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Cooler Than the Other Side of the Pillow


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 '70s 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 '70s Tribute pickups. These hellacious humbuckers have a fat, rich sound with oodles of sustain, and though they excel for heavy, aggressive genres of music, they also possess a delightful capacity for subtlety and enough versatility to handle anything from classic rock to funk to country to jazz.

That’s the '70s 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 murdered-out swagger belies the '70s Explorer’s incredible versatility and spectacular tone. Even if it had plain Jane looks, the '70s Explorer would still be an amazing instrument with tone in its bones. 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 '70s Explorer, because we know it will bring you endless inspiration (and give you 500 cool points!).

Specifications:

Brand Gibson
ModelOriginal Collection '70s Explorer
Finish ColorClassic White
Finish TypeGloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Weight8.26 lbs.
Body WoodMahogany
Neck WoodMahogany
Neck ShapeSlim Taper
Neck Dimensions.810 1st - .910 12th
FingerboardBound Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius12"
Fingerboard InlaysAcrylic Dots
Width at Nut1.694"
Nut MaterialGraph Tech
Scale Length24.75"
Frets22 Medium Jumbo
Pickups2 '70s Tribute Humbuckers
Controls2 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-way Toggleswitch; Hand-wired with Orange Drop Capacitors
HardwareChrome
BridgeAluminum Nashville Tune-o-Matic
TailpieceAluminum Stopbar
TunersGrover Mini Rotomatics
Pickguard3-Ply White
CaseGibson Brown Hardshell

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