2024 Gibson M2M Custom Shop 1958 R8 Les Paul Standard. This is a very unique and hard to find spec'd out R8. Yes this does have an ebony with block inlays. This has the 1960 V3 neck profile. Aged Gibson Custombucker bridge pickup. It did suffer a bad headstock break in its life and was repaired by the original shop that had this guitar made. Neck has been very stable to me and truss rod works fine. Body does have light checking throughout. It does have a lot of non original parts, I'll try to list them all. Non original Kluson style locking tuners, non original bone nut, bridge saddles are graphite string savers, non original truss rod cover and screws, aftermarket backplate (only has two screws on since this would not match up with other holes), non original oversized strap buttons, output jack, Bournes 500k low friction volume and tone pots. Pickguard is missing, I never had it. It does have all original documents like the CoA, Murphy Lab care instructions, inspection checklist and so on...(see pic). The case even still has its original tag on it. I've been really enjoying this guitar but I had to make the difficult decision to list. This guitar was originally listed at $7199 and you can find other new ones at that price, this is listed at half of that if you're ok with its battle scars.

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