2011 Gibson Les Paul Gothic Morte Black

Offered for sale:

Used 2011 Gibson Les Paul Gothic Morte serial number 120610591.

This guitar is in good condition, neck and frets are fine. Cosmetically there are nicks and chips about the body and headstock, primarily on the edges. There are some distinct marks on the back. This guitar has seen action at the front lines.

Some Gibson verbiage:

"This outrageous new offering from Gibson USA points the way forward both for extreme style and unprecedented depths of tone and power.”

The beating heart of the Les Paul Gothic Morte is represented by a pair of Gibson USA's amazing new GEM (Gibson Electronics Manufacturing) active pickups. Made in the image of the greatest traditional passive pickups of all time, Gibson's own PAF ("Patent Applied For") humbuckers, the GEMs have Alnico II magnets and coils wound with 42 AWG enamel-coated wire.

They also include active electronics for greatly improved output and extremely low-noise performance. The GEMs are powered by a single 9v battery that yields approximately 1500 hours of service. They have a voice and playing feel akin to Gibson's popular Burstbuckers, with all of that humbucker's characteristic "smooth with edge" tonal response, and they are immune to the loading effects of volume and tone potentiometers.

They offer an extremely fast transient response for unprecedented articulation (yet with all the classic humbucker warmth and smoothness), and are extremely compatible with both effects pedals and clean amp settings. Suitable for all styles of music, the GEM active pickups represent a huge leap forward in performance and versatility.

The skeleton of the Les Paul Gothic Morte is crafted from the same ingredients that have helped to make the Les Paul legendary for nearly 60 years. A carved maple top is joined to a mahogany body that has been strategically chambered for improved resonance and weight relief, and a solid mahogany neck carved to a comfortable rounded "50s" profile is glued in Gibson's time-tested tradition. The most exciting ingredient of the entire tonewood package, however, is the exotic African Obeche used for the guitar's fingerboard. A dark, dense alternative to Ebony, African Obeche is FSC certified and, therefore, fully sustainable. As used on the Les Paul Gothic Morte, the African Obeche fingerboard carries no inlays or binding to extend the model's radical styling. In addition to the guitar's Satin Ebony nitrocellulose finish, the Les Paul Morte wears a black Tune-o-matic bridge with a black stopbar tailpiece, black Grover tuners, and a black Corian nut which has been precision cut on the PLEK for optimum intonation. All in all, it's a powerful reincarnation of the world's premier solidbody electric guitar “now propelled to greater extremes than ever with new active pickups, sustainable exotic woods and all-black styling.”

Original hard-shell case included.

Imperial Guitar says:

“We carefully inspect every instrument when we buy it and bring it up to our standards before we offer it for sale. We also do a full set up before we ship. If you decide to purchase this guitar, please let us know what gauge strings you prefer.”

Features:

Mahogany body

Maple top

Set mahogany neck

'50s-style rounded neck profile

24-3/4" scale

African Obeche fingerboard

22 frets

12" radius

Gibson GEM active humbucker pickups

Volume/Volume/Tone/Tone controls

3-way Switchcraft pickup selector

Black nickel hardware

Gibson Tune-O-Matic bridge

Stopbar tailpiece

Black Grover 14:1 tuners

PLEK nut and fretboard setup

Weight 7.4 lbs.

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