Lester Pelham Blue ’59

Body

BODY

BODY CONSTRUCTIONSolid Body
BODYMahogany
TOP Maple
FINISHNitro Aged (PU New-Look also availabe)
BINDINGCream
WEIGHT RELIEFYes
Neck

Neck

PROFILE50s Vintage (Slim Taper also available)
WOOD Mahogany, Set Neck Long Tenon
SCALE24,75"
TRUSSRODDouble Action
HEADSTOCKOriginal Larson Peghead
Hardware

Hardware

FINISHNickel
STOPTAILGotoh, Aluminium
TUNERGotoh
BRIDGETune-O-Matic Style

STRINGS

D'Addario EXL 110 Nickel Wound
Electronics
PICKUPSAmber Spirit of 59
POTSVintage Style made in USA
CAPACITOR0,047 uF
WIRING
Modern, Hand-Wired
CONTROLS
2V/2T
SWITCH
Switchcraft, 3-Way

ELECTRONICS

Fretboard
WOOD

Indian Rosewood

RADIUS

12“
FRETWIRE
Wagner Medium Jumbo
NUT
Real Bone
NUT WIDTH
42,8 mm
BINDINGCream

FRETBOARD

A guitar with many sounds!

Our Maybach Lester guitars, masterpieces of design and craft, were modeled after the shapes and neck profiles used between 1957 and 1959. The guitar’s magical sound was constantly redefined by hordes of guitarists in the 1960s – as a matter of fact it cannot be grasped. After all, it embraces everything from Peter Green to Slash. Typically, the customers at Amber Pickups for a PAF ask for the following: “It needs to sound vintage but lively, possibly slightly nasal but with a strong bass foundation and shimmering high-end.” And the hand-wound “Spirit of ’59” pickups deliver exactly the straightforward rock sound with which the last decades’ great guitarists have delighted us.

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This guitar design first appeared in 1952 - yet it only became an iconic instrument with the rise of blues rock and the creative guitar heroes’ playing on those legendary 60s recordings.

The MAYBACH® Lester

This guitar design was launched in 1952 in a version that was not fully thought through, but was later given its due with the emergence of British blues rock in the 1960s through the incredibly creative guitar work of young English guitarists. With sounds unbelievable for the time, they celebrated moving music that forever etched the aura of this type of guitar into music and guitar history.

The Maybach Lester is modelled on the body and neck profiles used between 1957 and 1959. And the hand-wound Amber „Spirit of ’59“ pickups deliver exactly the no-frills rock sound that has made the great guitarists of history so beloved.