Gibson Les Paul Junior Special w/B-Bender - Natural Finish
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The B-Bender has been an essential part of the Nashville sound ever since legendary guitarist Clarence White and drummer friend Gene Parsons installed their wild new invention, a B-string bender operated by pulling down on the strap button, in Whites old guitar back in 1965. The B-Bender gave guitarists the ability to imitate pedal-steel bends mid-flow on a standard guitar, and broadened the country vocabulary enormously. In the early 80s Joe Glaser developed a new style B-Bender that was only installed at his personal shop of the stars in Nashville. Now Gibson and Joe Glaser combine forces to bring the Music City Jr. with B-Bender a new look, voice, and feel to the world of faux pedal-steel bending, in a guitar fully equipped to pull off these impressive tricks, while loaded for fat, driving Gibson P-90 tonealong with coil-tap switching to access brighter single-coil tones. The Music City Jr. with B-Bender is constructed in the full Gibson tradition, with a 24 scale length, a glued-in neck, a 12 fingerboard radius, and a 1 11/16 neck width at the nut, but it incorporates crucial elements from traditional B-Bender guitars such as a light ash body, a maple neck and fingerboard, and through-body stringing courtesy of a converted Gibson Nighthawk bridge. The result blends elements of classic twang tone with Gibsons legendary thick, rich voice. To top it off, its superb to play and adaptable to a wide range of musical styles.
Legendary for its gutsy lows, punchy midrange, and silky highs, in addition to its comfortably light weight, ash has been acclaimed as a tone wood for more than six decades. The Music City Jr. with B-Bender begins with a body of solid Grade-A ash, which is crafted in the shape of the single-cutaway Les Paul Jr. and Special, and minimally routed to accept the lightweight bender mechanism and through-body bridge. The guitar is in Antique Natural vintage gloss, to beautifully show of the distinctive grain of this wood. A distinctive tortoiseshell patterned pick guard beautifully tops off the visuals. A solid maple neck is glued in in traditional Gibson style, carved to a fast, slim 60s profile that measures .800 deep at the 1st fret and .875 at the 12th, and topped with a Grade-A fingerboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and black dot position markers. The secret weapon in the package is a lightweight B-Bender mechanism hidden within the back of the guitars body: put downward pressure on the guitar so the strap pulls the neck-end strap button upward, and an internal lever-and-gear system bends your B string anywhere from a half tone to a full tone sharp, as determined by the player. With a few simple changes it can be a G-Bender, and a set of high-quality Grover tuners make tune-ups a breeze.
While the stirring, energetic B-Bender sound has long been a classic element of hot licks country playing, youve never heard it with a tone as thick and meaty as the Music City Jr. with B-Bender delivers. Two of Gibsons fat, growling P-90s yield a sound beloved by guitarists since these iconic pickups first hit the scene in the pre-rocknroll days, but this guitar holds further surprises: lift the push-pull switch on either pickups volume knob to access a coil tap that bleeds off a portion of the P-90s coil windings, accessing a brighter, snappier tone more reminiscent of thinner single-coil styles. Between this switching, the independent volume and master tone controls, and Gibsons classic three-way pickup switch, the Music City Jr. with B-Bender is packed with a tonal versatility that belies its outward simplicity, primed for blues, rock, jazz, oryepcountry. Check it out now at your authorized Gibson Dealer, and bring a new breed of twang to your arsenal.
Features
- Solid grade-A Ash body with high-gloss nitrocellulose finish
- Solid Maple neck with slim '60s profile
- Maple fingerboard with acrylic dot inlays
- Pair of split-coil P-90 pickups in the neck and bridge positions
- Built-in lightweight B-Bender system with adjustable bridge
- Grover kidney tuners with 14:01 tuning ration
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
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| Les Paul Junior Special w/B-Bender - Natural Finish | 359843 |
