Gibson Custom Wes Montgomery Hollowbody Electric Guitar Natural

A gorgeous recreation of Wes' guitar with period-correct specifications.








It’s difficult to comprehend one guitar player
having such a profound influence on any one musical genre, much less one
as conspicuously diverse as jazz music. Yet in the span of just a few
years in the late 1950s and early 1960s, jazz legend Wes Montgomery was
able forge a body of work that is still referred to today as the most
important and influential of any music ever recorded by a jazz artist.
Montgomery’s mastery of the guitar is well documented, and the enormous
impact on his peers is recognized time and time again, from Pat Metheny
to George Benson to Joe Satriani, all of whom claim Montgomery as the
virtuoso who inspired them to reach new heights. Montgomery began his
musical journey at the age of 19, listening to the early recordings of
his idol, Charlie Christian, and learning the solos note for note. His
approach to playing jazz involved the heavy use of single note lines,
block chords and octaves, plucking the strings with the fleshy part of
his thumb instead of using a pick. His unique style and technique would
eventually become known as the “Naptown Sound.”


The Guitar
Though
it all, Montgomery relied on his faithful Gibson L-5CES guitars. His
original instruments were typically stock L-5s that came equipped with
either Gibson’s single coil P-90 or Alnico pickups. Sometime in the
early 1960s, however, as Montgomery’s reputation continued to grow, he
ordered a custom L-5 with a rounded cutaway – instead of the sharper
Florentine cutaway – and a single humbucker pickup situated at the end
of the fingerboard. It is this guitar that Montgomery is most associated
with, and the guitar he played almost exclusively on many of his most
important recordings of the 1960s, up until his untimely death from a
heart attack in 1968.


Near-perfect Recreation
The
Wes Montgomery L-5CES built today by Gibson Custom is built to the same
specifications as the instrument used by Montgomery in the 1960s –
Gibson also produced it briefly as a production model during the same
era. Today’s Wes Montgomery model features a body crafted with a
high-grade spruce top, and high-grade maple back and sides.


The
body is then adorned with multi-ply black and white binding on both the
top and back, with single-ply white binding around the f-holes. The gold
hardware includes an ABR-1 bridge with a base made from ebony, and
Gibson’s period-correct L-5 tailpiece. The 25½-inch scale length neck is
a five-piece neck made primarily from high-grade maple, with two
streamers made from high-grade walnut, resulting in one of the most
stunning neck designs in the history of Gibson Custom. The eye-catching
neck is topped by a 20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays
and multi-ply black and white binding, then hand-fitted with Gibson’s
traditional ES-rounded neck profile.


The single pickup is
Gibson’s legendary ’57 Classic, which faithfully captures the unique and
subtle variations between coil windings of the original “Patent Applied
For” humbuckers of the late 1950s, and delivers a warm and full tone
with a balanced response. Other appointments include Gibson’s
traditional flower pot inlay on the headstock, and Schaller M6 tuners.
Indeed, Montgomery’s talents have inspired a generation of guitarists,
but his guitar and legend lives on in the Wes Montgomery L-5CES from
Gibson Custom. The guitar comes with a Gibson Custom case and a
certificate of authenticity.





Features



Single cutaway body
High-grade spruce top and maple back and sides.
Multi-ply black and white binding on both the top and back
Single-ply white binding around the f-holes
25-½" scale-length neck
20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays and multi-ply black and white binding
Traditional ES-rounded neck profile
ABR-1 bridge with ebony base
Gibson’s period-correct L-5 tailpiece
Single ’57 Classic pickup delivers a warm and full tone with a balanced response
Gibson’s traditional flower pot inlay on the headstock
Gold hardware
Schaller M6 tuners






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