This guitar is in very good condition for its age and has only some minor cosmetic wear. This model originally had trapeze tail piece and a thinner rectangular bridge from the era. At some point in its life a conversion was done to it where the trapeze was removed and a standard belly-down style bridge was installed. All the work has been assessed by our techs and it looks to have been very well done by a professional. The original 6-per side strip tuners were replaced with great inividiual Grover heads which while adding some weight to the headstock of the guitar does help a lot in terms of tuning stability. This guitar is currently setup for E flat tuning, it still sounds and plays great in standard but really shines in the slightly lower tuning. A Gibson hard shell case is included.
Here is the writeup from Gibson in the 1966 catalog
"Twelve strings with their special tuning and reinforced tone provide a unique guitar sound - favoured by folk singers, effective in combos and solo. The first three strings are tuned in unison; the last three in octaves. A traditional jumbo size with instrument with fine resonance and response... traditional Gibson tone and quality.
FEATURES: Selected Spruce top, Honduras Mahogany back & rim with attractive ivoroid binding & purfling. Twelve-string, fast, low-action neck of one-piece Mahogany, with adjustable Truss Rod, Rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlays. Special adjustable twelve-string bridge and tailpiece. Tortoise shell finish fingerrest. Chrome-plated, enclosed machine heads. Attractive jumbo size. 16 1/4" wide, 21 3/4" long, 4 7/8" deep, 24 3/4" scale length. 20 frets.
