The pickguard is standard J-200 size and shape with its four open white blossoms, 10 pearl or abalone buds, with the leafy vine connecting all of this flora. The face of this instrument appears to be select Sitka spruce, with a good deal of cross-silking (also called medullary rays) – those horizontally positioned light reflecting grain lines that are found only in the finest close-grained spruce. The fingerboard ends with a carat at the center of the bottom.
Below the Gibson crown or flower is a white laminated border black Gibson plastic bell-shaped truss rod cover etched with the word “Custom.” The single-ply ivoroid bound East Indian rosewood fingerboard is inlaid with 8 intensely colorful Paua abalone J-200 style crowns. Surrounding this elegant headstock are six Grover large rounded-back gold-plated tuners each with four stripes and the “Grover” logo. Both of these are contrasted by the jet black headstock overlay that is bordered in ivoroid-black-ivoroid and has the traditional center detent at top as do nearly all Gibson instruments. It is a fanciful replication of a prewar model that was never made – the best of old combined with new ideas - in that it has a prewar style script Gibson abalone headstock logo in (no doubt) Paua shell, reflecting a rainbow of color, and an equally colorful abalone Gibson crown of flower inlaid thereunder. One of the most tasteful and yet unusual variations on the Gibson J-200, this is configured in unexpected and delightful ways. #12383034, in near mint condition with original hard shell case.
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