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The Gibson Firebird V 2010 Electric Guitar features the iconic reverse-body styling and reverse six-in-line ‘hawk's head’ headstock that made the original so unique nearly 5 decades ago. It retains the visionary ‘through-body’ neck design that increases sustain and resonance, while upgrading the instrument's power with a pair of ceramic-magnet mini-humbucking pickups that look identical to the originals. The Firebird V 2010 is the real deal!
Gibson Firebird V 2010 Electric Guitar Features
- Neck-Through-Body Construction and Solid Mahogany Body
- Hybrid '50s rounded/'60s slim-taper
- Trademark ‘Firebird’ logo on Pickguard
- Gibson High-Output, Ceramic Mini Humbuckers
- Steinberger Gearless Tuners
With its nitrocellulose finish and traditional appointments such as the pearloid trapezoid fingerboard inlays, beveled headstock with black central section, and Firebird pickguard motif, today's Gibson Firebird V is visually indistinguishable from its predecessor of the early '60s, but it roars like no 'Bird before it.
Considered just too far ahead of its time back in the day, the ‘reverse-body’ Firebird was deleted for a somewhat more traditionally shaped ‘non-reverse’ Gibson Firebird in 1965, and remains a rare bird indeed, but the Gibson USA Firebird V brings that radical look and sound back to the hands of hardworking guitarists everywhere.
The Gibson Firebird
Conceived amid the chrome and tailfins of the Motor City, forged on the workbenches of Kalamazoo, proven on rock and blues stages around the globe, the Gibson Firebird was one of the most radical instruments the world had ever experience when it hit the scene in 1963, and it's still a guaranteed head-turner today. The Firebird was the brainchild of legendary automotive designer and visionary Ray Dietrich (designer of classic Lincoln and Packard cars), enlisted by Gibson to bolster the guitar lines of the early '60s and help solidify the company's eminent rank among solidbody electric guitar manufacturers.
Gibson Firebird 2010 Electric Guitar Specifications
- Body: Mahogany Walnut neck-thru with Mahogany Wings
- Neck: Nine-ply Mahogany and Walnut
- Profile: 1960 slim taper
- Thickness at 1st Fret: 0.800 inches
- Thickness at 12th Fret: 0.850 inches
- Peghead Pitch: 14 degree
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Frets: 22
- Binding: Single-ply
- Inlay: Pearloid Trapezoid
- Scale Length: 24-3/4 inches
- Nut Width: 1-11/16 inches
- Width at 12th Fret: 2.062 inches
- Total Length: 18.062 inches
- Pickups: Two high-output ceramic mini-humbuckers
- Controls: Two volume, two tone, three-way switch
- Knobs: Black top hat
- Tuners: Steinberger Gearless tuner
- Bridge: Tune-o-matic
- Hardware: Chrome
- Case: Gibson Hardshell (Included)
- Interior: Dark Grey Plush with Black Shroud
- Exterior: Black Reptile Pattern Hardshell
- Silkscreen: Silver 'Gibson USA' logo
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| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| I bought this guitar last year. Must have been one of the last ones available, had an extremely hard time even finding one to buy. It is a stunningly beautiful guitar. |
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| How has it stood up over time? |
| So far, after almost a year, no issues at all. I rotate through 11 electrics, so it doesn't get a ton of play. |
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| I have Les Pauls, strats, teles,SG, PRS, ES, Jag and bought this because it is...well, really cool. It came to me perfectly set up. The case also is very nice, the biggest guitar case I have ever seen! |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| The neck reminds me of my 72 Goldtop. Just a real nice feel and it's easy to get to the upper frets. Took a little getting used to when I first got it, because it feels like the fretboard is longer. |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| I find the tone to be more on the bright snappy side than dark. While it sounds great clean, the pups also have a nice growl to them as well. I think mini HBs sound great. Another thing is it sounds great unplugged. A real nice accoustic resonance. |
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| How did the stain or paint job look? |
| The finish is beautiful. Buffed to the inth degree. The various shades of brown and the white pickgaurd. It's just a striking looking guitar. Most people just say wow when I open the case. |
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| How was the action out of the box? |
| The action was very good. I did not need to adjust at all. |
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