The Gibson Midtown Custom Semi-Hollowbody Guitar, Vintage Sunburst by Gibson USA takes all of the legendary ES properties a step further, maximizing each design goal, while adding a rich, deep resonance all its own. With a trimmed-down and more player-friendly body size that still emulates the lines of the ES models, but built with the chambered solid-wood construction, the Midtown Custom truly embodies the optimum marriage of solidbody and archtop.
The Midtown Custom uses a solid mahogany, strategically chambered for optimum resonance and capped with a solid carved maple top with traditional f-holes. Its solid mahogany neck is carved to a fast, comfortable '60s-style profile that measures .800" at the 1st fret and .875" at the 12th. The neck is topped with a smooth, hard fingerboard crafted from Richlite a fabricated material composed of cellulose fiber and phenolic resin, which offers the constructional and resonant properties of fine hardwood, but with improved durability, for a superb playing feel. Tidy white binding accentuates the fingerboard, while multi-ply binding graces the body and headstock. The rich, dark fingerboard is enhanced with acrylic block inlays plus split-diamond inlays dress the headstock in the classic style of upmarket Gibson models.
The Gibson Midtown Custom a pair of BurstBucker pickups, two of Gibson's finest vintage-PAF-style humbuckers, and classic four-knob wiring with three-way toggle selector. These great humbuckers from Gibson USA are made with genuine unpolished Alnico II magnets and wound with 42 AWG wire, just like the legendary PAFs of the late '50s and early '60s. In the hardware department, the Midtown Custom carries the classic pairing of Tune-o-matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, and a set of premium Grover kidney button tuners up top.
The main features of the Gibson Midtown Custom, Vintage Sunburst include:
- Vintage Sunburst Finish
- Chambered Mahogany body with carved, bound Maple top
- Mahogany neck
- '60s SlimTaper neck profile
- Black Richlite fingerboard
- Acrylic block inlays
- Classic four-knob wiring with three-way toggle selector
- Burstbucker 1 in the neck and Burstbucker 2 in the bridge
- Grover kidney button tuners with 14:1 tuning ratio
- Hardshell case included
Gibson Midtown Custom, Vintage Sunburst (code 90850)
6-String Semi Acoustic Guitar, Mahogany Body, Maple Top, Black Richlite Fingerboard, Vintage Sunburst
£1,099.00 (inc vat)