Seeing triple? You will think you are hearing triple when you play this thing. I call it the Orange crusher. Let me state right up front that I LOVE THIS GUITAR!!! I decided I had to have one after hearing it being played on the idiot box by Kenny Vaughn( guitarist with Kim Ritchie)One minute it sounded like a big fat Jazz guitar next minute it was a jangly, ringing Gretsch ( but with way more cojones) next second it was a wailing les paul/ 335 cross. I was blown away by the tones and proceeded to TRY to buy one. Way easier said than done. I looked at Gruhn. I looked at Elderly. I looked at practically every dealer on the net. No dice. I wandered into a local store in Savannah Georgia and there it was gleaming on the wall in the afternoon sunlight like Tony the Tiger wearing a bunch of gold jewelry. Orange as hell. Gold everywhere. Did the Incas make this thing? Black striped orange laquered tiger maple that has the grain bookmatched from the top to the sides all the way around the back. Holy shit! Wraparound bookmatching!The orange finish is nitro-cellulose and mirror perfect. The workmanship, unlike on several Les Pauls I have seen recently, is flawless. I plugged it into a Fender Vibro-Queen and tried it for about 15 minutes and then coughed up the $2600.00. List is $4338.00 at the time. A much better value than the Les Paul line.     This guitar comes with 011's and a wound G. Scrap the wound G but do not go lower than 011 with any Bigsby equipped guitar. With the 011 set this guitar stays in tune as well as any I own. The sound is FAT! For a real tone feast plug one of these babies into a Matchless. My John Jorgenson signature Matchless with the Orange crusher is sooo thick sounding. Any other guitar sounds pretty thin after playing this thing for a while. The pickups are PAF type medium output humbuckers with a very sweet tone. Alnico. What a wonderful alloy. Al-uminun, NI-ckel, CO-balt for those that do not no what ALNICO stands for. It stands for TONE! I really like the machine heads( unlike those PRS abominations) with the built in speed winders. Very cool.     The guitar is for people with large hands. Even for me the neck is a handful. Not a half dowel piece of poo like some LP necks but certainly bigger than say a PRS wide fat. The GENT is wide fat podna. 1 3/4 " at the nut . Thickness and roundness wise, it reminds me of an old Harmony or Silvertone. The scale is an unusually long ( for Gibson) 25.5". The usual Gibson electric is of course 24.75" The added scale lenght adds clarity and sustain. The neck is round,cheeky and meaty.Hey fat necks sound fat. More wood = more tone.The neck joins the body at the 14 fret for super solid construction and sustain. The fret work is bee-you-tee-full. The are perfectly crowned with nicely rounded ends. I polished them with crocus cloth and lemon oil to a semi-mirror finish. There is a center block of "chromyte" a balsa laminate that adds sustain and reduces feedback. Construction is of laminated highly figured maple.One piece front and back.Ebony fingerboard unbound with Mother of toothbrush neo classic inlays. I think they could have sprung for $5.00 worth of abalone but I suppose there is something to be said for using renewable source materials like toilet seats,toothbrushes, hula hoops etc.     This guitar is actually plenty loud enough acoustically to play without an amp. It sounds very good acoustically with a very nice (Taylor like) upper range with a beautiful natural reverb. It reminds me of playing a piano with the sustain pedal down.Add the very musical and expressive Bigsby and you can see and hear Chets' influence on the design.An overused term for sure but this guitar really IS a "lap piano" as well of being capable of producing the tones of Denny Dias, Claptons' 335 at the Fillmore, Neil Youngs' raging Les Paul/ Bigsby and many other great sounds. Anything a 335 or Gretcsh can do the orange crusher can do better. The tone control is one of the most useful that I have used . It just takes the hard edge of the high end very subtly down to about 5 when it starts to roll off more of the highs.There are 2 volumes( 1 for each pickup) a master tone and master volume.   Is ANYTHING not great about this guitar? The switch rattles a little in the middle position. It could use a washer.I HATE the acrylic inlays. They are out of place on a guitar of this quality.That is it. I LOVE everything else about this guitar. You simply have to hear one to believe the tone. Great for Jazz, blues,country,rock. You name it. This is the most Gibson for the money. Get your wallet out and buy one!   This guitar is a 10. It gets a Dorians' hot guitar award.