand-wired with audio taper pots and Orange Drop capacitors.
Features
General
- Model: Les Paul Standard 50s Faded VTB
- Series: Les Paul
- Number of Strings: 6-string
- Orientation: Right-handed
- Includes hardshell case
Body
- Body Shape: Les Paul
- Top: AA Figured Maple
- Body: Mahogany
- Binding: Single-layer cream, top and fretboard
Neck
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck Profile: Vintage 50s
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
- Fretboard Inlays: Acrylic trapezoid
- Scale Length: 24.75" (mm)
- Frets: 22
- Nut: Graph Tech
- Nut Width: 43 mm
Electronics
- Bridge Pickup: Burstbucker 1
- Neck Pickup: Burstbucker 2
- Pickup Switch: Toggle switch (hand-wired with Orange Drop capacitors)
- Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone
Hardware
- Finish: Nickel
- Bridge/Tailpiece: ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
- Tuners: Vintage Deluxe with keystone buttons
Color & Finish
- Color: Vintage Tobacco Burst
- Finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer
Scope of delivery
- 1 x Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s Faded Vintage Tobacco Burst
- 1 x Hardshell Case
Specification
- Product number 00107951
- Finish Nitrocellulose
- Body Mahogany
- Fretboard Rosewood
- Handedness Right-handed
- Colour Sunburst
- Neck Mahogany
- Bridge/Tailpiece Hard tail
- Scale Standard 24.75 - 25.5 inches
- Gigbag / Case included Case
- Top Maple
- Pickups HH
- Nut width 43 mm
Accessories
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The madness!
Review from on 22.03.2025
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First of all, a huge thank you to the Kirstein team. The guitar arrived super packed and super fast. There was also a sticker on the box saying that the guitar had been checked and adjusted again by Kirstein and someone did a perfect job.
The guitar itself is amazing! The vanilla smell alone when you open the case is an experience. And what was beaming at me? A Gibson with an incredible flame top! I got one where the top is even more beautiful than in the photos. If someone had told me it was a AAA top, I would have believed it. The overall finish is absolutely flawless and the matte finish feels great. The string action, neck bend etc. were all perfectly adjusted and the guitar was even tuned.
The sound is always a matter of taste, but it certainly sounds as you would expect from a 50s Gibson. But what's most important to me is the playing feel, which is a real pleasure.
I thought long and hard about whether a guitar is really worth that much money to me, but I have to say that the Gibson is really worth every penny. An absolute recommendation to buy!
The guitar itself is amazing! The vanilla smell alone when you open the case is an experience. And what was beaming at me? A Gibson with an incredible flame top! I got one where the top is even more beautiful than in the photos. If someone had told me it was a AAA top, I would have believed it. The overall finish is absolutely flawless and the matte finish feels great. The string action, neck bend etc. were all perfectly adjusted and the guitar was even tuned.
The sound is always a matter of taste, but it certainly sounds as you would expect from a 50s Gibson. But what's most important to me is the playing feel, which is a real pleasure.
I thought long and hard about whether a guitar is really worth that much money to me, but I have to say that the Gibson is really worth every penny. An absolute recommendation to buy!
Perfect Les Paul
Review from on 17.03.2020
Variant Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s Heritage Cherry Sunburst
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Fast delivery and my second Gibson from Kirstein. Beautiful Les Paul without frippery, best playability and just Les Paul sound!
Beautiful Paula
Review from on 14.04.2023
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The guitar arrived well packaged and quickly with me! For this already a big praise to Kirstein.
Gibson has also done a good job, because the guitar has no defects and was perfectly intonated. This was not always self-evident with Gibson, but has recently become better and better!
So a really good standard that deserves its name and I am sure to be able to play it with pleasure for many years!
Gibson has also done a good job, because the guitar has no defects and was perfectly intonated. This was not always self-evident with Gibson, but has recently become better and better!
So a really good standard that deserves its name and I am sure to be able to play it with pleasure for many years!
Gibson LP Standard 50s Gold Top ---Buy June 2019
Review from on 01.07.2019
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1. sound of the guitar good
2. string action very bad - had to be completely readjusted afterwards by a specialist
( this has to be checked by the guitar department before selling )
3. saddle made of plastic, hmmm - well, yes - is a very poor quality, because
a) the saddle was already damaged (broken) and was glued on by Gibson afterwards.
sorry, that's not possible - therefore I had to have a new saddle (bone) made.
have to make a new saddle
b) ABR Tune -o-matic ,Stoptail should be exchanged ,because ,the stringguide
is not 100 percent and the sound is also not as usual.
e.g. : ( overtones tilt , sustain is too short ) therefore a new Gibson ABRH bridge was
was applied
Cost after buying the guitar ; 200 € --for that the guitar sounds now really very good .
This unnecessary time expenditure to be spent afterwards and the above-mentioned additional cost note is not at all to be expected of the customer and must always be urgently controlled by the QM system of the music store to be adhered to, which unfortunately was not observed in my case.
Since most guitar players are not technicians, this article should give the management of the music store an impulse to be more careful in the future.
So guitarists, when buying this guitar, please check immediately what was criticized, so that you do not incur additional costs and you can use the instrument immediately, namely as it should be in principle.
Best regards, Peter
2. string action very bad - had to be completely readjusted afterwards by a specialist
( this has to be checked by the guitar department before selling )
3. saddle made of plastic, hmmm - well, yes - is a very poor quality, because
a) the saddle was already damaged (broken) and was glued on by Gibson afterwards.
sorry, that's not possible - therefore I had to have a new saddle (bone) made.
have to make a new saddle
b) ABR Tune -o-matic ,Stoptail should be exchanged ,because ,the stringguide
is not 100 percent and the sound is also not as usual.
e.g. : ( overtones tilt , sustain is too short ) therefore a new Gibson ABRH bridge was
was applied
Cost after buying the guitar ; 200 € --for that the guitar sounds now really very good .
This unnecessary time expenditure to be spent afterwards and the above-mentioned additional cost note is not at all to be expected of the customer and must always be urgently controlled by the QM system of the music store to be adhered to, which unfortunately was not observed in my case.
Since most guitar players are not technicians, this article should give the management of the music store an impulse to be more careful in the future.
So guitarists, when buying this guitar, please check immediately what was criticized, so that you do not incur additional costs and you can use the instrument immediately, namely as it should be in principle.
Best regards, Peter
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