Gibson Custom Shop B.B. King Lucille Legacy - transparent ebony
The legendary Gibson B.B. King Lucille Legacy semi hollow body electric guitar returns to the Custom Shop ES lineup as a core Artist model !
The legendary semi-hollowbody design remains, but the f-holes are gone, in keeping with B.B. King’s personal preferences. The top, back, and sides of the body feature stunning fi gured maple veneer, which isvisible through the Transparent Ebony nitrocellulose lacquer fi nish, making Lucille avery special guitar that’s fi t for blues royalty.
A mono Varitone switch, along with four audio taper CTS®potentiometers and paper-in-oil Bumblebee capacitors, are paired to Gibson Custombucker humbucking pickups.
GIBSON Custom Shop B.B. King Lucille Legacy (BBES355LLTEBGH1) features all of the high-end appointments that are fit for a King. Highlights include gold hardware, a gold “B.B. King”engraved truss rod cover and a TP-6 tailpiece with fine tuners. A “Lucille” mother of pearl inlay adorns the headstock, and the ebony fretboard features split blockmother of pearl inlays.
- SKU Gibson BBES355LLTEBGH1
- Semi hollow body electric guitar with central bloc
- Made in USA
- 2023
- 3-ply layered figured Maple/Poplar/Maple top/back-sides
- Lightweight Maple center bloc
- Mahogany set neck, SlimTaper profile
- Ebony fretboard, 22x mediumfrets
- Scale 24.75"
- Radius 30.48 cm / 12 "
- Neck width 1st fret 4.2697 cm / 1.681"
- Neck width end of fretboard 5.6896 cm / 2.240"
- Gibson CustomBucker humbuckers
- Volume for each pickup
- Tone for each pickup
- 3x positions pickup selector
- Mono Varitone Switch 6x positions
- Paper in Oil Bumblebee capacitors
- CTS 500k Audio-Taper pots
- Gibson Tune-O-Matic ABR-1 bridge
- Gibson TP-6 with Fine Tuners bridge
- Grover Tulip tuners
- Corian nut
- Nitrocellulose finish
- Sold with Gibson Custom Shop hardshell case
- Original strings gauges 10.46
- Euroguitar Reference : 99829
