The hummingbird is known for its agility and delicate beauty, and the Hummingbird Custom 2019 is no different. At home in the hands of flat-pickers, rhythm players, leaders, you name it–this hummingbird can fly. Hand-built with highly figured koa back and sides and a AAA sitka spruce top with traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing, the square shoulder Gibson Hummingbird Custom 2019’s deep, luscious tones are enough to make any six-stringer come calling. Finish it off with gold Grover tuners with engraved knobs, Orpheum-style abalone inlays, double-ring abalone rosette with additional abalone binding, Hummingbird Custom peghead inlay and iconic Hummingbird pickguard and you’ve got a Hummingbird that just might be the finest of its kind.
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.
Serial #: 12428023
Weight: 4lbs 13.2oz
Body Style: Square Shoulder
Top Species: Sitka Spruce
Back and Sides: “AAA” Figured Koa
Marquetry: Checkerboard
Binding: Multi-ply Top w/ Abalone, Multi-ply back
Bracing: X-Bracing
Neck Species: Mahogany
Profile: Round
Scale: 24-3/4″
Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1.725″
Fretboard Species: Richlite
Binding: Multi-Ply
Inlays: Custom Hummingbird
Number of Frets: 20
Bridge: Richlite Belly Up
Bridge Inlay: Mother of Pearl Dots
Bridge Pins: White
Pickguard: Tortoise Hummingbird w/Inlay
Tuners: Gold Grovers w/Engraved Knobs
Case: Custom Hardshell