Tom anderson guitars thickness serial number#

Individual Grover Deluxe '135N' tuners with single-ring Keystone plastic buttons.

Tom anderson guitars thickness serial number#

1958 style serial number '8 6754' inked-on in black on the back of the headstock (as usual for Tom Murphy conversions). Two layer (black on white) truss-rod cover secured by two screws. 'Small' headstock with inlaid pearl 'Gibson' logo and 'Les Paul Model' silkscreened in gold. Bound rosewood fretboard with 22 medium frets and inlaid pearl crown position markers. Single-bound one-piece mahogany body with carved maple top, one-piece mahogany neck with a wonderful medium profile rising gently from 0.85 behind the first fret to 1.03 inches at the twelfth fret. and has a fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. This unique Les Paul Standard weighs 9.80 lbs. Murphy has also re-shaped the cream plastic binding in the body cutaway to the correct 1958 thickness.

He 'stripped' the gold paint from the top exposing the two -piece figured maple top which he has aged to a wonderful shade of 'Iced Tea'.

He has re-finished the guitar (except for the face of the headstock) to the correct cherry mahogany of 1958 - which he has then perfectly 'aged'. He also re-fretted the guitar with the correct gauge (.100 inch) fretwire and replaced the original tuners. Tom removed the P-90 pickups and replaced them with a pair of Tom Holmes H450 and H455 humbuckers. The conversion was carried out by the great Gibson expert luthier Tom Murphy. Around ten years ago it underwent a full conversion to a 1958 specification guitar. This unique guitar started out as a first generation 1968 Les Paul Standard GoldTop with two P-90 pickups. A 1968 Les Paul Standard GoldTop Converted by Tom Murphy to a '58 BurstРІР‚В¦Р”РЋ968 Gibson Les Paul Standard - Tom Murphy '58 Conversion