Gibson Custom Shop

Gibson Custom is where Gibson builds to a vintage reference. Historic Collection guitars use neck profiles and body carves 3D-scanned from benchmark vintage examples, so a '59 Les Paul reissue feels like a '59 in the hand. The Nashville shop handles the electrics, and the Bozeman shop builds the custom acoustics.

Most of the page is Les Pauls, with ES models, SGs, Firebirds and acoustics alongside. See every Gibson Custom solid body in stock, the ES models, or browse the current range in the Catalogue.

• 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue. The Historic '59, with Custombuckers and the 1959 neck profile
• Les Paul Custom. In gloss and aged finishes, from quilted and flamed tops to solid colours
• Murphy Lab. Historic builds hand-aged in four levels, from Ultra Light to Ultra Heavy
• Made to Measure. Built to a written spec: tops, colours and necks outside the standard catalogue

Ask us in the chat for current pricing on any Gibson Custom Shop model.

Every Gibson Custom leaves our bench set up and ships insured, free over $200 across Canada and the US, with no duty on US orders. Lauzon Music is one of the biggest Gibson Custom Shop dealers in the world. Anything we don't have, in any current Gibson Custom model and finish, we can order in through the Catalogue.

Gibson Custom builds in Nashville. The Custom, Art and Historic division was set up as its own operation in 1993, the year the first Historic Les Paul Reissue appeared, and the brief has not changed since: build a 1959 Les Paul the way it was built in 1959, down to the carve, the wiring and the lacquer.

Most of what is on this page is a Historic Reissue. '58, '59 and '60 Les Paul Standards with Custombuckers, '56 and '57 Goldtops, a 1968 Les Paul Custom. VOS is Vintage Original Spec: period-correct hardware and electronics, and a finish Gibson takes off full gloss and wears in before it ships.

The Murphy Lab is Tom Murphy's aging shop inside Gibson Custom. He developed the process and trained the people who run it. It works at four levels. Ultra Light Aged is finish checking and little else. Light Aged reads as decades of ordinary playing. Heavy Aged adds buckle wear and aged hardware. Ultra Heavy Aged goes through to arm wear and neck wear, with the hardware beaten to match.

Made to Measure is where the spec gets written before the guitar gets built, and a good share of this page came through it. Handpicked and torrefied tops, koa, 5A and 7A quilt, left-handed builds, a stinger headstock, a Carmelita neck. The colours run Bourbon Burst, Dirty Lemon Fade, Iguana Burst, Green Lemon, Ice Flame, Faded Cobra, and Violet Purple Denim over a TV White back. Away from the Les Pauls there is a Murphy Lab 1961 ES-335 in cherry, a non-reverse Firebird 12-string in Aqua Mist, and a Les Paul Axcess in Olive Drab.

Lauzon Music is one of the biggest Gibson Custom Shop dealers in the world. We go to Gibson once a year, pick out the wood and spec the finishes ourselves. Every one of these crosses Ian Vance's bench in Ottawa before it ships. If the spec you want is not on this page, we will write it up and order it.