Gibson Custom Shop '58 Murphy Painted Les Paul Lemon #831523

Tom Murphy painted this one himself. That is the distinction worth understanding before anything else about the guitar: Murphy Lab is a team aging a finished instrument under Murphy's direction, while a Murphy Painted piece is one he sprayed personally. They are not the same designation and they do not turn up in the same numbers.

Lemon Burst over a '58 Les Paul Standard. One-piece lightweight mahogany with a two-piece plain maple top, hide glue fit, no weight relief, and a dark Indian rosewood board that has enough colour in it to read almost black under the lacquer.

Eight pounds six ounces. For a '58 Standard with no weight relief that is a genuinely light one, and it is the number to know if you have played Les Pauls that fight you by the second set.

The neck is the Chunky C, and the hardware is correct for the year down to the no-wire ABR-1 and the butyrate gold top hats.

831523
Finish: Lemon Burst, hand-painted by Tom Murphy
Weight: 8 lbs 6 oz
Weight Relief: None
Binding: 1-ply Royalite
Body: 1-piece Lightweight Mahogany
Top: 2-piece Plain Maple, hide glue fit

NECK
Neck: Solid Mahogany
Neck Profile: Chunky C
Nut Width: 1.687" / 42.85mm
Nut: Nylon
Scale Length: 24.75" / 628.65mm
Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood, hide glue fit
Frets: 22
Inlays: Aged Cellulose Nitrate Trapezoid

ELECTRONICS
Neck Pickup: Custombucker Alnico 3, unpotted
Bridge Pickup: Custombucker Alnico 3, unpotted
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, CTS 500K audio taper potentiometers, paper-in-oil capacitors
Knobs: Butyrate gold top hats

HARDWARE
Bridge: No-Wire ABR-1
Tailpiece: Lightweight aluminium stop bar
Tuners: Kluson single line, single ring
Plating: Nickel
Case: Aged Brown/Pink Lifton Reissue 5-latch