Beloved since the 1930s for its balanced tone and incredible projection, the L-00 is a true classic. The 2019 L-00 Studio model improves on this legendary, hand-built design with walnut back and sides and a sitka spruce top with traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing. The LR Baggs VTC sings with beautiful, transparent sound, but with the way the L-00 fills a room you may not need it.
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.
Body Shape: L-00
Top: Sitka spruce
Back and Side Wood: Walnut
Bracing: Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Binding: Multi-ply top, single-ply back
Finish: Nitrocellulose
Material: Mahogany
Neck Profile: Advanced Response
Scale Length: 24.75”
Fingerboard Material: Walnut
Fingerboard Radius: 16”
Number of Frets: 19
Frets: Standard
Nut Material: Tusq
Nut Width: 1.725”
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl dots
Tuner Plating: Nickel
Bridge: Rectangular closed slot
Saddle Material: Tusq
Tuning Machines: Mini Grover Rotomatic
Pickguard: L-00
Truss Rod Cover: Studio
Bridge Pins: Tusq
Pickup: “LR Baggs™ VTC”
Controls: Volume and Tone controls in soundhole
Strings: 0.053, 0.042, 0.032, 0.024, 0.016, 0.012
Case: Gibson Hardshell
Other: Includes Gibson Accessory Kit
Note: Due to differences in wood grain, the item you receive may not exactly match the item in the photos.