Description
Description
Available for the first time in the United States and manufactured exclusively for Chicago Music Exchange, the vintage-inspired Gibson Montana Limited 1959 Southern Jumbo Tight Kustom Burst was initially built solely for Japanese retailers and blends modern Gibson specs, like a thermally aged Sitka spruce top and smaller 1.68” bone nut, with historic components like mahogany back and sides, white button tuners, bone saddles, ‘50s-style neck profile, and an exclusive Tight Kustom Burst finish for modern feel and increased response while remaining vintage to the bone.
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 Style: J-45
Back: Mahogany
Top: Thermally Aged Sitka Spruce
Bracing: Traditional X-bracing, non scalloped
Neck: Mahogany
Neck Profile: 59 Profile
Neck Width: 1.68’’
Neckjoint: Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale Length: Short
Number of Frets: 20
Nut: Bone
Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Parallelograms
Binding: Multi-ply top, multi-ply back
Bridge: Rosewood Traditional Belly up
Tuners: Gotoh White Button
Plating: Nickel
Case: Black Gibson Hardshell
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 Style: J-45
Back: Mahogany
Top: Thermally Aged Sitka Spruce
Bracing: Traditional X-bracing, non scalloped
Neck: Mahogany
Neck Profile: 59 Profile
Neck Width: 1.68’’
Neckjoint: Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale Length: Short
Number of Frets: 20
Nut: Bone
Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Parallelograms
Binding: Multi-ply top, multi-ply back
Bridge: Rosewood Traditional Belly up
Tuners: Gotoh White Button
Plating: Nickel
Case: Black Gibson Hardshell