TRADED - Gibson Custom Shop John Lennon Les Paul Junior 2007 Limited Aged Print COA Full Set

MikeS · March 2023

For Trade - Is my 2007 Limited Edition (Only 300 made) Gibson Custom Shop John Lennon Les Paul Junior.

This is the full package; with Custom Shop guitar case and a certificate of authenticity in a special army green cloth folder with John’s autograph embroidered on the cover and hand signed by Yoko Ono. Interview with DeMarino by Andy Babiuk, author of “The Beatles Gear,” a signed Lennon print by famed artist Allison Lefcort, and Lennon’s famous “New York City” Sleeveless T-shirt.

It is 'as new', as it was manufactured and released by the Gibson Custom Shop in 2007.

Absolutely stunning guitar, and very much a sound investment as well.

Thanks for all the interest in such a short period of time. (My message inbox lit up!). Now traded to one of the forums finest.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 16, 2007) - Gibson has announced the new Custom Shop John Lennon Inspired By Les Paul guitar. The guitar features a Charlie Christian pickup in the neck position, just like Lennon’s modified 1950s Gibson single-cutaway Junior. Only 300 of these special limited-edition guitars will be produced.

Lennon owned many equally well known guitars during his lifetime, including a Gibson J-160E and Epiphone Casino. The guitars Lennon chose to play often seemed to reflect his ideas, beliefs, and lifestyle. The image of Lennon playing his modded ‘50s Junior during his famous live performance at New York’s Madison Square Garden on August 30, 1972 is an unforgettable one – one that guitar luthier Ron DeMarino helped to shape through the assistance he provided to Lennon in modifying the guitar in the early 1970s.

The Gibson Custom Shop has worked with Yoko Ono in the recreation of this famous modified Les Paul Junior guitar, with Yoko Approving a complete hands-on review of the original for the design team to use as a reference point. The Inspired By Les Paul guitar is aged to look just like Lennon’s original once it was sanded down to the solid mahogany body and includes the famous Charlie Christian neck pickup as well as aged chrome hardware. Each of the 300 limited-edition guitars will be accompanied by a Custom Shop guitar case and a certificate of authenticity in a special army green cloth folder with John’s autograph embroidered on the cover. Additionally, the Lennon fans who purchase this guitar will receive an article that includes an interview with DeMarino by Andy Babiuk, author of “The Beatles Gear,” a signed Lennon print by famed artist Allison Lefcort, and Lennon’s famous “New York City” T-shirt – sans sleeves, of course.

“It is an honor to work with Yoko Ono on a guitar inspired by one of the world’s most passionate and prolific musicians of our time, John Lennon,” said Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar. “The Gibson Custom Shop has produced a guitar which expresses Lennon’s legend and is inspired by his very own 1950s Les Paul junior guitar. It is a model designed with Lennon’s own spirit, genius and creative works in mind.”

Today, the original guitar is on permanent display at the John Lennon Museum in Japan and will also be unveiled at a special event at the Gibson Japan Showroom in Tokyo , Japan in early August 2007.

Gibson’s John Lennon Inspired By Les Paul specifications:

Model: John Lennon Les Paul
Pickups: P-90 Single Coil in the bridge position & Charlie Christian in the neck position
Hardware: Aged Chrome
Fingerboard: Rosewood Scale: 24 ¾”
Nut Width: 1.689”
Nut: Corian
Bridge: Chrome ABR-1 with stopbar tailpiece
Neck Material: One-Piece Mahogany with Long Neck Tenon
Body Material: Solid Mahogany
Controls: Single volume, single tone, 3-way pickup switch
Color: Aged Faded Cherry
Date Available: July 12th, 2007
MSRP NEW: $7,527

Thanks for all the interest in such a short period of time. (My message inbox lit up!). Now traded to one of the forums finest.

danishbacon · March 2023

This is cool as…

spark240 · March 2023

Is there a cash sale price ?

markblack · March 2023

sorry I might of missed it - what sort of trade value would you put on this? Cheers Mark

JerkMoans · March 2023

Dumodal · March 2023

My god... What kind of trade value are you looking for?

JerkMoans · March 2023

Just to add to everyone's horniness, here's Chris Buck road testing one...

ElectricXII · March 2023

What's the backplate for? To cover the routing for the mounting arrangement for the Charlie Christian pickup perhaps? It's pretty big though.

MikeS · March 2023

ElectricXII said:

What's the backplate for? To cover the routing for the mounting arrangement for the Charlie Christian pickup perhaps? It's pretty big though.

No idea, the screws have never been unscrewed to have a look. The point is, It's a clone of JL's Junior, and this is what he had on his. I'll leave it to the new owner to unscrew, and maybe they can tell us.

pluckbuddy · March 2023

ElectricXII said:

What's the backplate for? To cover the routing for the mounting arrangement for the Charlie Christian pickup perhaps? It's pretty big though.

Probably. The original CC pickups had quite a large/elaborate mounting system. No idea why it was so big.

Dumodal · March 2023

JerkMoans said:

Just to add to everyone's horniness, here's Chris Buck road testing one...

If I get this guitar would I play like Chris Buck?

ElectricXII said:

What's the backplate for? To cover the routing for the mounting arrangement for the Charlie Christian pickup perhaps? It's pretty big though.

I think initially John Lennon bought it as a regular Les Paul jr, but later on, the guitar was re-routed for a "Humberdinger" pickup, the CC pickups are really deep (Mostly because they were used for Jazz boxes kinda guitar, a slimmer Les Paul Jr probably needed the cut there!

marxski · March 2023

Love these. I read an interview with the person who did the mods and he said JL asked for a ‘Humdinger’ to be fitted.

Dumodal · March 2023

mojofilters · March 2023

marxski said:

Love these. I read an interview with the person who did the mods and he said JL asked for a ‘Humdinger’ to be fitted.

From memory, I'm pretty sure the quote is that Lennon asked for a "humperdinker" pickup at the neck, telling Morino (sp?) the guitar tech that he was "a rhythmer" by way of explaining why he wanted the extra pickup installed.

Obviously Lennon was famous for his wordplay, and Englebert Humperdinck famously kept the magnificent Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever double A sided single from reaching number 1 in the UK charts. Hence it's not clear whether Lennon was intentionally joking, or simply didn't have the exact terminology intended to hand?

marxski · March 2023

mojofilters said:

marxski said:

Love these. I read an interview with the person who did the mods and he said JL asked for a ‘Humdinger’ to be fitted.

From memory, I'm pretty sure the quote is that Lennon asked for a "humperdinker" pickup at the neck, telling Morino (sp?) the guitar tech that he was "a rhythmer" by way of explaining why he wanted the extra pickup installed.

Obviously Lennon was famous for his wordplay, and Englebert Humperdinck famously kept the magnificent Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever double A sided single from reaching number 1 in the UK charts. Hence it's not clear whether Lennon was intentionally joking, or simply didn't have the exact terminology intended to hand?

Probably both!

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