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An exception is the year 1994, Gibson's centennial year; many 1994 serial numbers start with "94", followed by a six-digit production number [citation needed]. As of 2006, the company used seven (six since 1999) serial number systems, [ 95 ] [ clarification needed ] making it difficult to identify guitars by their serial number alone.
This is a list of Gibson brand of stringed musical instruments, mainly guitars, manufactured by Gibson, alphabetically by category then alphabetically by product (lowest numbers first). The list excludes other Gibson brands such as Epiphone.
Starting in 1968 Gibson made J-45s as square-shouldered dreadnought-shaped guitars with a longer scale (25.5"), similar to the Gibson Dove. Serial numbers tell us that during '68 and '69 both slope-shouldered and square-shouldered J-45s were made before the model changeover was complete. In the '70s the J-45 was re-labeled as the J-45 Deluxe.
The B-45-12, a 12-string edition guitar introduced in 1961, was the first B-45 model guitar available and the first B series overall. The B-45-12 had a mahogany body and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, and a cherry sunburst finish, and was made with "round" shoulders for the 1961 – 1962 model year and "square" shoulders until the end of its production in 1979.
The first serial number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978. [5] In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094.
The guitar, nicknamed "Gemini", bears the serial number 9 2204, while Greeny is 9 2208. No other guitars were manufactured in between, instead the serial numbers belonged to Gibson manufactured Skylark amplifiers. It is believed by Gueikian and Hammett that the two guitars were built at the same time from the same piece of wood.
1958 saw the introduction of Gibson's new thinline series of guitars. The ES-335, 345 and 355, all came with a semi-hollow body: the wood of the top and back was maple and there was a maple center block inside the guitars which ran the length of the body all the way to the mahogany neck, with a rosewood fingerboard.
Introduced in 1941 as the successor to the ES-100, the ES-125 was an entry-level archtop electric guitar.It had one P-90 single-coil pickup in the neck position, a single volume control and a single tone control.