Bonamazing wrote:WOW !!! Beautiful! Please talk more about it (neck profile, pickups, ...)
Thanks for asking here is a write up although not sure where the name "Babe" came from for Joe has called his "5 Speed":
"The entire premise of Gibson Custom's Collector's Choice™ series revolves around the recreation of the most prized Les Paul Standards. But the subject on this occasion represents a rarity among the rare—and even something of an enigma. In a little over 52 years on this planet, this fascinating "transitional" early 1960 Les Paul Standard has had only four owners, three of whom prefer to remain anonymous, while one is very much known to the guitar-playing public, Joe Bonamassa. Collector's Choice 1960 Les Paul 3 0-0137, otherwise known to all as "The Babe," is a marvelously well-preserved Les Paul Standard. It presents an unusual combination of late-'59 features on an early 1960 model-year guitar, as well as being one of very few verifiable Standards of the era produced with a factory-ordered Bigsby vibrato called a "Floating Bridge" at the time. In short, the Collector's Choice 1960 Les Paul 3 0-0137 "The Babe" is a precise recreation of what is an unusual and extremely desirable Les Paul by any standards, and production is strictly limited so it is destined to remain an extremely collectible guitar.
Product Features
One-piece Mahogany back with hand-selected, Eastern Maple top
Rosewood fingerboard with vintage-accurate trapezoid inlays
Powerful Custom Bucker 3 Humbucking pickups in the neck and bridge
ABR-1 bridge with aluminum base and Bigsby® tailpiece
Gotoh Nickel Reissue Green Keys with 121 tuning ratio"
"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
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