The Gibson name may make you think of the Les Paul or the SG, but one of its stranger creations has just joined the guitar-maker’s Custom Shop line-up: the ...
Gibson was constantly tweaking the Firebird design during the 1960s, and the Platypus variant comes from the epicenter of ...
Just look at that headstock and those fingerboard inlays, 8-point stars fashioned from eco-friendly agoya (also known as akoya). But with May officially in the Gibson artist family it was just a ...
Gibson was able to put the universe on it ... and a rosewood fretboard with agoya shell 8-point star inlays. The headstock also features a stunning 8-point agoya shell star inlay, as well as ...
and acrylic trapezoid inlays. Jutting out from that fast-playing neck is its defining platypus headstock, which is adorned with Grover Mini Rotomatic tuners and a Graph Tech nut. Credit: Gibson ...