Gibson Custom Shop 1965 Non-Reverse Firebird V 12-String Reissue £5,299
There are certain guitars we tell ourselves we definitely must get one day, but somehow it never quite happens. At the top of that list for many sits the electric 12-string. When would we use it? Wouldn’t the money be better spent on an amp upgrade, a topline acoustic, or perhaps the latest modelling system?
While obvious 12-string contenders would be one of Rickenbacker’s Beatles, Byrds or Petty-inspired models, and Fender’s hockey stick headstock Electric XII, we reckon if anything could coax the moths from your wallet it’s this magnificent beast from Gibson. Based on Kalamazoo’s unbelievably cool non-reverse Firebird from 1965 it comes in glorious Aqua Mist, one of the Oldsmobile motor company’s flagship colours.
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