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Gibson 1963 Firebird V Vintage Sunburst
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Features
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Scale length: 24" (610 - 634mm)
Shorter scale length for easier bends. -
Technology: Solid body
Clear, focused, powerful sound with higher sustain -
Body material: Mahogany
Dark, warm sound with strong mids. -
Neck construction: Glued in
Significantly longer sustain than screw-on necks -
Pickup: HH (2x humbuckers)
Full, warm sound with strong mids and highs and pronounced sustain. -
Custom shop: Yes
Individual design, handmade, high quality materials, excellent sound quality. -
Fretboard: Indian Rosewood
Pleasant tactile properties, warm sound quality.
- Color / finish: Vintage sunburst
- Technology: Solid body
- Body shape: Offset
- Strings: 6-string
- Neck construction: Glued in
- Frets: 22
- Scale length: 24.75" (629mm)
- Body material: Mahogany
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fretboard: Indian Rosewood
- Fretboard inlays: Dot inlays
- Pickup: HH (2x humbuckers)
- Neck pickup: Gibson Firebird Alnico 5
- Bridge pickup: Gibson Firebird Alnico 5
- Pickup selector switch: 3-way toggle
- Controls: 2x Volume, 2x Tone
- Bridge / tremolo: Maestro Vibrato
- Hardware: Aged nickel
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Including: Suitcase
- Country of origin: USA
The Gibson Firebird, designed by car designer Ray Dietrich, was first introduced in 1963. What is particularly striking about the visual appearance of the electric guitars is undoubtedly the reverse design, i.e. a "side-mirrored" body and headstock. Gibson also gave the guitar a continuous neck and newly developed pickup. In 1965, Gibson revised the Firebird and reworked the mirrored design, swapped the continuous neck for a glued-in neck and presented new pickups again.
Production of the Firebird was initially discontinued in 1969 due to low demand. Gibson resumed production for a short time in the 1970s, but it wasn't until the 1990s that the Firebird became an integral part of Gibson's product portfolio again.
Today's Firebirds are available in both reverse and non-reverse designs and the continuous neck is also part of it. As is often the case with Gibson , the individual instruments in the series differ in their wood and electronics. The guitars often consist of a 9-ply mahogany body and a walnut neck with neck-through construction / acoustic. The electronics are formed by two switchable humbuckers.
If you want to get an overview of the series , you can find our series overview here .
Top features:
- Reverse and non-reverse design
- Neck-through neck construction
- Humbucker pickups
The US Gibson Guitar Corporation, founded in 1902 by Orville Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was initially known for production mandolins and banjos. Today the company's headquarters are in Nashville, Tennessee and Gibson is one of the world's most well-known and renowned manufacturers of electric guitars.
The Les Paul model , named after its creator Lester William Polsfuss, is one of the most famous and best-selling electric guitar shapes of all time and founded the design of the single cut guitar, which has been copied, adopted and reinterpreted by numerous other manufacturers. The Les Paul is primarily valued for its warm and powerful sound . The humbucker pickup responsible for this, in its common design today, was also developed by Seth Lover at Gibson .
At the beginning of the 1960s, another solid body electric guitar from Gibson appeared, the Gibson SG . Initially intended as a successor to the Les Paul, it became another icon of rock history, thanks in part to Angus Young from AC/DC, and is the basis for the double cut guitar type .
With the Flying V and the Explorer , Gibson is responsible for two body shapes that were far ahead of their time at the time of their release in the late 1950s, but which also achieved legendary status over the years. To this day they also serve as the basis for a variety of heavy guitars , for example from manufacturers such as Jackson or ESP.
The Gibson custom shop produces commissioned work , high-quality one-off pieces and exact replicas of famous models and legendary vintages of their instruments. These are often subjected to an artificial aging process called relicing.
Acoustic guitars have also been produced for almost as long as the company has existed. The J-45 , the Hummingbird , the L-00 and the SJ-200 are among the most popular acoustic guitars in the world and were the instrument of choice for Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
In addition to the instruments already mentioned, you can of course also buy picks , bags and cases or merchandise from Gibson from us.
We are particularly proud to have a Gibson flagship store in our Frankfurt branch. There you will not only find a large selection and exclusive models to try out directly, but you will also benefit from the expertise of our Gibson -trained and certified employees when it comes to advice on the perfect guitar.
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