Description
This isn’t your average J-45, but then again the J-45 was never average to begin with. Gibson gives their best-selling acoustic guitar a suite of upgrades, hand-building it with rosewood back and sides and a sitka spruce top with traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing, as well as colored rope binding, gold fret wire, graduated Mother-of-Pearl split diamond inlays, gold hardware, hand-sprayed rosewood finish, bound peghead and an LR Baggs VTC. John Henry had his hammer. This is yours, but his was never gold.
About Gibson Montana:
Luthier Orville Gibson founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI in 1902. Its original aim was to make mandolins and mandolin-family instruments. Over the last 100-plus years, Gibson Brands, Inc., as it is now known, has since evolved into the world’s premier manufacturer of semi-hollow and hollow body electric guitars, as well as a celebrated portfolio of innovative solid-body and acoustic models.
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.” So wrote Montana author Jim Harrison, perhaps about the master luthiers of Gibson Montana, which produces all of Gibson’s acoustic guitars.
Serial #: 13319035
Weight: 5lbs 3.8oz
Body Shape: J-45
Top: Sitka Spruce
Back and Side Wood: Rosewood
Bracing: Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Binding: Multi-colored rope top, single-ply back
Finish: Nitrocellulose
Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Profile: Slim Taper
Scale Length: 24.75”
Fingerboard Material: Richlite
Fingerboard Radius: 12”
Number of Frets: 20
Frets: Gold
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.725”
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl split diamond with brass border
Tuner Plating: Gold
Bridge: Traditional belly up
Saddle Material: Bone
Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatic w/ kidney buttons
Pickguard: Tear drop with gold border
Truss Rod Cover: Deluxe
Bridge Pins: Tusq
Pickup: LR Baggs™ VTC
Controls: Volume and Tone controls in soundhole
Strings: 0.053, 0.042, 0.032, 0.024, 0.016, 0.012
Case: Gibson Hardshell
Other: Includes Gibson Accessory Kit
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