Gibson Wes Montgomery, Vintage Sunburst

Wes Montgomery, Vintage Sunburst description:

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