2014 Gibson Custom Shop Collectors Choice #14 Waddy Wachtel 1960 Les Paul Standard - Wachtel Burst

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*Available for £7995 with payment by bank transfer. Email us at info@jordanguitars.co.uk to arrange discount*   Mint-condition Collectors Choice #14 (Waddy Wachtel) - number 60 of only 300 made (which has a nice synergy to it given it is an exact replica of the original '60 Les Paul!). It has a superb flamed top (pictured in both studio and natural light for comparison), has a heavy-relic factory finish, and is covered in lacquer checking on close inspection.   The Collector’s Choice series from Gibson Custom brings to life specific vintage Les Pauls from the collections of noted ’Burst aficionados, with the kinds of painstaking details only possible thanks to the intimate hands-on access afforded by these guitars’ current owners. Right from the late 1960s, through his work with Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, Keith Richards, Stevie Nicks, James Taylor and the Rolling Stones, Waddy Wachtel became rock’s best-known sideman and session player—a household name amid a crowd usually not seen in the spotlight. Selected by Waddy in 1968 from Stephen Stills’s extensive collection, his prized 1960 Les Paul has been with him through countless hits and sold-out tours. “When I picked it up and my hand went around the neck, it felt like time had stopped for the moment,” Waddy says of his first encounter with this special 1960 Les Paul. “I decided that this guitar I was holding was most definitely ‘The One.’ The sound of my 1960 Sunburst is incomparable.”   Gibson Custom is re-creating the “Waddy Wachtel ’Burst” in every glorious, revealing detail. From its superbly comfortable 1960 slim-taper neck profile to its entrancing soft Lemonburst finish, to its precisely recreated PAF Custom bucker humbuckers, to the added Bigsby vibrato, capturing every nuance of tone, feel, and hand-aged appearance.   Collector’s Choice #14 gives you a chance to own a singular and legendary guitar that would ordinarily be far out of reach of the average player, and that will appreciate in value