Product Description
This GIBSON L5 CES has a great neck, is excellent condition and the real deal- one sweet paying guitar with great tone and clarity , great action, and it just sings! Great neck, ebony fret board 1.72 at nut, 2.08″ at the 12th fret, 0.82″ depth at the 3rd fret and 0.95″ depth at the 9th fret. Heavily Flamed Maple everywhere, and beautiful sinking in their spruce. ” A few tiny marks, but carefully stored and played and a tailpiece that has aged over the last 25 years. Reasonable offers considered
Initially produced as an acoustic in 1922 under the direction of famed Gibson luthier Lloyd Loar, the L-5 was Gibson’s first guitar with f-holes. In the 1940s the model became the rhythm box of choice for big band players and later the standard guitar for Wes Montgomery, who would eventually receive a custom model. And it was already one of the world’s most popular guitars when Gibson first electrified the model in 1951.
This L-5 CES is a truly classic instrument with great tone and craftsmanship . Its appearance is both imposing and graceful, with a stylish single cutaway, block inlays, and artfully crafted headstock. The headstock is itself a work of art, bearing a pearl inlay inspired by the urns of ancient Greece. This Beautifully flamed Sunburst L-5 CES has a high-grade small grain spruce top and flamed maple back and rims are highly flamed and gorgeous. Its body is a substantial 17-inches wide, 21-inches long, and 3 3/8-inches deep – dimensions key to its rich, dark, woody tones. Multi-ply binding in black or white accents the top and back, and single-ply white binding outlines the f-holes
The electronics array is pure Gibson, with two patented Gibson humbucking pickups, two volume knobs, two tone knobs, and a three-way selector switch. The Custom Shop’s L-5 CES is outfitted in all gold hardware and features Schaller M6s tuners. The instrument’s ABR-1 bridge has an ebony base and there’s an artfully rendered L-5 trapeze tailpiece.
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