• Gibson Explorer Vampire Blood Moon Electric Guitar with Case


 
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More than just a great-looking wood, with a broad and pronounced grain, swamp ash is beloved for its low weight, superior resonance, and balanced tone, with firm lows, a punchy midrange, and sweet highs. In the body of the Gibson Explorer Vampire Blood Moon, swamp ash offers all the power you could ever seek in an Explorer, along with a sweetness you've never heard before. To this, Gibson adds a glued-in neck cut from a single piece of solid quarter-sawn mahogany for superior strength and resonance, and carves it to a slim, super-fast profile that yields unimpeded shred potential right up to the 22nd fret.

Gibson Explorer Vampire Blood Moon Guitar Features
  • Solid Swamp Ash Body
  • Black grain-textured Juju satin finish
  • Slim, Super-Fast Neck Profile
  • Blood Drop Fingerboard Inlays
  • Two Gibson GEM Active Open Coil Pickups
  • Shaller Floyd-Rose Style Tremelo with locking nut
And where does all your vengeance and fury go? Shred, metal and thrash artists have long appreciated the virtues of active pickups, and every fiery lick you throw at the Explorer Vampire Blood Moon gets sucked up and spewed out by a pair of Gibson's new active humbuckers, powered by a 9V battery accessed through its own door in the back control plate. Some of the most powerful pickups ever produced by a company known for pioneering the humbucker, the pickups on the Explorer Vampire Blood Moon offer a new fidelity and clarity that high-output passive pickups have difficulty matching, with a power and presence that goes way beyond anything demanded by the most extreme music. Controls are a straightforward three-way toggle switch, an independent volume for each pickup, and a master tone.

But to really tap your own vein of evil, you demand even more-and the Explorer Vampire Blood Moon delivers. A high-performance Schaller vibrato tailpiece provides everything from hypnotic wobbles to soaring divebombs, all with outstanding return-to-pitch tuning stability thanks to a Schaller Locking Nut at the headstock end. Black Mini-Grover tuners cap off the hardware-while all-black styling with ominous blood-red inlays and highlights accentuate the full menace that this guitar delivers.

The Explorer Vampire Blood Moon comes with a Gibson hardshell case and is covered by Gibson's famous Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 customer service. Sink your teeth in now.

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Gibson Explorer Vampire Blood Moon Guitar Specifications

Body
  • Top: Swamp Ash 
  • Back: Swamp Ash 
  • Type: Chambered 
  • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
Neck 
  • Species: Mahogany 
  • Profile: Fast Explorer Neck 
  • Truss Rod: Traditional 
  • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond
  • Neck Fit:
    • Joint: Mortise and Tenon 
    • Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 
    • Joint Angle Tolerance: +/- .005 in.
  • Fingerboard:
    • Species: Rosewood 
    • Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo 
    • Radius: 12 in. 
  • Nut/E.O.B: 1.695/2.260 
  • Inlays: Red Acrylic Blood Drops
  • Nut:
    • Material: Schaller Black Locking Nut 
    • Width: 1.7 
    • Slots: Gibson PLEK System
Headstock
  • Type : Explorer for Bass Side Tuners 
  • Logo: Red Gibson Silkscreen Logo 
  • Truss Rod Cover: Gibson Bell Shaped Molded 
  • Angle: 14 Degrees
  • Tuners:
    • Model: Mini-Grover Tuners 
    • Tuning Ratio: 14:01 
    • Plating: Black
Bridge 
  • Type: Shaller Floyd-Rose Style Tremelo with locking nut 
  • Material: Zinc Surrounded by a Die Casting Alloy 
  • Plating: Brass and Steel
Hardware 
  • Knobs: Black Top Hat with Red Numbers 
  • Control Plate Covers: Explorer with Battery Box .090 blk 
  • Strap Buttons: Aluminum 
  • Strings: .010 - .046, Genuine Gibson strings
Pickups 
  • Neck Position: Gibson GEM Active Pickup 
  • Bridge Position: Gibson GEM Active Pickup 
  • Magnet Material: Alnico II
Electronics 
  • Potentiometers: 2 Volume Controls, 1 Master Tone Control 
  • Type: 
    • 300k Audio Taper Lead Volume 
    • 500k Audio Taper Non-Linear Master Tone 
  • Coil Wiring: Parallel-Machine Wound 
  • Toggle Switch: Three-way Switchcraft with Red Toggle Cap 
  • Output Jack: 1/4 in. Switchcraft
Finish 
  • Surface Texture: Grain Textured Satin Finish 
  • Sealer: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Case 
  • Type: Gibson Hardshell 
  • Case Exterior: Black 
  • Case Interior: Black
Accessories 
  • Owner's Manual 
  • Adjustment Literature
  • Documentation for the Guitar's Limited Lifetime Warranty



 
 
 
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tone machine
Quality
Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable?
It's a Gibson, so I was pretty sure it would have some mojo.
Reliability
How has it stood up over time?
Just got it , but seems pretty solid.
General
Your general opinion of this product.
A Gibson with a swamp ash body set neck n a German Floyd. Lots of potential.
Playability and Feel
How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing?
Fat neck. ..needs some work in this area, but its worth it.
Tone
Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin?
Great tone
Finish
How did the stain or paint job look?
The case is beautiful. The guitar finish is really light so the guitar can breath n resonates. .
Action
How was the action out of the box?
Now, here's were u need to put some work into the guitar. Action was high, neck adjustment was need it n Floyd adjusted The nut has been shimmed. I've put a lot a of time in here, but it has paid off! ! This guitar just screams. .
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