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Gibson
Serial Number: #206800213
This Explorer is in fantastic shape! The frets show virtually no wear, and the finish shows very light signs of normal use (mostly just some pick and string wear on the pickups). There's also one noticeable ding on the top edge, but that's the only real cosmetic imperfection to report. All in all, it's quite clean, and it comes with its original hardshell case, too!
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Gibson
7.68 lbs.
.840 1st - .920 12th
Natural
This Explorer is in fantastic shape! The frets show virtually no wear, and the finish shows very light signs of normal use (mostly just some pick and string wear on the pickups). There's also one noticeable ding on the top edge, but that's the only real cosmetic imperfection to report. All in all, it's quite clean, and it comes with its original hardshell case, too!
Genius is rarely understood in its own time, so maybe that’s why it took guitar players twenty years to catch on to how cool Gibson Explorers are. Since Explorers are considered so iconic now, it’s hard to believe that they were a total flop when Gibson introduced them in 1958, but initial demand was so low that the first production run only consisted of thirty-eight guitars! Now that we guitar players have collectively figured out that playing an Explorer makes you look ten to twenty percent cooler than you actually are, the value of the original examples has skyrocketed, and their market value hovers around a quarter-million dollars.
Thankfully, you don’t need to mortgage your house to get your hands on one of these awesome American-made Gibson Explorers from the Original Collection! Sixty years after the Explorer’s infamously cold initial introduction, Gibson has knocked it out of the park by building some of the finest pointy guitars of all time for their Original Collection. These awesome axes rank above Christopher Columbus on any reputable list of the greatest explorers of all time, so let’s take a closer look and see why they always make Wildwood employees stop in their tracks whenever they see or hear one!
The magic of the modern Explorer begins with the quality mahogany Gibson uses to make the bodies and necks. They select each cut of wood with the utmost care, and this ultimately leads to guitars of exceptional resonance and beauty. To electrify the sweet sounds these tonewoods create, Gibson called upon the services of their Burstbucker pickups. These hellacious humbuckers are based on the legendary PAF pickups of yore, and they put a delightful modern spin on the classic Gibson sound. The Burstbucker 2 in the neck position is slightly underwound, and this gives it a sweet, singing top-end, woody midrange response, and deep-yet-articulate lows. By contrast, the Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position is overwound, so it has punchy, snarling midrange to go with biting highs and tight, muscular lows. You would be hard-pressed to find a genre or situation in which these two sounds would not impress everyone with working eardrums!
That’s the Explorer in a nutshell: sure, it looks flashy enough to make anyone you’re interested in romantically swoon and become weak in the knees after you bust out that two-handed tapping lick you’ve been working on (at least, that’s how it always plays out in my daydreams!), but all that space-age swagger belies the Explorer’s incredible versatility and spectacular tone. Even if it had plain-Jane looks, the Explorer would still be an amazing instrument with a sound that works for everything from rock to metal to country to punk. The fact that it’s cooler than Miles Davis eating ice cream in an igloo is just a bonus! We invite you to experience the joy of pointy guitars by playing an Original Collection Explorer, because we know it will bring you endless inspiration (and give you 500 cool points!).
Gibson
2020 Original Collection Explorer
Natural
7.68 lbs.
Mahogany
.840 1st - .920 12th
Mahogany
Slim Taper
Rosewood
12"
Acrylic Dot
22 Medium Jumbo
Graph Tech
1 11/16"
Burstbucker 2 and 3
2 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-Way
Aluminum Stopbar
Chrome
Grover Mini Rotomatics
Aluminum Nashville Tune-o-Matic
White
Original Hardshell Case
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This Explorer is in fantastic shape! The frets show virtually no wear, and the finish shows very light signs of normal use (mostly just some pick and string wear on the pickups). There's also one noticeable ding on the top edge, but that's the only real cosmetic imperfection to report. All in all, it's quite clean, and it comes with its original hardshell case, too!
Genius is rarely understood in its own time, so maybe that’s why it took guitar players twenty years to catch on to how cool Gibson Explorers are. Since Explorers are considered so iconic now, it’s hard to believe that they were a total flop when Gibson introduced them in 1958, but initial demand was so low that the first production run only consisted of thirty-eight guitars! Now that we guitar players have collectively figured out that playing an Explorer makes you look ten to twenty percent cooler than you actually are, the value of the original examples has skyrocketed, and their market value hovers around a quarter-million dollars.
Thankfully, you don’t need to mortgage your house to get your hands on one of these awesome American-made Gibson Explorers from the Original Collection! Sixty years after the Explorer’s infamously cold initial introduction, Gibson has knocked it out of the park by building some of the finest pointy guitars of all time for their Original Collection. These awesome axes rank above Christopher Columbus on any reputable list of the greatest explorers of all time, so let’s take a closer look and see why they always make Wildwood employees stop in their tracks whenever they see or hear one!
The magic of the modern Explorer begins with the quality mahogany Gibson uses to make the bodies and necks. They select each cut of wood with the utmost care, and this ultimately leads to guitars of exceptional resonance and beauty. To electrify the sweet sounds these tonewoods create, Gibson called upon the services of their Burstbucker pickups. These hellacious humbuckers are based on the legendary PAF pickups of yore, and they put a delightful modern spin on the classic Gibson sound. The Burstbucker 2 in the neck position is slightly underwound, and this gives it a sweet, singing top-end, woody midrange response, and deep-yet-articulate lows. By contrast, the Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position is overwound, so it has punchy, snarling midrange to go with biting highs and tight, muscular lows. You would be hard-pressed to find a genre or situation in which these two sounds would not impress everyone with working eardrums!
That’s the Explorer in a nutshell: sure, it looks flashy enough to make anyone you’re interested in romantically swoon and become weak in the knees after you bust out that two-handed tapping lick you’ve been working on (at least, that’s how it always plays out in my daydreams!), but all that space-age swagger belies the Explorer’s incredible versatility and spectacular tone. Even if it had plain-Jane looks, the Explorer would still be an amazing instrument with a sound that works for everything from rock to metal to country to punk. The fact that it’s cooler than Miles Davis eating ice cream in an igloo is just a bonus! We invite you to experience the joy of pointy guitars by playing an Original Collection Explorer, because we know it will bring you endless inspiration (and give you 500 cool points!).
206800213
Gibson
2020 Original Collection Explorer
Natural
7.68 lbs.
Mahogany
.840 1st - .920 12th
Mahogany
Slim Taper
Rosewood
12"
Acrylic Dot
22 Medium Jumbo
Graph Tech
1 11/16"
Burstbucker 2 and 3
2 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-Way
Aluminum Stopbar
Chrome
Grover Mini Rotomatics
Aluminum Nashville Tune-o-Matic
White
Original Hardshell Case
