Aged & Signed !! 2009 Gibson '59 Les Paul Jimmy Page No. Two

Aged & Signed !! 2009 Gibson '59 Les Paul Jimmy Page Number Two #2 Murphy Aged

Hammer of the Gods...

This original Aged, signed and played No.2 Les Paul is in mint collector grade condition and comes with all the paperwork, COA Certificate of Authenticity, Les Paul case with signature, hangtags, documentation, switching templates, strap locks etc. all as pictured.

In 2009 Gibson produced a limited run of Jimmy Page’s “Number Two” Les Paul replicas. Only 325 guitars were made, 25 of which were aged by Tom Murphy at the Gibson Custom Shop and then played, hand-signed, and numbered by Jimmy Page personally!!

Not only is this one of the most desirable Gibson reissue guitars ever, it's an exceptional playing and sounding guitar too. Truly a great one with a great authentic Burst vibe. This was very well-cared for and appears to be unplayed and in mint condition. There is no fret wear evident and all the ageing appears to be factory by Tom Murphy. This is one of the few that will ever come up for sale.

The famous #2 is a '59 Burst (serial# 91703) which jimmy is believed to have bought in England sometime shortly after the '73 US tour ended. Another story is that he purchased it at the Drake Hotel just before the final Madison Square Garden Show. The guitar didn't make an appearance until January 1975, and would only be used that year with Led Zeppelin. #2 was the Kashmir guitar in 1975 (tuned to DADGAD) and it was also sometimes used for Dazed and Confused, Moby Dick, and Over the Hills and Far Away which can be seen during the Earls Court footage from May 1975. It was also used at the O2 reunion for Trampled Underfoot, Since I've Been Loving You, and Misty Mountain Hop.

Every musician knows that late ’50s Sunburst Les Paul Standards are hard enough to come by as it is. Obtaining a pristine and exemplary ’59 ’Burst and modifying it for heightened performance and vastly expanded tonal options? Unheard of… unless, of course, you are Jimmy Page. That’s exactly what the legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist, perhaps the world’s most iconic Les Paul player, did with his own ’59 Les Paul Standard.

The 1959 Les Paul that has come to be known as “Number Two” was purchased by Page in 1973 after trying for some time to acquire an exceptional second Les Paul. This was several years after having acquired his other legendary Les Paul—“Number One”, a ’59 ’Burst with shaved-down neck profile and no serial number—from Joe Walsh. “Number Two” was essentially all original when he acquired it. Jimmy did have some modifications done to the neck shape so that it would more nearly match the feel of his “Number One”. The neck is slim but not to such extremes as the now-ultra-slim neck on “Number One”. It had a strong, beautiful sunburst finish with a red element that had faded to a dusky amber-brown, along with a clear serial number dating it to 1959. Page played this Les Paul frequently through his days with Led Zeppelin, and in the early ’80s decided to make it an even more versatile instrument. Page also added that he wanted to “explore the full range of what the two humbuckers have to offer”. He designed a switching system for coil splitting, series/parallel, and phase-reverse options for both pickups, and employed a skilled electronics technician to devise a working schematic and make his sonic vision a reality. The result comprised a push/pull pot on each of the guitar’s four standard controls, plus two push-button switches hidden beneath the pickguard, all mounted on a ’59 Les Paul Standard that is otherwise a superb example of the breed, both in tone and playability.

The Custom Shop Jimmy Page “Number Two” Les Paul was recreated with intense, inch-by-inch examination of Page’s original guitar, inside and out. The process of getting it right involved the production of a number of hand-built prototypes, each of which was checked and critiqued in detail by Page himself. Approval of the final iteration was only offered after the legendary artist had intricately examined and extensively played this last prototype in his London home—after which it was given the thumbs-up, worthy of being the template for the Custom Shop Jimmy Page “Number Two” Les Paul. Only 325 examples have been be produced in total and only 25 instruments were aged by master luthier Tom Murphy, then inspected, played and hand signed and numbered by Jimmy Page personally.