Up for adoption is my excellent 2022 Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab 1958 Les Paul Junior double-cut, ultra-heavy aged in TV Yellow.

I bought this beauty new from the terrific team at Wildwood Guitars. The guitar has never been out of my humidified music studio - never gigged, never recorded. It has less than an hour of playtime.

It looks, feels, plays, and sounds brilliant. The world-class luthiers at Wildwood did a professional setup. Intonation is perfect, and there's no buzzing anywhere on the neck.

I added Schaller straplock buttons for safety.

To fully appreciate the rock & roll sounds of a 1958 Les Paul Junior, watch the video of the amazing Greg Koch in the Wildwood Guitars "lair," playing the exact model of LP Junior.

Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab ultra-heavy aged Les Paul Juniors list for $7,999 new. This one is nearly new - unplayed. You'll save thousands adopting it here.

No trades, thanks.

From Gibson:

"The Les Paul™ Junior was first introduced in 1954 during Gibson’s first Golden Era and revised in 1958 to feature double cutaways and improved fretboard access. While it was initially designed as an affordable, high-quality, solidbody electric guitar option suitable for students and beginners, it didn’t take long for professional musicians to discover the magic of this erstwhile “student model” and use it on recordings and stages around the world. The appeal? The Les Paul Junior’s outward simplicity disguises the wealth of tonal options available from the single pickup, volume control, and tone control; by varying where you place the picking hand, as well as the settings on the master volume and tone knobs, you can coax a huge range of different sounds out of a Junior.

The luthiers and craftspeople of the Gibson Custom Shop have proudly replicated the originals in intricate detail with this 1958 Les Paul Junior Reissue. It is a complete structural and visual clone of the coveted vintage counterparts, from the one-piece slab mahogany double-cutaway body to the long tenon, hide-glue-fit solid mahogany neck with a 1950s rounded medium C profile, rosewood fretboard with 22 authentic medium jumbo frets and celluloid dot inlays, Kluson® three-on-a-plate white-button tuners, and wraparound bridge/tailpiece. However, the real magic is in the identical sound and playability. A mean, fiery Gibson Custom Dogear P-90 pickup, paired with CTS® 500k audio taper volume and tone potentiometers and wired to a paper-in-oil tone capacitor, creates tones ranging from sparkling cleans to crunchy distortion. Anything you throw at it, this Les Paul Junior can handle! It features Ultra Heavy Aging by the skilled artisans of the Murphy Lab. The Murphy Lab Ultra Heavy Aged finish treatment, paired with heavily aged hardware, simulates decades of heavy playing wear, giving it the unique character, vibe, and feel of an original example from the Gibson Golden Era. A Gibson Lifton Historic gator skin hardshell case is also included for safe storage and transport."

Specifications

Model: 1958 Les Paul Jr

Builder: Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab

Year: 2022

Body Type: Solid Body, Double Cut

Body Wood: 1-Piece Solid Mahogany

Finish Type: Murphy Lab Aged Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Finish Color: TV Yellow

Aging: Ultra Heavy Relic

Neck Wood: Mahogany

Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood, Hide Glue Fit

Neck Carve: 50s Rounded Medium C

Scale Length: 24.75in

Neck Radius: 12in

Frets: 22 Authentic Medium-Jumbo

Nut Width: 1.69in

Nut Material: Nylon

Nut Depth: .92" at the 1st fret, 1.02" at the 12th fret

Neck Finish: Murphy Lab Aged Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Inlays: Celluloid Dot

Bridge Pickup: Custom Dogear P-90

Pickguard: 1-Ply Tortoiseshell Celluloid

Hardware: Nickel; Murphy Lab Heavy Aged

Bridge: Wraparound "Top Wrap"

Tuners: Kluson Strip with White Buttons

Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone

Electronics: CTS 500K Audio Taper Potentiometers, Paper-in-Oil Capacitors

Extras: Certificate of Authenticity

Case: Lifton Historic Gator Skin Hardshell Case

Weight: 7.20 lbs