Another of the unveiled-but-not-yet-released model from Guitar of the Month, this one is the guitar that should be released during the month of July, the Gibson Longhorn Double Cutaway Guitar is a strange version of the Les Paul model with some interesting features like double cutaway, bridge with piezo pickup and separate outputs for the magnetic and the piezo signals.
The specifications of the Gibson Longhorn Double Cutaway Electric Guitar are mahogany body with AA maple top, mahogany neck, 50s rounded profile, ebony fingerboard, 22 frets, 24.75″ scale length, L.R. Baggs Piezo Tune-o-matic with stop bar tailpiece, 2 EMG 85 humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch and 1 volume, 1 tone and 1 piezo volume controls.
This model is only available in transparent blue finish and comes with a hardshell case, if you want one of this models you should be fast only 1,000 units will be produced. The Gibson Longhorn Double Cutaway Guitar will be available in July and its price will be $2,250.
I’m sitting here listening to someone noodle around on one of these, and it is a beauty. It doesn’t sound as “Gibsony” as other Gibsons - he’s fooling with the blending and the tone knobs. Wow.
Just really nice, sweet, pretty, raunchy, hard, still sweet.