"A favorite with Country and Western Artists who prefer a flat top electric in a slightly smaller size and cutaway style. Exceptional mellow, resonant tone that is clear and sustaining, combined with quality quality parts, Gibson workmanship and a strikingly beautiful Golden Sunburst finish. Florentine cutaway design for easier access to the higher frets • selected spruce top, Honduras mahogany back and rim, ivoried binding and purfling ring. Mahogany neck with Gibson Adjustable Truss Rod • bound rosewood fingerboard with large pearl inlays, side position markers. Compact, powerful magnetic type with adjustable polepieces • conveniently located volume and tone controls with calibrated knobs for exact setting of volume and tone coloring. Individual enclosed machine head, and new style reinforced rosewood bridge. Specifications: 14 1/4" wide, 19" long, 4 3/8 deep, 24 3/4" scale, 20 frets." (Gibson advertisement pictured in Larry Meiners, Gibson Shipment Totals 1937-1979, p.46.)



Triple-bound on top (w/b/w)
single-bound on bottom
soundhole triple-bound (w/b/w)
white bone bridge, 6 white plastic pins (1 replaced)