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Every once in a while, a guitar appears that feels less like an instrument — and more like a relic recovered from deep space. The Gibson Custom Shop Greatest Hits II Murphy Lab 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue Beauty of the Burst #78 is exactly that kind of discovery. Painstakingly recreated from the legendary Burst documented on page 78 of Yasuhiko Iwanade's iconic Beauty of the Burst — the definitive reference on the most revered Les Pauls ever built — this instrument represents the most historically specific and documented recreation in the Interstellar Guitars fleet. The Interstellar Tone Traveler has encountered extraordinary '59 reissues across this collection, but none tied to a specific, named, catalogued original with this degree of scholarly and tonal reverence. The slightly faded Cherry Sunburst Murphy Lab Light Aged nitrocellulose finish glows with the exact character of the documented original —