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Gibson Custom Shop J-45 Koa Carpathian Spruce - Honeyburst Guitar #5086

Gibson Custom Shop J-45 Koa Carpathian Spruce - Honeyburst Guitar #5086

Regular price $4,249.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $4,249.00 USD
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For sale is a brand new Gibson Custom Shop J-45 Koa with a Carpathian Spruce top in a lovely Honeyburst finish. Just a beautiful sounding guitar, and what a clean look with the honeyburst top and the figured koa back and sides. Comes with Case Candy, and OHSC. Danville Music is an Authorized Gibson Dealer, you can buy with confidence and the instrument comes with the full Gibson lifetime WarrantyWe inspect and professionally set up every instrument we sell so you can buy with confidence, helping you fall in love with your new instrument. Feel free to message us with any questions.

Turning the traditional J-45 formula on its head, the Gibson Acoustic J-45 Koa/Carpathian Spruce beams with an exotic arrangement of prestigious timbers. This limited-edition acoustic-electric’s Carpathian spruce top — a particularly sought-after strand of European spruce — lays a crisp and responsive groundwork, coupled with traditional scalloped X-bracing to deliver exceptional headroom and a vast dynamic range. Carpathian spruce’s powerful projection and natural stiffness often garner comparisons with Gibson’s golden-age top wood of choice, Adirondack spruce. However, this J-45’s brilliantly figured AA koa back and sides are what truly separate this instrument from a standard Gibson slope-shouldered dread, tempering the J-45’s thump with a brighter and more balanced character. A speedy SlimTaper mahogany neck provides smooth navigation over this J-45’s final tonewood tweak — a stunning striped ebony fingerboard. You also get road-proven LR Baggs VTC electronics and top-shelf Grover tuners. Simply put, you’ve never heard (or seen!) a Gibson quite like the Gibson Acoustic Koa/Carpathian Spruce.


  • String Type:Steel
  • Number of Strings:6
  • Body Shape:Slope Shoulder
  • Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
  • Color:Honey Burst
  • Finish:Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  • Top Wood:Carpathian Spruce
  • Back & Sides Wood:Koa
  • Body Bracing:Traditional hand-scalloped X-Bracing
  • Binding:Single-ply Top and Back
  • Neck Wood:Mahogany, Slime Taper
  • Radius:12"
  • Fingerboard Material:Striped Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay:Mother of Pearl Dot
  • Number of Frets:20
  • Scale Length:24.75"
  • Tuning Machines:Grover Rotomatic
  • Bridge:Traditional belly-up, Striped Ebony
  • Nut/Saddle Material:Black
  • Nut Width:1.72"
  • Electronics:LR Baggs VTC preamp
  • Strings:Phosphor Bronze Light 12-53
  • Case Included:Hard Case
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