NGD - a Tuxedo '58 Standard

[sws1]

I have been looking for years for something like this, but it was either a heavy custom, or it had a wiggle stick, or it had 3 pickups, etc. Suddenly this guitar appeared as part of a special dealer run. (A few dealers have these now.)

It's a '58 Standard (with a maple top, just like a burst), but in Ebony...front and back, with cream plastic.

8 1/4 lbs. Ultra-light aging. (More like it's just scuffed, with minimal checking.)
'59-ish neck profile with narrow frets.
Great set of custom buckers (7.8k-ish)

I've had a lot of historics over the years, and this one might be the best built of all of them.

 

[LeonC]

I love the look. Very much like my benchmark '54 Oxblood. Also very low output Custombuckers. They're the best sounding modern humbuckers I've heard from Gibson.

Congrats!

 

[jb_abides]

Congrats!

Would you mind sharing the year and neck profile terminology as specified by the dealer (Chunky-D, Chunk-C, 50s Rounded Medium)?

You are giving me serious GAS! Doesn't help I was persusing this one at TMZ... I know, a Custom but close.

 

[sws1]

Congrats!

Would you mind sharing the year and neck profile terminology as specified by the dealer (Chunky-D, Chunk-C, 50s Rounded Medium)?

You are giving me serious GAS! Doesn't help I was persusing this one at TMZ... I know, a Custom but close.

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The full list of specs:

• Mahogany single-cutaway body with plain maple top and cream binding
• Mahogany neck in 1950s Chunky D-Shape profile
• 9mm one-piece rosewood fingerboard
• Jescar FW50078 Historic Narrow Tall fret wire
• Aged celluloid trapezoid fret inlays
• Nylon Reissue nut with Kluson Deluxe tuning machines
• Nickel-plated aged '59 Historic Reissue No-Wire notched ABR-1 bridge
• Nickel-played aged aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece
• Aged Custombucker unpotted humbucking pickups
• Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab Ultra Light Aged finish treatment
• Gibson hardshell case included

I don't care what it says about the neck shape....it feels like what I had on the last few '59s. Maybe that's what "chunky-D" means.

 

[jb_abides]

I don't care what it says about the neck shape....it feels like what I had on the last few '59s. Maybe that's what "chunky-D" means.

Yeah, Gibbo Gone Wild on recent nomenclature for neck profiles. I'd love for them to provide more than 1 & 12 fret measurements with some accurate 3D frames.

Thanks... Enjoy!

 

[corpse]

Bad ass

 

[AA00475Bassman]

Really nice - I really like my tall narrow frets on my 2020 .

 

[STC]

Congrats - that's a stunning R8!

 

[Hotshot]

Beauty

 

[LPR6]

What dealer? Willcutt had a few like that, can’t recall if they were 57’s or 58’s. I was very tempted.

 

[sws1]

What dealer? Willcutt had a few like that, can’t recall if they were 57’s or 58’s. I was very tempted.

Sweetwater has 5 of them still.

 

[J T]

That is a beauty! Congrats!
I wonder if they come with gold knobs too?

 

[charliechitlins]

The full list of specs:

• Mahogany single-cutaway body with plain maple top and cream binding
• Mahogany neck in 1950s Chunky D-Shape profile
• 9mm one-piece rosewood fingerboard
• Jescar FW50078 Historic Narrow Tall fret wire
• Aged celluloid trapezoid fret inlays
• Nylon Reissue nut with Kluson Deluxe tuning machines
• Nickel-plated aged '59 Historic Reissue No-Wire notched ABR-1 bridge
• Nickel-played aged aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece
• Aged Custombucker unpotted humbucking pickups
• Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab Ultra Light Aged finish treatment
• Gibson hardshell case included

I don't care what it says about the neck shape....it feels like what I had on the last few '59s. Maybe that's what "chunky-D" means.

Chunky D.
My new stage name.

 

[sws1]

That is a beauty! Congrats!
I wonder if they come with gold knobs too?

This limited run does not. In the past, there were versions like this with gold knobs.

 

[corpse]

You are digging it huh?
You are a bad bad man.

 

[jb_abides]

@sws1

How are you getting along with the Narrow Tall frets?

Any 'tasting' notes i.e. comparing to the previous standard-issue Medium Jumbo (on older Historic Reissues)?

 

[sws1]

@sws1

How are you getting along with the Narrow Tall frets?

Any 'tasting' notes i.e. comparing to the previous standard-issue Medium Jumbo (on older Historic Reissues)?

No problems at all. They are not too tall to be railroad-like, but still tall enough to bend easily. Compared to the small frets on my Murphy V, they are noticeably bigger.

 

[NickiC]

I don’t need to see ebony Les Pauls. Or hear there are ebony R8’s
now.
Maybe a 9lb+/- VOS

 

[fretboarder]

Nice guitar how does it compare to Danger's tone?

 

[sws1]

Nice guitar how does it compare to Danger's tone?

Similar. Clear and bright without being harsh. Great middle tone.
Probably why I liked it...it's what I want to hear in an LP.

Neck and fret work are very different. DB has wide frets and a fatter neck and it more complex on the high end.