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Check out this week’s Gibson Mod Collection guitar— an INCREDIBLE Gibson Les Paul Custom with 3 pickups! Watch as Cam showcases the latest rare and one-off Gibson Mod collection guitar, this week it's a lush metallic style green with wood grain texture all the way through, giving it this great kind of metallic sparkle that makes it pop even more. This Gibson Les Paul Custom is totally unique and NOT something you see every day. It's a very cool, rare combination with all these elements coming to

In this video, Les Paul is playing the first-ever Gibson Les Paul Custom prototype, a guitar he famously nicknamed the "Black Beauty." This specific instrument was designed to his exacting standards and served as the direct precursor to the "tuxedo" model that Gibson officially released in 1954. Credits: The Les Paul Foundation, Gibson Brands, Inc., RSA Venture, LLC, SOFA Entertainment | History In Pictures