Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom: Limited Run Black Beauty
Bonamassa's latest Nerdville-inspired limited run guitar
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The Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom comes from Mr. Bonamassa’s Nerdville guitar collection (here you’ll find an overview of his gear). It’s a particularly valuable piece from 1959, originally known as the “Black Beauty“, and now there is a limited run available based on this guitar.
Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom
The Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom is a faithful recreation of an iconic original, featuring a stunning antique ebony finish over a mahogany body with aged multi-layer binding on the top and back.
Late ’50s Specifications
The Epiphone Les Paul Custom’s mahogany neck has a 1959 Rounded Medium C profile and is fitted with a bound ebony fingerboard, with 22 medium-jumbo frets, and pearloid block position markers. The multi-ply bound headstock in the ’60s Kalamazoo style is adorned with the Epiphone logo and the iconic custom split diamond inlay made of mother-of-pearl.
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The hardware gleams in elegant gold. The guitar is equipped with a low-friction Graph Tech nut, which, together with a set of Grover Imperial tuning machine heads, ensures great tuning stability.
The Epiphone LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge is paired with a Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece, which makes this guitar stand out from the crowd.
At the heart of the Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom are two Epiphone ProBucker Custom pickups, connected to individual volume and tone controls and featuring high-quality CTS potentiometers.
Price and Availability
The Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ’59 Les Paul Custom comes with a certificate of authenticity and a hardshell case with “Nerdville” graphics. The guitar costs $1084/£965/€1099and is available now at Thomann.
The guitar is limited to 1500 units and is priced fairly, so it should sell fast.
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