www.frettedamericana.com factory special-order guitar weighs just 5.80 lbs. and has a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Unique single-bound laminated maple body with no sound-holes. One-piece mahogany neck with a medium-to-fat profile and a nut width of 1 9/16 inches. Rosewood fretboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. Headstock [...]
March 9th, 2010 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
www.frettedamericana.com This rare little guitar weighs just 7.20 lbs. Solid mahogany body, one-piece medium profile mahogany neck with a scale length of 22 3/4 inches and a nut width of just over 1 9/16 inches. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 19 original frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Single P-90 pickup with a strong output [...]
February 6th, 2010 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
www.frettedamericana.com This magnificent fifty year old Les Paul Standard ‘Burst’ weighs just 9.50 lbs. and has nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a beautiful medium-flame, wiggly, tight pinstripe, Cherryburst solid carved maple top which has uniformly faded to a [...]
January 30th, 2010 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
www.frettedamericana.com An original 1970 Les Paul Custom that was specially ordered from the factory as a three pickup model. This fantastic “player” guitar was professionally re-finished, probably during the eighties. She weighs just 9.50 lbs. One-piece mahogany body with carved maple top, three-piece mahogany neck with a medium-to-thin profile. White-bound ebony fretboard with 22 thin [...]
January 5th, 2010 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
This very light guitar weighs just 8.50 lbs. and has a very fat nut width of over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a solid carved maple top covered by a bookmatched highly figured maple veneer, one-piece mahogany neck, and bound rosewood fretboard with [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
This superb forty-nine year old Les Paul Standard ‘Burst’ weighs just 8.90 lbs. and has nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a ‘lighty-flamed solid carved maple top which is totally unfaded. One-piece mahogany neck with a typical thin ‘60 [...]
December 24th, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
www.frettedamericana.com This custom-built double-neck (conventional six-string neck in the lower position combined with a twelve-string neck weighs 11.20 lbs. Two three-piece Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany necks, both with a wide nut width of over 1 11/16 inches and a medium-to-thick profile. Four “T-Top” humbucking pickups with outputs of 7.43k and 7.30k on the six-string guitar and outputs of [...]
December 16th, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
This very light guitar weighs 6.80 lbs. and has two Melody Maker pickups. Solid mahogany body, one-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with pearl dot inlays. Combination wrap-over bar bridge/tailpiece. Original “alligator” softshell case.
December 12th, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
www.frettedamericana.com Yes, it really is an original PAF ES-295! This incredibly rare guitar weighs just 6.70 lbs. and has a very comfortable nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Reminiscent of the ES-175, with the same sharp-edged single Florentine cutaway and pearl split-parallelogram inlays, this wonderful [...]
December 9th, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments
One of just 272 of the first year Firebird lll model, this guitar weighs just 8.00 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body, mahogany, neck, and bound rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and inlaid [...]
December 1st, 2009 | Posted in gibson guitars | 25 Comments