Led Zeppelin icon Jimmy Page teams up with Gibson to launch new EDS-1275 Doubleneck VOS custom guitar

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Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has unveiled a new EDS-1275 Doubleneck VOS custom as part of his partnership with Gibson.It comes as the iconic manufacturer is currently celebrating 130 years of music history, and created yet another double-neck model in collaboration with the rock veteran earlier this year.The two joined forces in a new partnership at the start of the year, and first shared a limited Collector’s Edition version of the guitarist’s iconic double neck axe back in March.Now, the new model is called the EDS-1275 Doubleneck VOS and arrives from Gibson Custom.

Priced at just under £8,800, the spec of the new variant includes a double-cutaway one-piece mahogany body, both necks having a 12” radius, bound Indian rosewood fretboards, aged cellulose nitrate parallelogram inlays and more.“While Gibson has been making double neck electric guitars since 1958, Jimmy was the player who defined the EDS-1275 from the day it was delivered to him,” a description from Gibson reads.“The Gibson EDS-1275 allowed him to play the numerous 6 and 12-string acoustic and electric guitar parts of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ during live performances.

He also later used the EDS-1275 for ‘The Song Remains the Same’, ‘The Rain Song’, ‘Celebration Day’, ‘Tangerine’, and more recently live at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in a November 2023 tribute to Link Wray.”Elsewhere, the manufacturer shares that the design of the VOS model was “made in close collaboration and with significant input from Jimmy Page” and created using a mix of 3D scanning technology and hand-crafting, in a bid to create an effective clone of his EDS-1275 when it was in more-pristine condition.