Crafted in the image of the original Les Paul Standard, the Les Paul Futura is made from a solid mahogany back with modern weight relief for enhanced resonance and a lighter strapped-on feel, with a carved plain maple top. Its glued-in maple neck sports a ’60s Slim Taper profile, and a rosewood fingerboard incorporates 22 cryogenically treated frets for long life, along with traditional trapezoid inlays and a commemorative 120th Anniversary inlay at the 12th fret.

The guitar carries a unique pairing of a "hot-vintage"-style BurstBucker 3 in the bridge position and a new P-90H Sidewinder humbucker in the neck position. They’re wired through the traditional complement of independent volume and tone controls and a three-way selector switch, but updated with coil-split switching and launched into the stratosphere with Gibson's new onboard 15 dB boost.

The Les Paul Futura is an unprecedented live performance machine thanks to its factory-installed Min-ETune tuning system, which automatically retunes your guitar on demand in seconds, or calls up any one of 12 factory or 6 user preset tunings at a simple strum of the strings. A chrome Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece lock the strings down for optimum sustain, while enlarged strap buttons (new for 2014) keep your guitar secure throughout the set. Black Supreme Grip speed knobs provide optimum on-the-fly control manipulation.

The Les Paul Futura 2014 comes protected in a black hardshell case and includes a truss-rod wrench and owner’s manual.