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The Gibson Limited Edition Melody Maker Flying V Electric Guitar is rock's original rebel guitar at a great price! A marriage of one of the most rebellious styles in the history of rock with the original high-quality 'student line' from Gibson, the Melody Maker Flying V offers an unbeatable package for the rocker looking to strut his or her stuff. The Melody Maker series has made available genuine Gibson guitars for any player on a budget since 1959, the Melody Maker Flying V stays true to this tradition in spades. This straight forward rocker is surprisingly versatile and is without superfluous extras that can get in the way.
Gibson Melody Maker Flying V Electric Guitar Features
- Solid maple body for great clarity, sustain, and detailed tone
- Quarter-sawn mahogany set neck for strength and resonance
- Totally sustainable torrified maple fingerboard gives the look of rosewood with greater durability
- Single Seymour Duncan HB103 ceramic humbucker for versatile tone with lots of power
- PLEK-cut Corian nut for enhanced sustain and ultimate intonation precision
- Limited run of only 600 being made by Gibson
The Melody Maker Flying V guitars are crafted from select tonewoods, carry a Seymour Duncan HB-103 pickup, and are built with traditional high-quality features such as a set-in neck, 24 3/4 inch scale length and 1 11/16 inch width at the nut. In short, nothing is spared in the effort to make the Gibson Melody Maker Flying V, but it comes in a format that saves you a bundle! The Melody Maker Flying V is a limited edition run with only 600 guitars being made from Gibson, so act fast if you want to get a great guitar at a fantastic price.
Tonewoods
Maple has a long history in electric guitar making, and is one of the strongest tonewoods used in luthiery. A body crafted from solid maple gives the Melody Maker Flying V outstanding clarity and sustain, and helps it retain sharp note definition even through a heavily cranked amp, while also allowing a thinner body than most electric guitars. The guitar's glued-in neck is crafted from solid quarter-sawn mahogany for superior strength and resonance, and carved to a superbly fast yet comfortable Melody Maker profile that measures .835 inch at the 1st fret and .930 inch at the 12th. In a contemporary departure from the norm, this neck carries a fingerboard made from torrified maple, a heat-treated form of maple that has the rich brown look of rosewood but is superior in strength and durability, and totally sustainable besides. Rendered in the seminal shape of the original Gibson Flying V of 1958-still one of the most radical guitar designs the world has ever seen-the Melody Maker Flying V guitar has deadly looks, tone, and playability.
Hardware
To give this guitar a punch equal to its heritage, Gibson USA loads the Melody Maker Flying V with one of its most versatile pickups. The single Seymour Duncan HB-103 ceramic humbucker in the bridge position is crafted in the image of Gibson's acclaimed PAF (Patent Applied For) humbucker of the late '50s, but updated with a ceramic magnet for great power, clarity and sustain, and routed through a single volume control to keep it all simple. Go easy and it purrs sweetly; hit it hard, and there's as much crunch, wail and sustain on tap as any rocker will ever need.
Anchored by a timeless and tuneful stud-mounted wraparound bridge at the body end and a set of efficient enclosed tuners at the headstock, with a PLEK-cut Corian nut for enhanced sustain and ultimate intonation precision, The Melody Maker Flying V is an incredible package for the player who wants a slice of full-bore Gibson USA quality at a stripped-down price. Each Gibson Melody Maker Flying V includes a Gibson gigbag and owner's manual, and is covered by Gibson's Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 Customer Service.

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Gibson Melody Maker Flying V Electric Guitar Specifications
- Body:
- Species: Maple
- Body Type: Slab
- Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 50
- Neck:
- Species: Mahogany
- Profile: Melody Maker
- Truss Rod: Traditional Adjustable
- Joint Angle: 1.75° (+/- 15 seconds)
- Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 50
- Neck Fit:
- Joint: Mortise and Tenon
- Adhesive: Franklin Titebond 50
- Joint Angle Tolerance: +/- .005 inches
- Fingerboard:
- Species: Torrified Maple
- Frets: 22
- Radius: 12 inches
- Nut/E.O.B: 1.695/2.260 inches
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut:
- Material: Corian
- Width: 1.695
- Slots: Gibson PLEK System
- Headstock:
- Truss Rod Cover: Black Antique Bell with Hot Stamp Gold Gibson Logo
- Tuners: White Button
- Tailpiece:
- Type: Wrap Around Tailpiece
- Plating: Chrome
- Hardware:
- Knobs: Black Top Hat
- Strap Buttons: Aluminum
- Pickup: Seymour Duncan HB103 (Ceramic)
- Electronics:
- Potentiometer: 1 Volume Control
- Type: 300k Linear Volume
- Coil Wiring: Machine Wound
- Output Jack: Traditional 1/4 inches
- Finish:
- Sealer: Nitrocellulose
- Process: 1-1.5 mils
- Case: Gigbag
- Limited Run: 600
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| GREAT GUITAR |
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| HEY its GIBSON!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Still to new great so far. |
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| buy one i did! |
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| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| nice lite feel,about 6lbs,neck nice too,control easy. |
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| HOT pickup for none active, smooth to rock on! |
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| good |
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| Nice |
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