(Item#308) 1961 Gibson Sunburst Byrdland w/ PAF Pickups

$18,000.00

(Item#308)(consignment) 1961 Gibson Sunburst Byrdland w/ PAF pickups, beautiful guitar with a great sunburst finish and stunning solid figured maple back, neck and body rim. These guitar has a 1 5/8” nut width and 23.5” scale length. The sticker inside the F-Hole is missing but you can see the outline from it, the Gibson FON number stamped inside the treble side F-Hole is R6537 and serial number is 9163. An “R” would designate 1960 and the serial number is 1961. Guitar was most likely made in late ‘60 when Gibson changed to the sharp Florentine cutaway and then sold as a 1961 model. Guitar has original undisturbed PAF pickups & pots. Bridge pickup has a PAF sticker and is standard pole piece spacing, neck pickup is the narrow spacing and never had any kind of sticker. It’s fairly common for these neck PAF’s to not have any sticker. Pickups read: bridge - 7.52K, neck - 7.39K. Guitar has been re-fretted and it has a non-original aftermarket bridge assembly, also a long finish crack running on either side of output jack,but not thru the solid maple rim. Guitar has a good amount of finish checking all over. No other mods or repairs and comes with a brown Lifton or Stone case w/ pink lining.

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(Item#308)(consignment) 1961 Gibson Sunburst Byrdland w/ PAF pickups, beautiful guitar with a great sunburst finish and stunning solid figured maple back, neck and body rim. These guitar has a 1 5/8” nut width and 23.5” scale length. The sticker inside the F-Hole is missing but you can see the outline from it, the Gibson FON number stamped inside the treble side F-Hole is R6537 and serial number is 9163. An “R” would designate 1960 and the serial number is 1961. Guitar was most likely made in late ‘60 when Gibson changed to the sharp Florentine cutaway and then sold as a 1961 model. Guitar has original undisturbed PAF pickups & pots. Bridge pickup has a PAF sticker and is standard pole piece spacing, neck pickup is the narrow spacing and never had any kind of sticker. It’s fairly common for these neck PAF’s to not have any sticker. Pickups read: bridge - 7.52K, neck - 7.39K. Guitar has been re-fretted and it has a non-original aftermarket bridge assembly, also a long finish crack running on either side of output jack,but not thru the solid maple rim. Guitar has a good amount of finish checking all over. No other mods or repairs and comes with a brown Lifton or Stone case w/ pink lining.

No Sales Tax on Walk-In or Shipped items

Check or Bank Wire ONLY

Inquire About This Item or Call 603-868-9805