They were under the impression you might be able to order something like that which I doubted given how they have deleted the LP line altogether. OTOH, if Gibson is thinking of reintroducing the LP shape as a bass, this might be a worthy way to do it. I'll try to procure some more info on this particular specimen. Possibly, even the Custom Shop might have been at work here.
Uwe
PS: Sending in the troops? Last time we sent German troops to the shores of the US we did so via U Boat and in civilian clothes. Those dozen German insurgents (with a US background - they had all lived in the States - so they could "melt into the US population" and supposedly wreak havoc via sabotage ***) didn't last long until you had them caught and shot (or electrocuted?) as spies. Not a good experience. I think this time we'll just wait for your mounting national debt to be turned into equity via transfer of land.
Me, I want a part of Nashville with that guitar company on it.
*** That just goes to show how naive Nazi Germany was about the sleeping giant it had woken with its delaration of war, a dozen saboteurs to have the US economy grind to a halt? How silly. Now if we had sent investment bankers it could have been a different story... but those hadn't been invented yet!!!