The Gibson Guitar Corporation, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of acoustic and electric guitars. The company's most popular guitar, the Les Paul Standard, a solid-body electric, sells for about $US 2,300. Gibson also makes guitars under such brands as Epiphone, Kramer, Valley arts, Tobias, Steinberger, and Kalamazoo.
Orville Gibson (born 1856, Chateaugay, New York) started making mandolins in Kalamazoo, Michigan USA. The mandolins were distinctive in that they featured a carved, arched solid wood top and back and bent wood sides. Prior to this mandolins had a flat solid wood top and a bowl-like back (similar to a lute) made of multiple strips of wood. These bowl-back mandolins were very fragile and unstable. Disdainful of the shape, Orville Gibson characterized them as
potato bugs. Gibson's innovation made a better-sounding mandolin that was immensely easier to manufacture. Orville Gibson's mandolin design, with its single-pieced carved sides and a single-pieced neck, was patented in 1898.
In 1902, the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co, Ltd. was founded to market the instruments.
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Handmade Truss Rod Covers!!
This auction is for one handmade truss rod cover with Humming Bird Inlay!! Cover is made from handcut Ebony, and inlay is Red and Green Abalone, Chrysocola, and Paua Shell. Hole spacing is 2 1/16 center to center. Cover will fit standard 2 hole truss rod covers on both Acoustic and Electric Gibson Guitars, and some other Brands. Cover is made to a template to ensure a proper fit, but please double check, and measure your cover before buying.
Please note, that these are made one at a time, by myself, the old fashion way. Not just an inexpensive, tacky, cheap overlay decal adhered to wood. It is real 1-2mm thick shell and will show different figure and color in different lighting and angles. The appearance of the shell is MUCH nicer in person!! It is hand cut, and hand routed, it is then set in the wood, glued in, sanded flush, polished and engraved, and a coat of gloss sprayed over it to bring out the beautiful figure in both the wood and pearl shell! Please take care when mounting the cover to your guitar as to not over tighten the screws, potentially cracking the wood on the cover! As there are several different screw sizes used to attach truss rod covers to various guitars, mounting screws are NOT included. Please retain your original screws. All covers are made from excellent quality wood, and various colors and figures of pearl shell and stone.
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