A Really Fine '62 Melody Maker

This super featherweight guitar weighs just 5.70 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body, one-piece mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Gold "Gibson" headstock decal. Open-back strip tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Black plastic "all-on-one-plate" pickguard with the words "Melody Maker" at the end of the fretboard. Single Melody Maker black plastic-covered single-coil pickup (without adjustable polepieces) with an output of 7.28k. Two controls (one volume, one tone), plus jack input, all mounted on pickguard, the pots dated 1346143 (Centralab Oct 1961). Gold plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. Combination "ridged wrap-over" bridge/tailpiece. This guitar is in exceptionally fine condition, with only a few tiny chips on the edges. Housed in it's original 'Aligator' case (9.0)

"The Melody Maker was originally released [in early 1959] as a single pickup model, available with either a regular (24 3/4") or a short (22 1/2") scale neck.

Between 1959 and 1965, the Melody Maker kept the same basic specifications but went through two successive body redesigns. When introduced in 1959, the Melody Maker had a single rounded cutaway body shape identical to the original Les Paul Junior, but thinner. In early 1961, this was modified to a symmetrical double cutaway with rounded horns and slightly rounded body edges. The last change to the Melody Maker came in 1965, when it adopted the body style of the SG, with pointed horns and with the body edges slightly more rounded. This body design lasted until the Melody Maker was dropped from the Gibson line in 1971.