Hey now! You’re looking at an iconic anniversary guitar.
This is a 1978 Gibson Les Paul 25/50 Anniversary Electric Guitar.
It weighs 10 lbs 11 oz, 24.75″ scale, 1.69″ nut width.
Celebrating the 25th year of the Les Paul guitar, and Les Paul’s 50th year in the music business.
Gibson learned there was a market for anniversary Les Paul’s after the success of the 20th in ’74.
The 25/50 is a unique model for many reasons, including the unique and intricate pearl/abalone “25/50” headstock inlay design, creative use of silver/gold hardware combinations, abalone side dot marker inlays, a beautiful flamed maple top, 5-piece flamed maple neck, split block parallelogram inlays, brass nut, and a coil tap mini-toggle switch. A Nashville bridge with TP-6 fine tuning tailpiece.
Classic Les Paul tonal recipe, with additionally beautiful looks.
At almost 11 lbs, the ingredients for the famous Gibson sustain and thick mid range crunch are right here.
Grabbing up all this natural tone are a pair of Gibson Series VII “tar back” pickups.
These pickups are powerful! The coil tap allows for a ton of single coil tones, making this 25/50 one of Gibson’s most versatile guitars.
Everything appears to be all original, with every pot dating to ’78 as well.
Just setup – the neck is straight and the frets are clean.
There is tons of vintage mojo here, this guitar was well loved and has many stories to tell, and tons of room for more.
All the normal play wear- marks/scratches, dings/dents, finish wear, hardware scratches, a discolored pickup cover, and parts where the binding has separated from the top/body.
Please carefully look through all of my detailed photos for a better visual description.
It includes the hard case in the second picture.
Don’t miss out on a true piece of Gibson history with this 1978 25/50 Anniversary Les Paul.
Thanks for looking!
