13/09/2026
⭐ TWO LES PAUL “BURSTS” ⭐
Today we’re happy to share these two extraordinary Gibson Les Paul Standards — one from our personal collection and one from the current inventory.
First, Alberto Radius’ personal 0-1944, which we restored a couple of years ago with an incredible team of luthiers: our Romano Burini, RUFINI | GUITARS, the amazing Joe Riggio , my late dear friend JW Guitar Restoration, with the fundamental contribution of Ken McKay.
And Cecil, serial 0-7668.
Cecil is a phenomenal example, offered for sale directly by the son of its original owner, all the way from South Africa.
Beyond its extraordinary tone, what particularly fascinates us is the combination of its super-dark Brazilian rosewood fingerboard, beautifully unfaded cherry finish and incredible three-dimensional figuring that seems to play peek-a-boo with the light.
This is the beautiful, unfaded cherry of the earlier Burst era — not yet the later “tomato” shade seen on some late-1960 examples. It also has a fantastic neck profile, not too thin, and is simply incredible to play.
A real stunner of a specimen.
Cecil was also the inspiration behind the incredible project we developed with our friend Nik Huber for the Nik Huber Guitars Aged Dolphin we presented to Kirk Hammett a couple of months ago.
👉 Cecil is available — full specs, detailed photos and pricing on our website inventory page.
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