Weight: 9.04 lbs

Remarkable condition Pro II, rings like a bell, incredibly resonant thanks to satin back and sides. Plays and sounds great with some modern features, comes in original hard case.

Taking design and visual cues from the Les Pauls of the '80s and '90s, the Les Paul Traditional Pro II features powerful pickups with push/push for coil splits and boost circuit, rounded '50s or slim-taper '60s neck profile, Grover locking tuners, antique binding, period-correct pickguard, vintage Gibson top hat knobs, and the revolutionary Plek set up. With all the fat, sweet, snarling Les Paul tone that purists love, the new Limited Edition Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro II sports a mahogany body with a thick maple cap for the perfect blend of warmth and clarity. The top is finished in high-gloss lacquer, while the back, sides, and neck have a smooth satin finish that feels great and lets the wood resonate fully.

Among the qualities that make Gibson's original "Patent Applied For" humbucking pickups so unique are the subtle variations between coil windings. For the first few years of their productions'1955 to 1961'Gibson's PAF humbuckers were wound using imprecise machines, resulting in pickups with slightly different output and tone. The '57 Classic and Super '57 pickups are the result of Gibson's drive to capture and recreate this characteristic. Introduced in 1992, the '57 Classic at the neck provides warm, full tone with a balanced response, packing that classic Gibson PAF humbucker crunch, inspired by those original PAFs that received a few extra turns of wire. The Super '57 bridge pickup debuts in the Traditional Pro II with a wider frequency response and increased output.

Both are made by Gibson to the exact same specs as the original PAFs, including Alnico II magnets, nickel-plated pole pieces, nickel slugs and maple spacers. Gibson added poly-coated wiring, which improves consistency by eliminating thick or thin spots on the wiring, and wax potting, which removes all internal air space and any chance of microphonic feedback. Both pickups offer coil splitting for single-coil sounds and a boost circuit via push/push switching in the volume controls. "Straight Split" coil-splitting offers pure single coil tone and differs from LP Standards and Studios that have a "Super Tap" coil-tap, which still has a small amount of humbucking. The boost circuit has a user-adjustable 10-dB boost for added power and frequency range for solos, single-note picking and dirty chording (depending on amp settings) and features true bypass that disengages the boost completely, ensuring pure passive Les Paul tone.

The Les Paul Traditional II utilizes the revolutionary Plek machine in setting up the guitar. The Plek is a German-made, computer-controlled machine that carefully measures each fret, along with the fingerboard height under each string, and then automatically dresses each fret, virtually eliminating string buzz and greatly improving the overall playability of the guitar. This pioneering process does in minutes what it takes a luthier several hours'sometimes even days'to accomplish. Every fret is accurately aligned, and the guitar is properly intonated, leaving the instrument "Plek'd" and amazingly playable.

Body: Mahogany

Top: Carved maple

Back: Mahogany

Neck: Set mahogany

Neck Profile: Rounded '50s 

Headstock: Angled

Scale length: 24-3/4"

Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood

No. of frets: 22

Nut width: 1.69"

Inlays: Trapezoid

Binding: Antique

Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with stopbar tailpiece

Tuners: Locking Grover

Hardware: Chrome

Bridge pickup: Super 57 humbucker with push/push coil-splitting

Neck Pickup: '57 Classic with push/push coil-splitting

Electronics: 2 volume with push/push coil-splitting, 2 tone (1 with push/push to activate boost), 3-way toggle pickup selector

Knobs: Vintage Gibson top hats

Pickguard: Period-correct

Case: Gibson fitted Hardshell

Other: Plek setup