Acoustic Guitars Review

This stunning Gibson acoustic guitar is a takeoff on the 1960’s Dove dreadnought body style and features a truss rod cover engraved with Elvis’ signature. Super-flash looks from gloss ebony finish, split parallelogram mother-of-pearl fretboard inlays, rosewood bridge, checkerboard marquetry, and multi-ply binding. The guitar has a loud, high-integrity tone that comes from a solid Sitka spruce top and solid curly maple back and sides. Round profile curly maple neck. 25-3/4″ scale and nickel Grover tuners. Includes hardshell case.

The Gibson J-250 Monarch acoustic guitar features ultra-exclusive amenities in a stunning and extremely limited anniversary package—only 6 of these 20th anniversary guitars will ever be made. It’s built on a jumbo style platform for a big, beautiful design. The response can accommodate anything from aggressive chording to gentle finger movements. Deep, round tones flow from the guitar with fat, vibrant mid frequencies for a stand-out sound in any group setting. This Gibson acoustic guitar features a solid Sitka spruce top, yielding tremendous balance in the bass, mid, and high frequencies, and ideal tone to accommodate either fingerpicking or flatpicking. The back and sides are rosewood, offering remarkable beauty and powerful resonance. The body and top are connected with hide glue, ensuring the instrument’s longevity. It is finished off dressed with ornamental beauty in the headstock inlays, binding, and the rosette. The headstock features a custom crown inlay, a custom abalone trussrod cover, and a real 2.5mm diamond gem dotting the “I” in the Gibson headstock logo inlay. The J-250 Monarch guitar comes out of the box ready to make your jaw drop—it has the look and feel of an antique six-string handed down through the generations. The antique natural lacquer finish gives it a center-stage presence from top to bottom that you will love from the minute you get it in your hands.

Visually stunning and acoustically amazing, the Gibson Hummingbird has always stood out. The first Hummingbirds were created in 1960. The body shape was unique; Gibson called it a “Square Shoulder” design. Gibson’s design goal was easy on paper, but not easy to do that is, create a guitar specifically designed for vocal accompaniment. A guitar with a voice all its own, yet one that would complement the human voice; not overpower it. Gibson certainly achieved that lofty acoustic goal while making sure the Hummingbird looked distinctive and wouldn’t be mistaken for any other guitar.Today, The Gibson Hummingbird has a fanatical, almost religious following among acoustic guitar players. The particular model selected for inclusion in the Gibson Acoustic Icon series represents the Hummingbird as it would have appeared in the mid 1960s. To make it even more exclusive, Gibson didn’t select just any mid-60’s Hummingbird to re-create, but chose an apparent one-off custom Hummingbird of the era, recently discovered by an international guitar collector.Back in the mid-sixties, dedicated Gibson Hummingbird fans wanted their Hummingbirds to really stand out. The custom order on which this Icon model is based called for block inlays (then found on the Gibson L-5 CES archtop jazz guitar). In addition, the customer ordered the guitar with a custom color combination with a natural-colored top and beautiful dark cherry red body finish This mid-60’s Hummingbird has solid Honduran Mahogany back and sides along with an AAA-grade solid Sitka Spruce top . The body has 6-ply binding on the top and 4-ply binding on the back. The neck is one-piece Mahogany, graced with a fingerboard of hand-selected Indian Rosewood. The bound fingerboard also features the Gibson “birds-beak” design where it meets the body. The neck shape is the Gibson rounded style of the mid-60’s, topped off with a bone nut that’s 1.725″ wide for added playing comfort. The bridge is Indian Rosewood as well, with a period-correct adjustable saddle. To make this guitar even more unique, the pickguard, featuring the original ornate hummingbird design is hand cast from the original mold used in the 60’s. This guitar also includes a custom, form-fitting hardshell case, and signed certificate of authenticity from Gibson.The Gibson Hummingbird has always stood above the crowd of lookalike acoustic guitars. The mid-60’s Hummingbird is a step above all of the other “birds” with its’ custom-ordered features. Its part of a limited availability series of Gibson acoustic guitars Gibson calls “Acoustic Icons,” specially created for us by the luthiers at Gibson. You’ll have to agree, the Mid-60’s Gibson Hummingbird “Special” is an iconic guitar in every sense of the word.