A One-Owner 1960 Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty."

1960 Gibson Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty."

This "one-owner" medium weight Les Paul Custom weighs 10.70 lbs. Solid mahogany body with a slightly arched top.  One-piece mahogany neck with a nice medium profile and a comfortable nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches. Ebony fretboard with 22 original thin frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. Three really hot PAF (double-black) humbucking pickups with very strong outputs of 8.16k, 8.14k, and 7.76k. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic non-retainer bridge with metal saddles and separate stud tailpiece. This is an amazing one-owner guitar in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition and this is the first time that it is being offered for sale. Housed in its original (very worn) Gibson five-latch black pebble-grain "black beauty" hardshell case with yellow/orange plush lining (7.50). One of just 189 Customs shipped in 1960…This totally original '60 Custom -- with a neck and a sound to die for -- is certainly one of the finest that we have ever seen. At just over ten-and-a-half pounds it is on the medium-to-heavy side for a Custom - but the extra weight shows most positively in the sound.