Gibson Custom Shop’s new Murphy Lab has one purpose: to take expert aging artist Tom Murphy’s proprietary techniques to the next level. Here, Tom and his personally trained team of artists use cutting-edge technology and Tom’s own processes, developed over years of careful testing, to produce perfect replicas of golden-age Gibsons, each dressed with Tom’s brand of authentic, hand-applied playwear, and scientifically reverse-engineered nitrocellulose lacquer, identical to that which the brand used in the 1950s and 1960s. Each Murphy Lab model corresponds to one of four distinct aging levels and features extra-rolled fingerboard binding for a broken-in feel and true-to-life look.

Body Shape:Les Paul
Back:1-Piece Lightweight Mahogany
Top:2-Piece Plain Maple, Hide Glue Fit
Weight Relief:None
Binding:1-Ply Royalite
Neck:Solid Mahogany
Profile:Chunky C-Shape
Nut width:1.687″ / 42.85mm
Fingerboard:Indian Rosewood, Hide Glue Fit
Scale length:24.75″ / 628.65mm
Number of frets:22
Nut:Nylon
Inlay:Aged Cellulose Nitrate Trapezoid
Bridge:No-Wire ABR-1
Tailpiece:Lightweight Aluminum Stop Bar
Knobs:Butyrate Gold Top Hats
Tuners:Kluson Single Line, Single Ring
Plating:Nickel; Murphy Lab Light Aged
Neck pickup:Custombucker Alnico 3 (Unpotted)
Bridge pickup:Custombucker Alnico 3 (Unpotted)
Controls:2 Volume, 2 Tone, CTS 500K Audio Taper Potentiometers, Paper-in-Oil Capacitors
Case:Brown/Pink Lifton Reissue 5-Latch