It’s official: the Adam Jones Silverburst Les Paul is now in production
The Tool guitarist and Gibson CMO Cesar Gueikian confirm the hotly anticipated signature model is on its way
Back in January, we reported that the Gibson Custom Shop had confirmed the existence of the long-rumored Adam Jones Silverburst Les Paul, a signature version of the Tool guitarist’s original 1979 Les Paul Custom Silverburst electric guitar.
Now, both Jones and Gibson CMO Cesar Gueikian have revealed that the guitar is in the production stage.
“Yes it’s #official,” wrote Gueikian on his Instagram page, next to a photo of him posing with Jones, Silverburst in hand.
A photo posted by @gueikian on Jun 27, 2020 at 7:05am PDT
Jones, for his part, posted a pic of Silverburst body blanks at the Gibson Custom Shop on his own Instagram, with the caption, “It doesn’t get more official than this. Gibson Signature Guitars now in production!”
“I have a true love for that color and that guitar in general,” Jones said of the Silverburst last year during our all-encompassing interview on Tool’s new album Fear Inoculum.
“I believe that particular metallic paint does something to the tone or the resonance or the polarity somehow.”
A photo posted by @adamjones_tv on Jun 26, 2020 at 1:13pm PDT
We will, of course, bring you more info on the forthcoming model as soon as we have it.
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