Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)

Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)
Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)
Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)
Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)
Gibson Wild Wood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard - Murphy Painted Dark Burst (Used)

Gibson

$7,999.00 
SKU: 02786

The Gibson Custom Shop Wildwood Spec 1960 Les Paul Standard, Murphy Painted Dark Burst is a special Wildwood Guitars collaboration featuring Tom Murphy’s hand-painted sunburst finish and Gibson’s Murphy Lab vintage-aging work. It combines the classic 1960 Les Paul design—with its slim neck, figured maple top, lightweight mahogany body, and specially voiced Wildwood Spec Custombucker pickups—with period-inspired hardware and construction.

Serial #0  2786

Weight: 8.8lb

Body wood
One-piece lightweight mahogany
Top
Two-piece hand-selected figured maple
Top construction
Hot-hide-glue fit
Body construction
Solid, no weight relief
Finish
Nitrocellulose lacquer, hand-painted by Tom Murphy
Aging
Murphy Lab aging; exact aging grade varies by example
Binding
Single-ply cream Royalite
Top carve
Vintage-inspired carved maple top

Neck and fingerboard

Neck wood
Solid mahogany
Neck profile
1960 SlimTaper V2
Neck joint
Long tenon, hot-hide-glue fit
Fingerboard
Indian rosewood, hide-glue fit
Fingerboard radius
12 inches
Nut width
1.687 inches (42.85 mm)
Scale length
24.75 inches (628.65 mm)
Frets
22 authentic medium-jumbo
Fingerboard inlays
Aged cellulose nitrate trapezoids
Binding
Single-ply cream, typically hand-rolled on Murphy Lab examples
Headstock veneer
Holly
Nut material
Nylon on documented examples

Electronics

Neck pickup
Wildwood Spec Custombucker
Bridge pickup
Wildwood Spec Custombucker
Pickup configuration
HH — two humbuckers
Controls
Two volume, two tone
Selector
Three-way toggle switch
Potentiometers
CTS 500K audio-taper
Capacitors
Paper-in-oil
Wiring
Vintage-inspired, hand-wired electronics

Wildwood's Custombuckers are a key part of the specification, designed to deliver vintage PAF-style response, dynamics, and articulation.

Hardware and appointments

Bridge
No-wire ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic
Bridge saddles
Nickel-plated or aluminum-plated brass, depending on example
Tailpiece
Lightweight aluminum stopbar
Tuners
Kluson single-line, double-ring
Hardware finish
Murphy Lab aged nickel or nickel, depending on finish package
Pickguard
Laminated cellulose acetate butyrate
Knobs
Gold Top Hat knobs with silver reflector inserts
Switch tip
Amber vintage-style tip
Truss rod
Adjustable
Jack plate
Reinforced metal plate on documented Wildwood Spec versions