If you want to be in the loop as to what new acoustic and electric guitar models are coming down the pipeline at Gibson your best bet is to follow brand president and CEO Cesar Gueikian on social media, who has a Mozart-esque command of the pre-launch product tease – and he is at it again today, teasing an all-new line of Les Paul Supremes.
The Les Paul Supreme was launched in 2003 and was for all intents and purposes a new Les Paul. It dressed in the fine livery – gold hardware, decorative globe inlay on the headstock, split block inlays – and was in retrospect quite revolutionary, featuring a carved maple back, and a deeper body, though it was chambered to keep the weight down.
