This 15 7/8-inch-wide Square Shoulder Dreadnought weighs just 4.80 lbs. and has an unusually wide nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid curly maple back and sides, solid Sitka spruce top, three-piece curly maple neck with a medium profile, and triple-bound ebony fretboard with 20 frets and inlaid mother-of-pearl 'twin dove' position markers. Black headstock with inlaid mother-of-pearl "Gibson" logo and seven inlaid mother-of-pearl doves. Three-layer (black/white/black) plastic bell-shaped truss-rod cover with "Custom" engraved in white. Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with 'dove' engraved bell-shaped gold-plated metal buttons. Brown celluloid pickguard with three doves inlaid in mother-of-pearl and trees and foliage etched in green and yellow. Ebony tailpiece with two inlaid mother-of pearl doves and bone bridge.

The top has a seven-ply binding including a wide band of Abalone. The back of the guitar has three-ply binding and a fancy marquetry design down the middle. The soundhole rings are in three groups of three seven and three, the middle one having a wide center band of Abalone. The face of the headstock is triple-bound and the back of the headstock has the "Gibson Custom Shop" decal and the serial number ("01670006") stamped in blind. Orange oval label inside the soundhole with the style ("New Doves in Flight") and serial number ("01670006") stamped in black. This guitar is in mint (9.50) condition. Complete with the original "Gibson Owner's Manual", "Gibson Gold Warranty", "Pre-Pack Checklist" and "Gibson Guitar Humidifier Instructions". A mint (9.50) example, housed in the original Gibson Custom Art Historic black hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.50)

Designed by Master Luthier Ren Ferguson, this guitar is one of the most beautiful instruments to come from the world famous Gibson Custom Shop. They have taken the Dove, one of their fanciest models, and made it even more fancy. From the headstock down, there are seven individually engraved mother-of-pearl doves and even gold-plated tuner buttons engraved with doves. Down the ebony fretboard there are sixteen more inlaid mother-of-pearl doves, three more on the pickguard and another two on the tailpiece - twenty-eight in all. The binding on the top and on the soundhole is richly adorned with blue/green abalone shell and the back, sides and neck are highly figured curly maple. But not only does this guitar look beautiful - it also sounds wonderful…