My first 'name' guitar, circa 1981, Gibson Sonex-180 Deluxe. It's a heap of rubbish really, but I can't bear to part with it. Broke the headstock off it about 2 years after I bought it, and my Dad glued it back together. Still plays OK.
 

 

 

 
 
I like the colour mate, it looks like a nice dark hue of 'chestnut' brown

That looks pretty cool to me! 

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I like the colour mate, it looks like a nice dark hue of 'chestnut' brown

It's not brown, dear it's...black..BLACK! BLACK! IT'S ALL BLACK!
 
I'm a FLY! Trapped in a bottle of shadows!

This one's not black.
It's a '76 S-1, the only Gibson I own, and the closest thing I have to a strat.
Solid Maple, and feels like it, every pound. I've never really gotten comfortable with the fat neck, but I love the Buck Rogers pick guard. it does produce an interesting range of sound.


A close up of those pups. The heart of the S-1

 

Wow, that looks wild!

Gawd I'm feeling old!
I consider myself a Gibson "guy".
What the hell is an S-1 or Sonnex whatchamacallit?
I guess my "expertise" ends circa 1968-69; after that everything just sort of went to hell....
(this is now a Gibson forum, right? maybe I should just keep my mouth shut?
But children, its no longer your daddy's Gibson.
Gibson, Inc. Kalamazoo, Mich. that is!)
Banned for life???????
 
T

Your daddy's Gibson!

T

Oh ya, that I understand.

Cool James. It has Velvet Brick humbuckers- if you didn't know...
Bill Lawrence designed them while working with Gibson and they are not like any other HBs'.
 
To pickup makers it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't become worth a lot of coins if not already.