Gibson Les Paul Nash Guitars Relic Pre-owned with Case

This is a Bill Nash Conversion of a 2010 Gibson Les Paul Traditional (done in April 2010), this is the 2nd Les Paul Conversion done by Bill for Sound Pure Guitars USA and is actually one of the Les Pauls featured in their video for their first LP Conversions.

See below for the process that Nash does to these guitars - the original owner didn't get on with the coil-tap mod so replaced the controls with a RS Guitars Works Pre-Wired Vintage Electronics Upgrade Kit - the original Nash Kit will also come with the guitar.

• All original with exception of RS Guitar Works Vintage Controls/Wiring - original in case.
• Guitar weighs 9.1 lb
• Case is 'used' but all locks and latches work
• Pictures form part of the description - message if you require a specific shot
• Original Input surround cracked and replaced with a brass one.
• DiMarzio Bluesbucker in the neck and a DiMarzio Air Norton in the bridge
• This has the slightly chunkier neck, not quite a ’59 but nowhere near a slim 60s

From Nash Guitars Website:

First step is to completely disassemble and separate the parts that will be aged and re-used, from the parts that we reject and replace. The "keeper" parts are then aged.

The finish, which is sometimes rather thick, is stripped off down to the bare wood. At this point some get stains applied, if required to get the desired color. Then the guitar gets re-finished in 100% nitrocellulose lacquer, keeping it as thin as possible to enable superior resonance. We do a variety of takes on the lemon, cherry, faded, un-burst, plain and gold top looks.

After curing, the guitar gets the complete aging treatment and the then frets are re-worked and dressed to Nash's specs, then they are ready for re-assembly.

The pickups are replaced with what many of you may balk at as there are so many opinions about Les Paul pickups and tone out there. As always, Bill Nash simply builds a guitar that he would use and leave it at that. So, in his arsenal of personal guitars, his favorite and most versatile LP setup is using a DiMarzio Bluesbucker in the Neck and a DiMarzio Air Norton in the Bridge.

They then re-wire the guitar so the pickups breathe better as well as use the neck pickups tone control as a coil tap for the Bluesbucker, which gives you an amazing strat-like sound from that pickup. Between 1 and 8 on the tone knob it works as a regular tone control, between 9 and 10 it shuts off the second/dummy coil. This gives you a tap without adding switches of push pull pots.

The Air Norton give you bigger output and rich harmonics without going over the top into the tone spectrum of faceless, modern, high output sound that so many specialized humbuckers are susceptible to. These pickups have a lower string pull and a much higher sensitivity to your dynamics and playing style.

Also, as many of you may have figured out, the method Gibson uses for wiring the pots is not optimum. The tendency towards the guitar getting muddy or sounding choked when anywhere but "10". This gets re-worked when we re-wire.

Gibson installs frets on the fretboard prior to it getting glued to the neck and body. Maybe they do it as it is easier to do it that way, but it can really lead to all sort of fret issues (buzzing, fret outs, high action, dead spots etc). What happens is the neck and body glue, moisture, and all of the underlying structure will shrink, expand and or settle. The fretboard (and frets) will now adjust itself to the changes and you end up with lumpy gravy. The most noticeable and common issue is the hump at about the 14th fret, right where the neck gets really thick before it hits the body. So what Nash does is now re-work the neck and frets and take care of this to give the player better action, playability, sustain, bending etc.

This comes with the original Gibson case along with Nash's certificate of authenticity, and a 3 month warranty.

Please note: we are selling this guitar on behalf of a customer, therefore we cannot accept part exchanges on it or allow 0% Finance, however, options are available so do contact us.