The Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Black Beauty borrows all of the specs from the original 1958 Les Paul Custom. Epiphone a leading innovator in designing affordable professional instruments presents the new Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Custom “Black Beauty” available worldwide. Bonamassa purchased the original 1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom in black and the guitar became one of his prized possessions. LP-Shaped Guitar Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Custom Black Beauty: 37 images and 1 video The … Joe Bonamassa “We based my new Epiphone signature on this 1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom,” said JoBo. "I fell in love with it, it’s a great Black Beauty … The mahogany body is a solid piece of wood—no modern weight relief here, folks. “I made it a super playable instrument, throaty but clean, and the lead pick up just barks. As the eighth signature guitar from the pre-eminent blues guitarist of his generation, Joe Bonamassa and Epiphone’s Luthiers collaborated for two years at Epiphone …