“When Gibson presented this bespoke one-off Les Paul guitar to my father onstage as a 50th Anniversary gift in 2002, he was profoundly moved. This White Custom signifies half a century of Les and Gibson working together, the trials and tribulations, and fifty years of a single instrument forever changing the musical world as we know it.

To him, this beautiful guitar represented a lifetime of struggle, his dreaming, inventing, and his sacrifice. To watch his solid-body concept evolve from that rough, scrappy ‘Log’ prototype into this sleek, master-crafted beauty absolutely blew his mind. This is the very instrument that finally vindicated all the early rejection and his relentless dedication. That is why he called this piece his ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.’

To the uninitiated, this may simply look like just another Gibson Les Paul White Custom. But to Les, this instrument was the ultimate culmination of a lifelong dream of the solid-body electric guitar. That is why he chose this very special instrument to be featured on the cover of his one and only autobiography, Les Paul - In His Own Words. It was the physical, undeniable manifestation of his vision made real.”