Gibson Les Paul Custom

JIMMY PAGE #2
AGED

This guitar is virtually unplayed. It was purchased new from the Guitar Centre on Sunset.
I have owned it since the first day they were released.
These rarely, if ever come up for sale.
The tonal options are endless with all the Jimmy Page modifications.
Every Zeppelin tone lives in this guitar.
Much more versatile than the Page #1 guitar.

To quote the Gibson site:

"Every musician knows that late ’50s Sunburst
Les Paul Standards are hard enough to come by as it is. Obtaining a
pristine and exemplary ’59 ’Burst and modifying it for heightened
performance and vastly expanded tonal options? Unheard of… unless, of
course, you’re Jimmy Page. That’s exactly what the legendary Led
Zeppelin guitarist, perhaps the world’s most iconic Les Paul player, did
with his own ’59 Les Paul Standard, and now—thanks to the extreme
efforts of Gibson’s Custom Shop and the intimate cooperation of Jimmy
Page himself—the artist’s hallowed “Number Two” Les Paul is available to
mere mortals, in the form of the Custom Shop Jimmy Page “Number Two”
Les Paul. Produced in strictly limited numbers, with two levels of
aging, this guitar captures the look, feel, sound, and versatility of
one of the greatest artist-owned Les Pauls of all time."

To go on:

"The 1959 Les Paul
that has come to be known as “Number Two” was purchased by Page in 1973
after trying for some time to acquire an exceptional second Les Paul.
This was several years after having acquired his other legendary Les
Paul—“Number One”, a ’59 ’Burst with shaved-down neck profile and no
serial number—from Joe Walsh. “Number Two” was essentially all original
when he acquired it though Jimmy did have some modifications done to the
neck shape so that it would more nearly match the feel of his “Number
One”. The neck is certainly slim but not to such extremes as the
now-ultra-slim neck on “Number One”. It had a strong, beautiful sunburst
finish with a red element that had faded to a dusky amber-brown, along
with a clear serial number dating it to 1959. Page played this Les Paul
frequently through his days with Led Zeppelin, and in the early ’80s
decided to make it an even more versatile instrument and “explore the
full range of what the two humbuckers have to offer. Page designed a switching system for coil splitting,
series/parallel, and phase-reverse options for both pickups, and
employed a skilled electronics technician to devise a working schematic
and make his sonic vision a reality. The result comprised a push/pull
pot on each of the guitar’s four standard controls, plus two push-button
switches hidden beneath the pickguard, all mounted on a ’59 Les Paul
Standard that is otherwise a superb example of the breed, both in tone
and playability." This guitar has it all. "The Custom Shop Jimmy Page “Number Two” Les Paul was recreated
with intense, inch-by-inch examination of Page’s original guitar, inside
and out. The process of getting it right involved the production of a
number of hand-built prototypes, each of which was checked and critiqued
in detail by Page himself. Approval of the final iteration was only
offered after the legendary artist had intricately examined and
extensively played this last prototype in his London home—after which it
was given the thumbs-up, worthy of being the template for the Custom
Shop Jimmy Page “Number Two” Les Paul."

Only 325 examples were 
produced in total: ONLY 100 were  aged by vintage-reproduction master Tom
Murphy; 25 more were  aged by Tom Murphy and signed by Jimmy Page and sell for more than $40,000 (of which I have owned two and I must say, the WAY extra $ for the signature was not worth it which is why I sold them both); and
200 were be finished to Gibson’s VOS specs.. boring.

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are welcome to email me at:
zakzanis (AT) utsc (DOT) utoronto (DOT) ca

if you have any questions....
*This guitar will ship from
Toronto, Ontario, Canada*
(I have no idea why it says Beverly Hills, CA.. if i could afford to live there, I wouldn't need to sell this guitar!)

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