Gibson LPS500HYNH1 Les Paul Standard '50s Figured Top Electric Guitar - Honey Amber

Make A Bold Statement, Sonically and Visually

The Les Paul™ Standard 50s Figured Top returns to the classic design that made it relevant, played, and loved – shaping sound across generations and genres of music. It pays tribute to Gibson's Golden Era of Innovation and brings authenticity back to life. It boasts a solid mahogany body, an AA figured maple top, and a distinctive translucent custom color nitrocellulose lacquer finish that showcases the figured maple top. The mahogany neck has a rounded 50s Vintage profile and a rosewood fingerboard with trapezoid inlays.

The Les Paul Standard 50s Figured Top is equipped with an ABR-1, the classic-style Tune-O-Matic™ bridge, an aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece, Vintage Deluxe tuners with Keystone buttons, and gold Top Hat knobs. The calibrated Burstbucker™ 1 (neck) and Burstbucker 2 (bridge) pickups are loaded with Alnico 2 magnets and wired to audio taper potentiometers and Orange Drop® capacitors. A hardshell case is also included.

Full-feeling ’50s Vintage neck profile

Les Paul fanatics who prefer a chunky neck will find much to love in this guitar’s ’50s Vintage mahogany neck. Full, round, and not too substantial, the ’50s Vintage neck profile harkens back to the Les Paul’s earliest days, when baseball bat necks were the norm, not the exception. And while this guitar’s robust neck construction certainly dictates the instrument’s feel, many guitarists contend that a mammoth neck is key to the Les Paul’s prodigious sustain. It’s all topped off with a beautiful slab of Indian rosewood, then finished off with a classic 12-inch radius and acrylic trapezoid fingerboard inlays. Finally, a precision Plek job from Gibson’s luthiers ensures that the Les Paul Standard ’50s Plain Top features some of the finest fretwork in the guitar world, playing cleanly up and down the neck.

The power of the PAF

No other Gibson pickup boasts the pedigree of the PAF (Patent Applied For) humbucker, a pickup that set the humbucker standard upon its introduction in the late 1950s. The Les Paul Standard ’50s Figured Top’s Burstbucker 1 and Burstbucker 2 pickups offer an ultra-authentic sonic re-creation of the PAF, including an unpotted construction, Alnico II magnets, and a lower-output asymmetrical wind. The result? An open, airy, and articulate tone that captures all the warmth and dynamics you’d expect from a vintage humbucker, with an extra helping of crystal-clear note definition. Plus, while vintage Les Pauls had identical PAF pickups in both the neck and bridge, the Les Paul Standard ’50s Figured Top’s bridge-position Burstbucker 2 sports a slightly hotter tone to better balance with the neck-position Burstbucker 1’s output.

A truly timeless tonewood duo

Maple and mahogany. This combination might be an absolute staple of the guitar world now, but it’s worth mentioning that Gibson introduced it with the very guitars that the Les Paul Standard ’50s Figured Top re-creates. Why does it work so well? The stout slab of mahogany that forms the Les Paul Standard ’50s Figured Top’s body gives you a warm, rich, and resonant tonal foundation. However, vintage-style Les Pauls are all about clarity, hence the treble-enhancing carved maple top, an elegant upgrade modeled after Gibson’s iconic archtop guitars that preceded the Les Paul. And somewhere in this lauded solidbody, single-cut tonewood formula lies the secret to Les Paul’s most revered feature — a simply unparalleled level of sustain!

Gibson Les Paul Standard ’50s Figured Top Electric Guitar Features:

All the feel, tone, and vibe of a late 1950s Les Paul Standard

Mahogany body provides ample tonal warmth, while the maple top boosts treble response and note definition

Chunky mahogany neck in a full-feeling ’50s Vintage profile

12-inch-radius Indian rosewood fingerboard, precision Plek’d for immaculate fretwork

Burstbucker 1 and Burstbucker 2 pickups produce an ultra-authentic re-creation of the earliest PAF pickups

Handwired electronics, with Orange Drop capacitors for period-correct authenticity

Exceptionally stable ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge and aluminum stopbar tailpiece

Elegant Vintage Deluxe tuners with gorgeous Keystone buttons

Classic 1950s-era Les Paul Standard aesthetic appointments, including acrylic trapezoid inlays, single-ply body and neck binding, and mother-of-pearl headstock logo