There’a a good amount of confusion with how Gibson calls this a 70s Flying V. It’s actually like a ‘67 style V that has a stop tail piece and had the pick up covers taken off or maybe had the pickups replaced with super distortions. The burst bucker pickups are made hotter and naturally have more gain on them, so they take a thick distortion tone very well. The shape isn’t a 70s shape, as in a V that was made in the 70s with the stubby headstock and volute. Although the one “manufactured in the 70s” feature that this guitar has is the way the neck is slightly raised from the body where it joins.
I really like the binding on the neck, it gives this neck such a nice and smooth, finished feel. There are some little imperfections, like light tooling marks on the binding/fretboard and an odd black mark on the back. I have seen another review that had this as well, not really sure what that’s from. Some people like to freak out and pick apart Gibsons for these little things, but I’m not bothered by that little stuff. The natural mahogany looks great and the weight feels perfect. It’s around 7 ish lbs and feels great to play. Great action and tuning stability and the hard shell case rules. I do think the $2500 new price tag on these is a little crazy, but I got an amazing deal on this at GC, it had a great clearance price, so much so that it was barely more than the Kirk Hammett Epiphone V, so it was a no brainer at that point. Very stoked to finally get one of these, I always dreamt of it as a kid.
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