Gibson Custom Shop Slash Signature "Snakepit" Les Paul
guitar · 1996–1997
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 2 sales on record all-time.
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About the Gibson Custom Shop Slash Signature "Snakepit" Les Paul
The Gibson Custom Shop Snakepit Les Paul of 1996 to 1997 is the rarest of the artist's signature guitars: only about 100 were built, and collectors who know the market say around 80 percent went to Japan. It carries a flamed top in the red Snakepit finish with the snake logo in pearl inlay on the fretboard and the embossed Snakepit design on the body, an ebony fretboard, a slim neck and Seymour Duncan pickups. Counterfeits and luthier-built relic copies on Epiphone bodies circulate, so buy with care; the builder who made the originals is still around.
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
Nothing live right now on the platforms we track.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2018 | €28,041$32,500 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Feb 2017 | €27,892$32,500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and September 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 45 discussion threads among 20 owners, 2020-2025. No names, nothing quoted.
For many owners it is the holy grail and the most beautiful guitar Gibson has made, and those who have played one next to the SVOS and the AFD say it was something else, with a grittier, nastier voice in recorded comparisons. The people who have actually had one in their hands are cooler: a Les Paul Standard with a unique finish, nothing special in sound or feel next to the other signature models, and at today's prices a collector's item nobody dares to play; one owner who bought his new in 1996 has kept it as his baby ever since. Owners of real ones say the genuine guitars are consistent with each other, which is how they spot the fakes.