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KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY” LES PAUL STANDARD

Explore three models — from Epiphone, Gibson, and the Gibson Custom Shop — paying homage to one legendary Les Paul Standard.

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EPIPHONE KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY”

1959 Les Paul Standard

  • Gibson USA Greenybucker pickups with neck pickup reverse-mounted and complete with a reverse-polarity magnet
  • Collaboration with the Gibson Custom Shop ensures authenticity and accurate details
  • Gibson-style “open book” headstock shape, for the first time on a core Epiphone model
  • Grover® Rotomatic® tuners with spade-style buttons
  • Vintage-style brown and pink hardshell case included

$ 1,499

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KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY” LES PAUL STANDARD

This core model gives players around the world the opportunity to experience some of the magic of “Greeny” for themselves. Built in our main craftory in Nashville, Tennessee, this guitar features a mahogany body and neck, a AAA figured maple top, and an Indian rosewood fingerboard. Though it does not come with Murphy Lab aging, its Greenybucker neck pickup’s reversed magnetic polarity bewitches this guitar with Greeny authenticity.

$3,199

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KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY” LES PAUL STANDARD

This core model gives players around the world the opportunity to experience some of the magic of “Greeny” for themselves. Built in our main craftory in Nashville, Tennessee, this guitar features a mahogany body and neck, a AAA figured maple top, and an Indian rosewood fingerboard. Though it does not come with Murphy Lab aging, its Greenybucker neck pickup’s reversed magnetic polarity bewitches this guitar with Greeny authenticity.

$3,199

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CUSTOM SHOP KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY” 1959 LES PAUL STANDARD

This model of Kirk Hammett “Greeny” 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar has been crafted by our expert luthiers at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, and artfully hand-aged by the Murphy Lab to match the original. A brown/pink Lifton™ reissue 5-latch case is also included.

$19,999

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CUSTOM SHOP KIRK HAMMETT “GREENY” 1959 LES PAUL STANDARD

This model of Kirk Hammett “Greeny” 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar has been crafted by our expert luthiers at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, and artfully hand-aged by the Murphy Lab to match the original. A brown/pink Lifton™ reissue 5-latch case is also included.

$19,999

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KIRK HAMMETT TALKS ABOUT THE GIBSON CUSTOM SHOP “GREENY”

No other guitar has earned legendary status like “Greeny,” the magical 1959 Les Paul Standard now owned by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. Here, Hammett talks about the history of the instrument, and how the Gibson Custom Shop and Murphy Lab carefully reproduce it.

KIRK HAMMETT TALKS ABOUT THE GIBSON CUSTOM SHOP “GREENY”

No other guitar has earned legendary status like “Greeny,” the magical 1959 Les Paul Standard now owned by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. Here, Hammett talks about the history of the instrument, and how the Gibson Custom Shop and Murphy Lab carefully reproduce it.

NEW FROM THE PICKUP SHOP

The Artist Collection

We’re launching the Artist Pickup Collection with recreations of two of the most important and mythologized pickups of all time – the pickups found in the legendary “Greeny” Les Paul.

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Kirk Hammett

Celebrating the iconic Metallica guitarist and his collaborations with Gibson

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Gibson Playlist: Greeny

Hear this storied Les Paul Standard in the hands of Peter Green, Gary Moore, and Kirk Hammett. Featuring fifty years of great tracks by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Thin Lizzy, Skid Row, and Metallica.