T he 1957 Les Paul Junior Single Cut Heavy Aged in TV Yellow. We’re drawing on originals.” Exploring the collection “With all that information, there’s no guessing in this process. “Every time we get an original instrument, we put it through that process scanning, we do a very detailed photographing of it,” he says. In order to build the Murphy Lab collection, the company dipped into its own vault, scanned original guitars from customers, and Gueikian even volunteered some of his own personal collection to become part of the lab’s reference library. While the Murphy lab team have some of the most experienced eyes in the industry for this kind of detail, Gibson relies on high-res 3D scanners that take thousands of images of each guitar over a roughly two-hour period. The 1959 ES-335 in Ultra Light Aged Vintage Natural. “You have to look at how that particular model and that particular wood reacts to decades of aging and checking.” An experienced expert can often pick out fake age almost immediately. “Somebody who doesn’t know better will try to age a guitar and they’ll grab a razer and start checking the lacquer,” says Gueikian. It’s an essential part of making a guitar appear aged. People in the guitar community call this process checking. As that lacquer ages, it develops an elaborate pattern of small cracks. Every Gibson guitar gets a coat of nitrocellulose lacquer to protect the wood structures.
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