Given his background in visual arts, with credits for the makeup and special effects on blockbuster films like
, and long before guitar stardom beckoned in Tool, the recent batch of Adam Jones signatures under a new partnership with Gibson were never going to be run-of-the-mill. In 2020, the American brand unveiled its top-end Custom Shop recreation of his prized 1979 Les Paul Custom, which came with a headstock mirror and personalised graphic – 79 of which were aged by the Murphy Lab before being signed and numbered by the guitarist himself. Last year’s Standard model featured a similar graphic and personalised truss rod cover, though interestingly it’s the more affordable interpretations under Epiphone that
