The Gibson Wes Montgomery model semi-acoustic guitar created by the Gibson Custom Shop is a guitar with inherent quality, versatility, and a rich, impressive appearance which has gained the highest acclaim from professional musicians.
There are very few artist/guitar relationships as strong as that of Wes Montgomery and the L-5CES. Although he originally played stock L-5s with P.90 or Alnico pickups, Montgomery eventually custom ordered an L-5 with a rounded cutaway (in the 1960s the L-5 had been restyled with a sharp, Florentine cutaway) and a single humbucking pickup at the end of the fingerboard. In the mid-1960s, Gibson briefly offered this version of the L-5CES as a production model, and today’s Historic Collection offers it once again with this Gibson Wes Montgomery .
The Gibson Wes Montgomery reissue electric guitar features:
- High grade spruce top
- High grade maple back and rims
- Multi-ply white/black top, back, and neck binding
- Single-ply white binding on f-holes
- Gold hardware
- ABR-1 bridge with ebony base and L-5 stoptail
- High grade maple/walnut neck
- 22-fret ebony fingerboard
- Pearl block inlays
- ES rounded neck profile
- 25-1/2" scale length
- 1-11/16" nut width
- Shaller M6 tuners
- '57 Classic humbucking pickups
- 1 volume, 1 tone
- Vintage Sunburst Finish
- Gibson hardcase included
Gibson Wes Montgomery Archtop Electric Guitar, Vintage Sunburst (code 42102)
6-String Archtop Semi Acoustic Electric Guitar, Gold Hardware, Vintage Sunburst, Including Case.
£5,949.00 (inc vat)