1991 Gibson Custom Shop Edition Pre-Historic '54 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty w/ Case, Yamano

Up for sale, a 1991 Gibson Custom Shop Edition ‘54 Les Paul Custom “Black Beauty” “Pre-Historic” model in excellent condition and in perfect working order, complete with a hardshell case. A limited run made for Gibson’s Japanese distributor Yamano, this rare and early ‘54 reissue was one of sparingly few made in this “Custom Shop Edition,” predating the establishment of Gibson’s official Custom Shop by a couple of years.

Produced during an increasingly heralded era of Gibson production colloquially known as the “good wood” era, this Pre-Historic Les Paul Custom boasts a mahogany body with a mahogany top, mahogany neck, and bound ebony fingerboard, faithful to ‘54 spec. The all-mahogany construction yields a potent midrange warmth and bark, paired with the glassy articulation and treble cut of the ebony board. The P-100 pickups offer P-90 performance without the hum, delivering touch-sensitive trebles, midrange growl, and bold, fat low end. This Custom Shop Edition ‘54 Les Paul Custom weighs 12lbs 1oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 10-46 strings, low action, and accurate intonation.

Neck Specs:

-Wood: Mahogany
-Shape: Slender-to-chunky C, measuring .815” 1st fret, .985” 12th fret
-Fretboard: Ebony, block inlays
-Frets: Medium jumbo, leveled/crowned, faint wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-2
-Scale Length: 24 3/4”
-Nut: 1 11/16”
-Tuners: Grover Rotomatics
-Serialization: Eight-digit stamp dates to ‘91
-Factory Markings: Custom Shop Edition decal

Body Specs:

-Wood: Mahogany
-Pickups: P-100 x2
-Harness: CTS pots date to 10th and 15th weeks of ‘91
-Controls: Volume x2, Tone x2, Three-way pickup selector
-Hardware: ABR-1 bridge, aged Bigsby B7 vibrato (replacement, original tailpiece and mounting hardware included)
-Plastics: Five-ply black pickguard, black bonnet knobs

This guitar has a professionally-addressed headstock repair favoring the treble side, smooth to the touch with limited touch-up.

The gloss Ebony nitro lacquer finish exhibits tight “spiderweb” checking, framed on both sides by ambered multi-ply binding, with cosmetic wear limited to some minor dings on the lower bout. The nitro gloss on the neck profile is clean and smooth.

A brown Gibson USA hardshell case is included.