Description
Description
Gibson calls the J-45 its “workhorse guitar.” This could be due to its versatility, or maybe its balanced tones. It could be its warmth and excellent projection, or even its beautiful, rich low end or clean, articulate highs. But it’s most likely because it’s Gibson’s best-selling acoustic guitar of all time, and if you need any more reasons why, how about a stunning single-cutaway? Hand-built with mahogany back and sides and a sitka spruce top with traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing, the J-45 Cutaway 2019 speaks for itself.
About Gibson Montana:
Luthier Orville Gibson founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI in 1902. Its original aim was to make mandolins and mandolin-family instruments. Over the last 100-plus years, Gibson Brands, Inc., as it is now known, has since evolved into the world’s premier manufacturer of semi-hollow and hollow body electric guitars, as well as a celebrated portfolio of innovative solid-body and acoustic models.
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.” So wrote Montana author Jim Harrison, perhaps about the master luthiers of Gibson Montana, which produces all of Gibson’s acoustic guitars.
Body Shape: J-45
Top: Sitka Spruce
Back and Side Wood: Mahogany
Bracing: Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Binding: Multi-ply top, single-ply back
Finish: Nitrocellulose
Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Profile: Slim Taper
Scale Length: 24.75''
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 12''
Number of Frets: 20
Frets: Standard
Nut Material: Tusq
Nut Width: 1.725''
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl dots
Tuner Plating: Nickel
Bridge: Traditional belly up
Saddle Material: Tusq
Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatics w/ kidney buttons
Pickguard: Tear Drop
Truss Rod Cover: B/W
Bridge Pins: Tusq
Pickup: LR Baggs™ VTC
Controls: Volume and Tone controls in soundhole
Strings: 0.053, 0.042, 0.032, 0.024, 0.016, 0.012
Case: Gibson Hardshell
Other: Includes Gibson Accessory Kit
About Gibson Montana:
Luthier Orville Gibson founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI in 1902. Its original aim was to make mandolins and mandolin-family instruments. Over the last 100-plus years, Gibson Brands, Inc., as it is now known, has since evolved into the world’s premier manufacturer of semi-hollow and hollow body electric guitars, as well as a celebrated portfolio of innovative solid-body and acoustic models.
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.” So wrote Montana author Jim Harrison, perhaps about the master luthiers of Gibson Montana, which produces all of Gibson’s acoustic guitars.
Body Shape: J-45
Top: Sitka Spruce
Back and Side Wood: Mahogany
Bracing: Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Binding: Multi-ply top, single-ply back
Finish: Nitrocellulose
Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Profile: Slim Taper
Scale Length: 24.75''
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 12''
Number of Frets: 20
Frets: Standard
Nut Material: Tusq
Nut Width: 1.725''
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl dots
Tuner Plating: Nickel
Bridge: Traditional belly up
Saddle Material: Tusq
Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatics w/ kidney buttons
Pickguard: Tear Drop
Truss Rod Cover: B/W
Bridge Pins: Tusq
Pickup: LR Baggs™ VTC
Controls: Volume and Tone controls in soundhole
Strings: 0.053, 0.042, 0.032, 0.024, 0.016, 0.012
Case: Gibson Hardshell
Other: Includes Gibson Accessory Kit