Accueil » Guitare » Guitare électrique » Demi-caisse » Gibson L5 Custom Wes Montgomery HSWMVSGH1

Gibson L5 Custom Wes Montgomery HSWMVSGH1

DESCRIPTION :

Wes Montgomery utilisait une L5 équipée en P90, jusqu'au début des années 1960, où il commanda une L5 avec découpe et un seul Humbucker Classic 57 près du manche...

Spécifications techniques Gibson Wes Montgomery L 5CES ebony :

Table épicéa
Fond et éclisses en érable
Manche en érable
Touche éb_ne
Diapason 647.7mm
Repères pearl block
20 frettes
Micro '57 Classic
Mécaniques Schaller M6
Chevalet ABR-1
Accastillage doré

The Guitar

Though it all, Montgomery relied on his faithful Gibson L-5CES guitars. His original instruments were typically stock L-5s that came equipped with either Gibson’s single coil P-90 or Alnico pickups. Sometime in the early 1960s, however, as Montgomery’s reputation continued to grow, he ordered a custom L-5 with a rounded cutaway – instead of the sharper Florentine cutaway – and a single humbucker pickup situated at the end of the fingerboard. It is this guitar that Montgomery is most associated with, and the guitar he played almost exclusively on many of his most important recordings of the 1960s, up until his untimely death from a heart attack in 1968.

Near-perfect Recreation

The Wes Montgomery L-5CES built today by Gibson Custom is built to the same specifications as the instrument used by Montgomery in the 1960s – Gibson also produced it briefly as a production model during the same era. Today’s Wes Montgomery model features a body crafted with a high-grade spruce top, and high-grade maple back and sides. The body is then adorned with multi-ply black and white binding on both the top and back, with single-ply white binding around the f-holes. The gold hardware includes an ABR-1 bridge with a base made from ebony, and Gibson’s period-correct L-5 tailpiece. The 25½-inch scale length neck is a five-piece neck made primarily from high-grade maple, with two streamers made from high-grade walnut, resulting in one of the most stunning neck designs in the history of Gibson Custom. The eye-catching neck is topped by a 20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays and multi-ply black and white binding, then hand-fitted with Gibson’s traditional ES-rounded neck profile. The single pickup is Gibson’s legendary ’57 Classic, which faithfully captures the unique and subtle variations between coil windings of the original “Patent Applied For” humbuckers of the late 1950s, and delivers a warm and full tone with a balanced response. Other appointments include Gibson’s traditional flower pot inlay on the headstock, and Schaller M6 tuners. Indeed, Montgomery’s talents have inspired a generation of guitarists, but his guitar and legend lives on in the Wes Montgomery L-5CES from Gibson Custom. The guitar is available in Vintage Sunburst, Wine Red, Natural and Ebony finishes, and come with a Gibson Custom case and a certificate of authenticity.

Finition : Vintage sunburst