Description
Roadhouse USA:
2008 Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Axcess Flame Top in Ice Tea W/OHSC/COA.
Very good to excellent condition, showing very little wear. This guitar has been babied and is in great shape.
It plays superbly and was just given a setup.
Comes as pictured with original Gibson Custom Shop case and COA.
Built in 2008, this Axcess is a design that can be traced in part to the input of Journey guitarist Neil Schon, an artist who loved the Les Paul’s tone, but whose playing style required a vibrato, greater tuning stability and easier upper fret access. Most of the features of this instrument made it into the Alex Lifeson Axcess model that Gibson introduced a few years later.
This guitar has a weight-relieved Mahogany body with an Ice Tea Burst flame Maple top and a total guitar weight of just 8 pounds, 1 ounce. The body of the Axcess is contoured and slightly thinner than your typical Les Paul, in part as an aid to player comfort whether standing or seated and also to offset the additional weight of it’s vibrato system hardware.
The neck is made of Mahogany and is joined to the body using a contoured neck heel which allows player access all the way up to the 22nd fret, thereby giving the guitar it’s “Axcess” name.
The neck shape is wide and thin, somewhere between that of a Gibson 60’s C neck and that of a 50’s rounded C and on this guitar measures .860″ deep at the first fret, increasing to .950″ at the twelfth fret. A Floyd Rose vibrato unit and locking nut have been installed which allow for extensive pitch changes with little to no impact on the guitar’s tuning stability.
The electronics consist of exposed coil humbuckers, a 496R in the neck position and a 498T in the bridge position, along with volume and tone controls for each pickup. The tone knob for the bridge pickup on serves as a push/pull coil split control.
