Full Description

Elegant Mahogany Body

Originally designed by car designer Ray Dietrich in the 1960s, who based the design on 1950's car tail-fins, the classic Firebird body shape provided the ultimate comfort and created a renowned style icon. The 2018 Firebird follows the classic lines of the original "reverse-body" Firebirds of the 1960s, offering the iconic elongated offset upper horn and shorter, rounded lower horn to create its memorable "flipped over" appearance. The body is beautifully crafted from solid mahogany, delivering excellent resonance and superior sustain for a beautifully rich, warm tone with plenty of high-end sheen and midrange presence. The Gibson's neck-through-body construction helps improve the overall resonance by allowing the natural vibrations to transfer more easily from the strings and neck to the body.

Slim Taper Neck & Headstock

The Gibson Firebird features a slim taper neck profile to provide incredibly fluid hand flexibility, creating the perfect guitar for playing solos. In keeping with its iconic design, the headstock has been carefully angled at 14 degrees to increase pressure on the strings, helping them stay in the nut slots for extra stability. An increase in string pressure also means there is no loss of string vibration between the nut and the tuners, improving sustain and delivering an overall better tone.

Torrefied Granadillo Fingerboard

The 2018 Firebird's fingerboard is crafted from stunning granadillo, delivering an incredibly bright response with an enhanced natural sustain and a ringing, bell-like tone. Its rosewood-like qualities make it perfect for a wide range of playing styles, offering singing notes with plenty of punch and high-end sparkle. The fingerboard's 22 frets have been cryogenically treated to provide extra strength and durability, improving their resistance against abrasive wear.

Mini Humbuckers

The 2018 version of the Firebird is equipped with a set of beautifully bright mini-humbuckers, designed with an incredible amount of sustain and note definition to suit a wide variety of playing styles. The small size adds to the amazing aesthetic of the Firebird, reminiscent of the humbuckers of old, and provides players with a classic, balanced tone when the two are used together. Independent volume and tone controls allow players to dial in excellent tonal possibilities, while the hard wearing toggle switch lets players switch between configurations.

Aluminium Tune-O-Matic Bridge

As with many of the new Gibson models, the 2018 Firebird Guitar also features an aluminium tune-o-matic bridge. This type of bridge is an extremely popular fixed bridge due to its stability, reliability, comfortable playing position, and impressive sustain. Adjusting the string action and intonation is extremely simple with a tune-o-matic bridge, as you simply adjust its height with the mounting rods to alter the action, and screw the bridge saddles in or out to achieve perfect intonation.

TekToid Nut

The addition of a TekToid graphite nut offers increased harmonics in the middle and upper frequency range, perfect for creating a rich and detailed tone. TekToid Graphite is the best high-tech cure for eliminating undesirable friction within the nut, which can cause tuning problems. It is the ideal choice for a guitar nut, as it has excellent conductive qualities which overall benefit a guitar’s tone and sustain.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Shape: Firebird
• Body: Mahogany
• Bridge: Aluminium Tune-O-Matic
• Tailpiece: Aluminium Stop Bar
• Construction: Through-Body
• Finish: Ebony

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Mahogany
• Profile: Slim Taper
• Scale Length: 24.75”
• Fingerboard: Torrefied Granadillo
• Binding: White
• Frets: 22 Medium, Cryogenically Treated
• Inlays: Acrylic Trapezoid
• Nut: Tektoid
• Nut Width: 1.695”

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Mini Humbucker
• Neck Pickup: Mini Humbucker
• Controls: 2 x Volume, 2 x Tone, Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Mini Grovers
• Control Knobs: Black Top Hats w/Silver Inserts
• Pickguard: White
• Hardware: Chrome
• Case Included: Hardshell