Gibson Les Paul Custom with Bigsby vs Ibanez AT100CL-SB
The Gibson Les Paul Custom with Bigsby and the Ibanez AT100CL-SB are both electric guitars sharing modulated, dynamic, low gain. The Gibson Les Paul Custom with Bigsby leans sustaining and transparent.
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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.54% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
- Jazz
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- modulated
- dynamic
- low gain
Gibson Les Paul Custom with Bigsby
Gibson · electric guitar
Ibanez AT100CL-SB
Ibanez · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5194.72via Reverb
This entry covers a Gibson Les Paul Custom fitted with a Bigsby vibrato, a configuration Gibson has offered periodically across its Custom Shop line, from three-pickup 1957-spec reissues to more recent limited runs, adding pitch modulation and vibrato character to the Les Paul Custom's usual fixed-bridge, all-mahogany voice. Jack White has been documented using multiple custom Gibson guitars in the studio, including during the recording of Help Us Stranger, and Les Paul Customs with Bigsby hardware fit the raw, vintage-inflected aesthetic White consistently favors across his gear choices. As with any Bigsby-equipped Les Paul, the added hardware changes both the visual profile and the playing feel compared to a standard fixed-bridge Custom, trading some sustain for expressive pitch-bend capability.
The Ibanez AT100CL, shown here in Sunburst, is Andy Timmons's signature model, built on Ibanez's RG body shape but leaning closer to a Stratocaster in feel thanks to an alder body, 22 frets, and a Wilkinson-Gotoh synchronized tremolo rather than the double-locking systems common on other RG guitars. It runs DiMarzio Cruiser pickups in the neck and middle with a hotter DiMarzio AT-1 in the bridge, matched to a bolt-on maple neck using Ibanez's All Access neck joint for smooth upper-fret access. Timmons, known for melodic, vocal-like phrasing across his solo instrumental work and his time in Danger Danger, uses this Strat-adjacent alder build to favor expressive touch and dynamics over the extreme high-output specs found on Ibanez's more metal-oriented signature lines.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- Metal
- sustaining
- transparent
- spring