Gibson Les Paul 1958 vs Gibson Les Paul Custom "The Rebel"
The Gibson Les Paul 1958 and the Gibson Les Paul Custom "The Rebel" are both electric guitars. The Gibson Les Paul 1958 leans full and dynamic. The Gibson Les Paul Custom "The Rebel" leans tight. Current prices: $5199 vs $8304.36.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.46% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
Gibson Les Paul 1958
Gibson · electric guitar
Gibson Les Paul Custom "The Rebel"
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5199via Reverb
$8304.36via Reverb
This entry covers a 1958 Gibson Les Paul with no specific documented owner attached, from the year widely considered the start of the Les Paul Standard's most celebrated production run, when Gibson introduced the cherry sunburst finish that would define the model's most collectible era through 1960. Built with a mahogany body, a carved maple top, and a pair of PAF humbuckers, hand-wound without the later consistency of automated coil winders, guitars from 1958 carry slight variation from example to example in output and tone that collectors have spent decades cataloguing and comparing, a big part of why originals from this specific three-year run command such extraordinary collector prices today.
Zakk Wylde's 1989 Gibson Les Paul Custom, nicknamed The Rebel, started life as a stock black Les Paul Custom during the Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears era before Wylde painted a rebel flag across it out of love for Southern rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, later noticing Poison guitarist Bret Michaels playing a similarly painted guitar the same year. Over time Wylde further modified it himself, sanding the back and sides, relicing the finish, reportedly setting it alight, and covering it in beer bottle caps and graffiti, turning a stock guitar into a genuinely one-of-a-kind instrument. It runs Wylde's usual EMG 81 bridge and EMG 85 neck active humbuckers with gold hardware, and while his Bullseye Les Paul remains his most recognized guitar, The Rebel has stayed a fan favorite in its own right.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Blues Rock
- Hard Rock
- Blues
- Metal
- Southern Rock
- full
- dynamic
- tight