Gibson Firebird V Electric Guitar w/Case - Classic White (2013)

This guitar is in very good condition with minor cosmetic wear. All parts and electronics are original and in good working condition. The frets are also in very good condition with minor wear and plenty of life left. The guitar has been setup and it is currently strung with D'Addario EXL110 strings. The serial number is hard to make out as it was painted over but from what we can read it looks like this guitar was made in 2013. The original Gibson case is included. From Gibson Conceived amid the chrome and tailfins of the Motor City, forged on the workbenches of Kalamazoo, proven on rock and blues stages around the globe, the Gibson Firebird was one of the most radical instruments the world had ever experience when it hit the scene in 1963, and it's still a guaranteed head-turner today. The Firebird was the brainchild of legendary automotive designer and visionary Ray Dietrich (designer of classic Lincoln and Packard cars), enlisted by Gibson to bolster the guitar lines of the early '60s and help solidify the company's eminent rank among solidbody electric guitar manufacturers. Dietrich's unconventional design was based loosely on both the legendary automobile tailfins of the 1950s, with a touch of the radical look of the Gibson Explorer, introduced five years earlier. Built precisely in the image of this icon, the Gibson USA Firebird V 2010, with its classic "reverse-body" styling and reverse six-in-line "hawk's head" headstock, strikes a pose that remains as truly unique today as it was nearly five decades ago. It retains the visionary "through-body" neck design that increases sustain and resonance, while upgrading the instrument's power with a pair of ceramic-magnet mini-humbucking pickups that look identical to the originals. With its nitrocellulose finish in three eye-catching colors—Vintage Sunburst, Ebony Black, or Classic White—and traditional appointments such as the pearloid trapezoid fingerboard inlays, beveled headstock with black central section, and Firebird pickguard motif, today's Firebird V is visually indistinguishable from its predecessor of the early '60s, but it roars like no 'Bird before it. Considered just too far ahead of its time back in the day, the "reverse-body" Firebird was deleted for a somewhat more traditionally shaped "non-reverse" Firebird in 1965, and remains a rare bird indeed, but the Gibson USA Firebird V brings that radical look and sound back to the hands of hardworking guitarists everywhere. Body Species: Mahogany Body Type: Firebird Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 50 Headstock Type: Firebird Truss Rod Cover: Black with Gold "Gibson" Logo Pickups Neck Position: 495R Bridge Position: 495T Magnet Material: Ceramic Neck Species: Mahogany/Walnut Profile: Hybrid '50s Rounded/'60s Slim-taper Truss Rod: Traditional Adjustable Joint Angle: 5° (+/- 15 seconds) Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 50 Tuners Model: Steinberger Gearless Plating: Chrome Tuning Ratio: 40:1 Electronics Potentiometers: 2 Volume, 2 Tone Controls Type: 300k Linear Volume, 500k Non-linear Tone Coil Wiring: Machine Wound Toggle Switch: Three-way Toggle with Cream plastic tip Output Jack: 1/4" Mono Neck Fit Joint: Neck-thru Fingerboard Species: Rosewood Frets: 22 Radius: 12" Binding: Single Ply Cream Binding Inlays: Figured Acrylic Trapezoids Nut/E.O.B: 1.695"/2.260" Bridge Type: Tune-O-Matic Material: Zamak Plating: Chrome Tailpiece Type: Stop Bar Material: Zamak Plating: Chrome Nut Material: Corian Width: 1.695" Slots: Gibson PLEK System Hardware Knobs: lack Top Hats with Silver Metal Inserts Pickguard: Red Bird Logo Control Plate Cover: Firebird style, solid black Strap Buttons: Aluminum Output Jack: 1/4" Jack