When a big jumbo/super-jumbo body is just too big, the J-185 is exactly what the doctor ordered. As displayed at least year’s big NAMM trade show in Nashville – to universal acclaim – this beautifully scaled down body size is just so incredibly playable! In a limited edition run with premium Indian Rosewood back & sides, and finished in Gibson’s exclusive Rosewood Burst nitro, this is total guitar drooool!
LR Baggs
Fully hand built at Gibson’s acoustic facility in Bozeman, Montana, the Rosewood/Rosewood Burst J-185 is premium everything! From the stunning Rosewood back & sides to the LR Baggs Element VTC pickup system, it’s Gibson excellence, all the way:-
Hand-selected premium Sitka Spruce top
Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Edge-lacquered Rosewood fingerboard, (16” radius, 24¾” scale)
Mother-of-Pearl mini trapezoid inlays
Abalone rosette
Gold Grover mini Rotomatic tuners
Traditional pearl inlay headstock logo
Dark tortoise scratchplate
Tusq nut
Compensated Tusq saddle
Tusq bridge pins
Mother-of-Pearl bridge dot inlays
Factory Plek’d
The solid Mahogany neck features Gibson’s “Advanced Response” profile – a soft/rounded-V at the first fret, tapering to an approximate modern-C around the 9th. It feels so good in your hand that you’ll want to just keep playing and playing and playing…
Nitro
And of course there’s that gorgeous Rosewood Burst nitro finish. Like a slightly more vibrant Iced Tea Burst, this will bring delight through all the years to come.
Sparkling and immediate
The J-185 sounds just as sparkling and immediate, whether you’re playing it fully acoustically or plugged in, with beautiful, ringing jumbo tone, brought alive by Gibson’s famous string-to-string note definition. Strummed hard or finger-picked, this really is one of the very finest production instruments ever to have come out of Bozeman, Montana!
Free courier delivery
Complete with its original Gibson hard shell case and case candy, the guitar is in Near Mint condition. Other than its weekend on show in Nashville last year, it’s been almost untouched by human hands. Our FREE COURIER DELIVERY to any address in Australia will have your stunning Rosewood Burst J-185 at your door lickety-split! ($100 airfreight to New Zealand, and $175 to the US, Canada, UK and mainstream European countries)
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