I want a Black Beauty 594

[Ovibos]

Always loved the look of LP Custom Black Beauties.

There’s something about black&gold that just works.

I think an SE or S2 with gold pickup covers and gold or hybrid hardware would be smokin’!

Seems moderately easy to get most of the way there with an S2 594. The gold pickups is the issue unless you go aftermarket.

 

[El Fenix]

I scratched that itch with an old Greco EGC 57-60.

 

[bodia]

Always loved the look of LP Custom Black Beauties.

There’s something about black&gold that just works.

I think an SE or S2 with gold pickup covers and gold or hybrid hardware would be smokin’!

Seems moderately easy to get most of the way there with an S2 594. The gold pickups is the issue unless you go aftermarket.

I’d hit that

 

[DISTORT6]

There’s a few PS’s out there with Block-bird inlays that absolutely do the trick.

 

[alantig]

I scratched that itch with an old Greco EGC 57-60.

Nice.

I had a Greco Roman model. Wrestled with it for years.

 

[El Fenix]

Nice.

I had a Greco Roman model. Wrestled with it for years.

Dad joke spotted.

 

[ViperDoc]

You can never go wrong with a Black Beauty.

 

[frankencat]

Black 594 with ebony board and gold hardware.

 

[Glide-bpm]

Black 594 with ebony board and gold hardware.

Hail yez!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ovibos]

Black 594 with ebony board and gold hardware.

This is the way.

 

[Glide-bpm]

This is the way.

This is the Way...

 

[Broseph]

I would say not all ebony board is the same. Some of it is very streaky or light in color. I always assumed it would be darker than rosewood.
But a blacked out 594 can be had. Just need to install your own gold hardware. I currently don't like that all 594 come with the same ivory tuners. Kills the vibe if you want that murdered look. I wish they released more options in the accessory store.

 

[RickP]

Magical…

 

[László]

To be a proper Black Beauty, the guitar would need an all-mahogany body, no maple cap.

It'd balance out the tone a little better with the ebony fretboard if built that way, too (just my opinion).

On the other hand, you'd need the cream plastic body binding, the pick guard, and all the other Gibson effluvia, so might as well just get the Gibson version; they're still making overpriced reissues of them.

 

[Broseph]

Another thing i wish we could opt for on black 594. That binding! Same with the mark Holcomb. I don’t get the binding

 

[Black Plaid]

effluvia

this is the perfect adjective

 

[Nadir]

To be a proper Black Beauty, the guitar would need an all-mahogany body, no maple cap.

To be a proper Black Beauty it must be a Gibson Les Paul.

 

[László]

this is the perfect adjective

It would be, if it wasn't a noun.

 

[László]

To be a proper Black Beauty it must be a Gibson Les Paul.

I'm inclined to agree, and ideally made in 1957, not a reissue.

 

[El Fenix]

I'm inclined to agree, and ideally made in 1957, not a reissue.

57-60 were the originals, with the whole mahogany body, no maple cap.
2 & 3 pickup versions exist, with the 3 being more common, IIRC.