Description
GIBSON Elvis Dove Ebony
The Gibson Elvis Dove is based on a customized 1969 Gibson Dove that was gifted to the King of Rock and Roll by his father, Vernon Presley. Elvis played this iconic instrument in concert regularly from 1971 until 1975, including during the 1973 satellite-televised Aloha From Hawaii concert. In 1975, Elvis gifted it in mid-performance to an astonished audience member at a concert in Asheville, North Carolina.
The Gibson Elvis Dove features a solid Sitka spruce top, solid maple back and sides, and a mahogany neck capped with a rosewood fretboard. It also comes equipped with modern LR Baggs VTC electronics with an under-saddle piezo pickup and soundhole-mounted volume and tone controls, making it stage-ready, right out of the included hardshell case.
Specifications
Body
- Body Shape - Dove
- Body Material - Maple
- Top - Sitka Spruce
- Back - Maple
- Side - Maple
- Bracing - Traditional Hand Scalloped X-bracing
- Binding - 5-ply Top, 3-ply Back, Single ply Fingerboard
- Finish -Gloss Nitrocellulose
Neck
- Material - Mahogany
- Profile - Round
- Scale Length - 25.5" / 647.7mm
- Fingerboard Material - Indian Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius -12"
- Number Of Frets - 20
- Frets -Standard
- Nut Material - Bone
- Nut Width - 1.73" / 43.815mm
- Inlays - Mother of Pearl Parallelograms
- Joint - Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body Joint; Hot Hide Glue
- Headstock inlay -Mother of Pearl Gibson Logo and Crown
Hardware
- Finish - Gold
- Tuner Plating - Gold
- Bridge - Rosewood Dove with Mother of Pearl Dove Inlays
- Saddle Material - Bone
- Tuning Machines - Grover Keystone
- Pickguard - Vintage Dove Shape, Plain Black with White Bevel
- TrussRod - Adjustable
- Truss Rod Cover - Black, Vertical "ELVIS"
- Bridge Pins - Tusq
- Strap Buttons - Gold
Electronics
- Under Saddle Pickup - LR Baggs VTC
- Controls - Soundhole Mounted Volume and Tone
- Output Jack - 1/4" Endpin Jack
- Preamp -LR Baggs VTC
Miscellaneous
- Strings Gauge - 012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053
- Case -Gibson Hardshell
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