Description
2011 Gibson Firebird Non-Reverse III 2011 with 3 P-90s
Pelham Blue
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Tony Elder / Steve Jackson
Black Dot Music
Est 1985
sold
As used by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters.
It’s in excellent condition with a few minor impressions without paint loss and a little checking on the rear of peg.
Gibson USA introduces the Firebird Studio Non-Reverse, a guitar with all the style and flair of the original 1965-69 non-reverse-bodied Firebird III, enhanced with added sonic versatility to bolster its vintage-certified tones. It comes crafted from Grade-A tonewoods, loaded with three of Gibson’s new Tapped P-90 pickups (for both original fat P-90 tones and brighter, snappier “narrow single-coil” tones), and upgraded with stunning new five-way pickup switching, push-pull tap and phase switching, and a Tune-o-matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece.
The guitar’s body is crafted from solid Grade-A mahogany, and dressed in an authentic high-gloss nitrocellulose finish in Vintage Sunburst. Its quarter-sawn, Grade-A mahogany neck is carved to an ultra thin (.800-.850) profile, glued in, and topped with 22 medium-jumbo frets and a 12″ radius for smooth, choke-free bending. Beyond the PLEK-cut Corian nut, it carries a traditional “hawk’s head” six-in-line headstock with high-quality Mini Grover kidney button tuners, while down at the body end a Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece.
A trio of Gibson USA’s new Tapped P-90 pickups provides fat snarl, crunch, and bite that vintage P-90s are known for, with the option of a the brighter, twangier sound of a thinner single-coil pickup accessed via the push-pull switch on each pickup’s independent volume control. They don’t feature “split coil” switching, as used on humbucking pickups. The switch on each of these single-coil Tap P-90 pickups accesses a genuine tap wired into the coil windings of each unit, grounding off part of its output to produce a brighter, more focused tone when the switch is pulled. Combine this with the push-pull switch on the master tone pot, which puts the middle pickup out of phase when combined with either the bridge or neck unit, and five-way switching to access bridge/bridge+middle/middle/neck+middle/neck pickup selections (either tapped or full), the Firebird Studio offers an unprecedented tonal range.
