Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka has partnered with Gibson for a limited-edition manufacturing run SG modelled after the now-iconic 1961 Les Paul SG that helped form his sound.

Handcrafted in Nashville and accessible solely in restricted numbers, the Jake Kiszka SG Commonplace honours the soul and captures the essence of Kiszka’s cherished guitar – nicknamed his “Beloved” – with its iconic double-cutaway design, elegant contours and deep-edge bevelling.

Elsewhere, the guitar incorporates a SlimTaper mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and acrylic trapezoid inlays that provide an “ethereal glow” below stage lights.

“Distinctive tuning stability” is granted by a Graph Tech nut and Gibson Classic Deluxe tuners with keystone buttons, whereas the guitar additionally sports activities an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with a Cease tailpiece, positioned beneath a Sideways Vibrola cowl, which has been locked for enhanced stability and the performance of a set tailpiece.

The guitar’s tonal palette is delivered by a pair of T-Kind humbuckers, promising “roaring dynamics, articulate readability and high-end chew. Every pickup has its personal impartial quantity and tone controls, with Orange Drop capacitors for a large expressive vary and “distinctive tonal consistency”.

Lastly, the Jake Kiszka SG Commonplace is completed in a traditional Pale Classic Cherry gloss nitrocellulose lacquer, and is available in a black hardshell case with Kiszka’s customized doubloon brand, together with a hand-signed Jake Kiszka backplate, and customized leather-based strap along with his metallic coin pendant.

“The ’61, this specific mannequin, has outlined me as a participant, and I believe I’ve outlined it in return,” says Kiszka.

Final 12 months, Jake Kiszka joined Guitar.com to take us via his most cherished guitars, and naturally, his “Beloved” Les Paul was entrance and centre in his showcase.

He informed us the story of how he first got here throughout the guitar at a Chicago Music Change retailer, calling the second he plugged it in a second of “divine intervention”.

“It was like lightning cut up from the sky – it was actually unbelievable,” he mentioned. “It was every part that I had been in search of sonically in a guitar my entire life was proper right here.”

Gibson and Kiszka and hoping to impart upon you an identical expertise the GVF guitarist had when he held the guitar in his palms for the primary time…

The Jake Kiszka SG Commonplace is offered now, priced at £2,149. For extra data, head to Gibson.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.