The jack socket is, as you would expect, housed in the strap button with another button being sited on the underside shoulder of the neck. The battery itself is housed in a velcroed pocket attached inside the body on the neck joint. The soundhole-mounted discrete preamp carries volume, phase and mix controls along with a battery test button. The electronics side of things have been entrusted to the LR Baggs Anthem system with their Tru-Mic Technology, which incorporates a condenser mic and their acclaimed Elemental pickup.
In fact the build quality throughout is faultless, superb. Look inside and we find hand-scalloped X bracing to the top and all, as you would expect, is beautifully finished. The flamed maple back is of two-piece construction with a beautiful inlaid seam, this time with three-ply binding.Īlong with the sides, it continues the luscious vintage sunburst, and is finished in a thin nitrocellulose lacquer, which lets the guitar breathe. The large acrylic tortoiseshell scratchplate with the iconic (aaagh!) engraved floral design and the rosewood moustache bridge are the real difference makers visually, giving it a quite unmistakable presence in any company.
Coming to the body itself, which in spite of its hugeness, sits quite comfortably upon your knee, we have a AAA Sitka spruce top with five-ply cream and black binding with the traditional double-ringed rosette. The neck itself is of two-piece maple construction with a walnut seam, joining the body in a compound dovetail joint and bears the same sunburst finish as the rest of the body. Joining the body at the 15th fret, the board itself runs to 20 frets and is beautifully finished off, ending in a flowing double curve where it meets the soundhole. The black truss rod cover, again edged in cream, sits atop the Tusq nut, crowning a rosewood fingerboard with rolled edging, inlaid with the iconic (oh we’ve done it again) mother of pearl crown fret markers. The Gibson legend and crown are in mother of pearl and the machine heads are gold-finished Grover Rotomatics with a ratio of 14:1 - nice. The iconic, (there’s that word again) Gibson headstock sits at an angle of 17 degrees and has added visual definition from the cream binding. It absolutely reeks class, and boy is it big!įrom the top then. Sporting one of the nicest finishes we’ve ever laid eyes upon, described as Vintage Sunburst, it’s a lovely dark tobacco beastie, with classic design accents from the moustache bridge and engraved scratchplate. Coming in a black logoed hardcase - which, pleasingly, has just four catches, all topside - our reactions when it’s revealed is “Wow”. Still, let’s move on and open the box as it were.
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