Note! In order to guarantee you the best possible service about this specific guitar, we ask you to make an individual appointment with us. Only serious inquiries. Thank you.

This Burst will not get shipped, we will personally deliver this guitar anywhere in the world at an additional cost depending on where you are located.

1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard – Sunburst “Burst” Rosie

We present an exceptional 1960 Gibson Les Paul standard – Sunburst “Burst”. Made in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

This Burst has not yet been registered on burstserial.com. We will let it be up to the next owner whether or not the serial number should get published. So now you have the chance to get it listed on burstserial.com.

The story of Rosie.

This historical piece of Gibson history comes from the original owner in McNabb, IL back in August 2021.

This original 1960 Gibson Les Paul standard & Gibson amplifier was given brand new to Rosie as a gift from her parents. Rosie played it in her three-piece band – The Rhythmettes – for around four or five years before getting married and having kids. Marriage and kids became a little more important than guitars. The band broke up and she lost interest in playing guitar. Therefor this incredible Burst ended up being stored in its case since back then.

Fast forward to when one of her kids had a daughter who decided she wanted to learn to play guitar. She didn’t have an electric guitar so she asked grandma Rosie about hers. Rosie was pleased that her granddaughter wanted to play so she happily let her borrow her old guitar after digging it out of the closet. After looking at similar guitars online, the granddaughter quickly realised that this was not like those reissues, this is the real deal. Rosie was not fully aware of just how valuable a Gibson Les Paul Standard in Sunburst from 1960 was.

In August 2021 Rosie contacted John Shults (founder and owner of True Vintage Guitar) to sell it. John from True Vintage Guitar connected Rosie to a guitar collector that gave her a price for this guitar & amplifier that really blew her away.

John from True Vintage Guitar is a good friend of ours. When we heard about the guitar with all the documentation and provenance back in August, we were very interested to get this historical piece. We contacted John to see if he could get us in contact with the collector and hear if we was interested in selling the guitar with the amp. Thankfully John Shults was the man to make it happen. Fast forward to February 2022 we finally got this beautiful Gibson Les Paul Standard “Burst” with the matching Gibson amplifier. We are thrilled and incredibly exited.

Three years later in February 2025, we have fortunately enough been able to buy it back from the person we sold it to back in 2022.

The condition and originality of this original 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard “Burst”

This Gibson Les Paul standard is today nicknamed; Rosie. Overall, this is an amazingly clean original Gibson Les Paul ‘Burst’. It has remained with its original owner since it was bought brand new in 1960 and all the way up to August 2021. Further more, it’s especially rare because it has all the paperwork, tags, documentation that can track the hole history of the guitar. A bullet proof burst and as for originality, this guitar is all original throughout! It is exactly like it left the Kalamazoo factory back in early 1960. Completely untouched and undisturbed from top to bottom.

This Gibson Les Paul standard has a beautiful flamed book matched top that comes in Cherry Sunburst finish. This is a typical late ’59 finish, before Gibson went over to the so-called ‘Tomato Soup Burst’. The color is still strong with minor fading and the back of the whole guitar is still very strong Red with almost no fading. It features 1-piece mahogany body, 1-piece mahogany neck, dark rosewood fingerbord with trapezoid celluloid inlays. The neck profile is really comfortable and can best be described as a typical ’60 profile. The original finish is in fantastic shape with minor finish checking.

The original Kluson tuners turns and works perfectly but the tuner buttons (like most of them do) has crumbled a little.
Since they had shrunken over the years like a lot of them tend to do we replaced them to exact replica ones. There are NO additional holes or any extra marks on the guitar from the new set and you can get the maximal potential out of this guitar. The original set of tuners are of course included with the guitar, so the next owner can decide whether or not they want the original ones back on. The original P.A.F humbuckers are absolutely incredible and sound fantastic. They are well-balanced and strong. One ‘double white’ P.A.F in the neck. The pickups covers has never been disturbed and the “Patent Applied For” decal under both pickups are clean as they can be. The control cavity and the toggle switch cavity are undisturbed and factory stock. The original nut and frets are like new and have plenty of life left. The serial number of this ’60 Burst indicates that this guitar was built and assembled in the 1. quarter of 1960. Furthermore it features the 4x original gold knobs, which also indicates that this is an early ’60 Les Paul, since Gibson began using the gold reflector knobs instead of the transparent top hat knobs later in 1960.

Pickups and electronics/wiring remain untouched and intact, with no broken solder joints, no re-wound pickups. All original and correct.

Comes complete with its original brown hardshell case with pink interior. Latches and handle are in perfect working order.

Note! Our friend and photographer Eleanor Jane took some beautiful pictures of “Rosie” back in 2022. We are very thankful for the lovely pictures and have included one of them at the end of the product-pictures. That picture was also used in the “Bursts & Goldtops Calendar 2023” which we are very proud of.