April 2002 Issue - Gibson Custom Shop Original Gold-Sparkle Flying V
By Larry Meiners
Gibson's Custom, Art and Historic Division recently released the Lenny Kravitz Signature Flying V Limited Edition guitar. This awesome Flying V created with Lenny's help features a gold mirror pickguard, gold-plated hardware and is limited to 125 guitars.
Twelve years earlier Gibson made a "Custom Shop Original" Flying V that share some of the unique features of the Kravitz guitar. This late 1980s gold-sparkle Flying V features a gold mirror pickguard and truss rod cover, gold-plated hardware, gold-sparkle dot inlays and is limited to 1 guitar.
Read about all the Flying V models built from 1958-2001 in the book titled, Flying V - The Illustrated History, $19.95 retail price, available at JK Lutherie, 1-800-344-8880, or www.jklutherie.com, or at Amazon at www.amazon.com.
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