Here’s a 2018 Gibson Custom Shop Historic 58 Les Paul that underwent a complete Historic Makeovers transformation. If you’re not familiar with Historic Makeovers, they are renown for producing the most accurate versions of vintage Les Pauls out there under the watchful eye of founder Kim LaFleur, who recently passed. His tireless pursuit of accurate materials and access to his own library of vintage guitars makes these guitars about as close as you can get to the real thing.
This guitar got the Deluxe Makeover package with the optional aging, including a Brazilian rosewood fretboard. Has the original Gibson COA and the Historic Makeovers paperwork. These guitars are irreplaceable and lefties are rare, indeed.
Deluxe Makeover Package: Our most complete Makeover for Gibson Historics. We re-carve the top to vintage spec, reshape the neck to vintage “C” shape, and use hot hide glue to install a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard with correct binding ledge and inlay routs. We inlay the fingerboard with our exclusive 1950’s style cellulose nitrate inlays, and install frets. The fingerboard and guitar body are bound with our Royalite binding and the fingerboard binding edges are rolled. The guitar is completely refinished with aniline dyes and unplasticized nitro-cellulose lacquer in one of our vintage correct finishes. The package includes a Vintage Patina (weather-checking and aging optional). We also re-stamp the serial number in a correct 50’s typeface.
