1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop

The 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop is a solid-bodied electric guitar with a gold-finished body - which was only in production between 1952 and 1958 (although there have since been Goldtop reissues). It was built with a solid mahogany body & neck, maple top, rosewood fingerboard and tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece. The pickups are two Gibson Patent-Applied-For P90 Humbuckers (later abbrieviated to PAF) - these guitars and the Les Paul customs were the first to have those types of pickups, which was to be officially patented in July 1959.

Andy Summers owns an original '57 Les Paul Goldtop, which he notably used for studio work with The Police. Specifically on both Ghost In The Machine and Synchronicity.