The new Slash Signature Les Paul Goldtop has become a must-have for guitar collectors and fans alike. So much so that Gibson is sponsoring a contest to win one of the company’s fine new editions of its all-time classic. All entrants need do is make and post a video showing how far they’d go to win one. Would you write a song? Shave your head to sing it? That’s just what Goldtop fan did Steve Huff did for his entry. But don’t call him, er, green with envy for the new Slash Signature edition – ’cause he painted himself gold for the occasion, too! Here’s now bald-’n’-gold Steve singing his original composition, “Slash Goldtop Blues.” Good luck, gold friend!

Celebrating a love affair that began in the 1950s, HOT ROD magazine and the Gibson Custom Shop have welded the raw power of a souped-up automobile to the sweet vintage tone of a ’58 Les Paul to produce the HOT ROD '58. This beautifully reproduced 1958 Les Paul brings to rock and roll what a ’57 Chevy brings to the road.

Music Live, the U.K.’s leading music-making event, will return to the Birmingham NEC in England from Nov. 7 – 9. For the first time in the U.K., Gibson...

As the lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, Slash singlehandedly revitalized the electric guitar with some of the most blistering, colossal riffs known to mortal man. At a time when the spirit of rock and roll and heavy metal was adrift, Slash appeared and with a vengeance slammed it back on course. And he did it with an arsenal of Gibson Les Paul Standards, now immortalized in Gibson’s incredibly popular collection of Slash Signature Les Pauls.

Each year Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments introduces several new models at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass Conference, Music Awards Show and Bluegrass Fan Fest in Nashville, Tenn. This year’s unveiling at IBMA is especially spectacular! New to this product line are three exquisite instruments ― the 27 Deluxe Bubinga Dobro, the Style 5 Deluxe Banjo and The Orville Mandolin. Follow the links below to find out the history behind OAI’s new instruments.

The world wasn’t quite ready for the Gibson Explorer in 1958, as evidenced by production numbers that strained to meet 100 units. Now — 50 years later — those same instruments are some of the most prized collectible guitars in the world, and Gibson USA is proud to honor the legacy of this truly legendary guitar by introducing the new 50-Year Commemorative Explorer.

The most exotic sounding instrument in the bluegrass line up, the Dobro brings haunting, reverberant shades of Hawaiian steel and Delta blues tones to the twang and ramble of this great American musical genre. Now Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments unveils a new Limited Edition Dobro that looks every bit as exotic as it sounds.

Gibson founder Orville Gibson invented the archtop guitar in the 1890s, but in the Victorian era the bigger six-string was but a minor player in a music world far more enamored with a smaller stringed instrument: the mandolin. Given the guitar’s immense and worldwide popularity today, it’s easy to forget how thoroughly Orville Gibson revolutionized mandolin design and construction—but now a stunning new model from Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments is here to bear testament to one man’s massive impact on this diminutive but toneful creation. The Orville Mandolin—an exclusive one-off creation, never seen before and never to be produced again—is constructed with an elegance and artistry befitting Orville Gibson’s legacy. It’s even topped with a soundboard of solid black spruce cut from a tree that grew in the cemetery where this great originator is buried.

Now, Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments is proud to unveil a new and exclusive variation of the Mastertone banjo. Thanks to the input of legendary folk and country-rock banjoist and guitarist Bernie Leadon—a founding member of The Eagles and a first-call sideman from Nashville to L.A. for the past 40 years—the new Style 5 Deluxe Banjo will be available in an extremely limited run of just ten instruments, with a retail price of $8,889 each, including a custom-shaped Gibson hardshell case and Certificate of Authenticity. Its combination of classic features, rejuvenated esthetics and unprecedented playability makes it a rare opportunity for the devoted player and the serious instrument collector.

Gibson USA now proudly introduces two new Robot Guitar models ― the gorgeous Robot Flying V and the Robot X-plorer, both available in Metallic Red and guaranteed to melt paint off your walls. These new Robots had their beginnings back in 1958, when Gibson debuted the iconic Flying V and Explorer and turned the guitar world upside down. Similarly, the Robot Guitar essentially redefined the power and possibility of a guitar when it hit stores last year. Now that Gibson has married the Flying V and Explorer's longstanding legacy with the technological brilliance of the Robot Tuning System, everyone can agree it's a match made in guitar heaven!