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Up for sale, a 1966 Gibson Hummingbird in collector-grade condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case, hangtag, and bill of sale. 100% original save for a bone nut, the Hummingbird is an upscale model featuring a square-shoulder design, with appointments including gold-plated hardware and split-parallelogram inlay.
Tonewoods include a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a one-piece mahogany neck, and bound rosewood fretboard. This Hummingbird is warm and round-sounding, with plenty of dreadnought muscle and projection. The lows are broad and smooth, offering the growl inherent in mahogany as a tonewood, and the plain strings yield treble chime and sparkle with a dry percussive chop, making this Hummingbird a rewarding strummer with a balanced, true voice ideal for recording. Weighing 4lbs 8oz, this Hummingbird has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 12-53 bronze strings, low action, and accurate intonation.
Neck Specs:
-Wood: Mahogany
-Shape: Medium C, full shoulders, measuring .860” 1st fret, .980” 9th fret
-Fretboard: Rosewood, split parallelogram inlay, light finger wear behind frets 1-5
-Frets: Medium jumbo, light wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-4
-Scale Length: 25 1/2”
-Nut: 1 9/16”, bone (upgraded)
-Tuners: Kluson Deluxe double-line, gold-plated
-Serialization: 853-prefix six-digit serial dates to 1966
Body Specs:
-Wood: Spruce, Mahogany
-Bracing: X
-Hardware: Rosewood bridge, adjustable saddle
-Plastics: Red tortoise pickguard
-Label: Orange oval, Kalamazoo
-Marquetry: Multi-ply binding
Crack-free and well-kept, the gloss nitro lacquer finish exhibits broad checking, particularly on top, and cosmetic wear is limited to a handful of faint scratches on the back (lower bout), well short of “buckle rash," and just a few faint marks on the body as a whole consistent with decades of very careful usage. The smooth nitro gloss on the neck profile also exhibits horizontal checking, with a few shallow dings central to the carve behind frets 2-5 that are not distracting to the palm while fretting.
The original black tolex hardshell case is included, along with the hangtag and original bill of sale (dated to ‘67).
Tonewoods include a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a one-piece mahogany neck, and bound rosewood fretboard. This Hummingbird is warm and round-sounding, with plenty of dreadnought muscle and projection. The lows are broad and smooth, offering the growl inherent in mahogany as a tonewood, and the plain strings yield treble chime and sparkle with a dry percussive chop, making this Hummingbird a rewarding strummer with a balanced, true voice ideal for recording. Weighing 4lbs 8oz, this Hummingbird has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 12-53 bronze strings, low action, and accurate intonation.
Neck Specs:
-Wood: Mahogany
-Shape: Medium C, full shoulders, measuring .860” 1st fret, .980” 9th fret
-Fretboard: Rosewood, split parallelogram inlay, light finger wear behind frets 1-5
-Frets: Medium jumbo, light wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-4
-Scale Length: 25 1/2”
-Nut: 1 9/16”, bone (upgraded)
-Tuners: Kluson Deluxe double-line, gold-plated
-Serialization: 853-prefix six-digit serial dates to 1966
Body Specs:
-Wood: Spruce, Mahogany
-Bracing: X
-Hardware: Rosewood bridge, adjustable saddle
-Plastics: Red tortoise pickguard
-Label: Orange oval, Kalamazoo
-Marquetry: Multi-ply binding
Crack-free and well-kept, the gloss nitro lacquer finish exhibits broad checking, particularly on top, and cosmetic wear is limited to a handful of faint scratches on the back (lower bout), well short of “buckle rash," and just a few faint marks on the body as a whole consistent with decades of very careful usage. The smooth nitro gloss on the neck profile also exhibits horizontal checking, with a few shallow dings central to the carve behind frets 2-5 that are not distracting to the palm while fretting.
The original black tolex hardshell case is included, along with the hangtag and original bill of sale (dated to ‘67).
