Gibson’s Square-shouldered Masterpiece — Now with Premium Swagger!
Fresh from the accomplished luthiers at Gibson Acoustic, the Hummingbird Custom acoustic-electric guitar pairs the focused sound of a square-shouldered dreadnought with Les Paul-style ornamentation and a deluxe nitro finish. Striking visual twists supercharge the Hummingbird’s classic appeal, including a Les Paul-style headstock, a double-bound body, and captivating mother-of-pearl inlays. What’s more, the Hummingbird Custom is flush with choice cuts of spruce, mahogany, and ebony, each carefully carved for immaculate tones and exceptional comfort, even during long sessions. When it’s time to perform, an integrated LR Baggs VTC electronics system provides world-class amplification for studios and stages. Secure your dream Gibson acoustic guitar with the Hummingbird Custom from Sweetwater!
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Spruce and mahogany fuel sophisticated tones
Each Hummingbird Custom is crafted in the USA by passionate artisans, and the Hummingbird Custom makes that tradition known with a vibrant tonewood combination of mahogany and spruce optimized by hand-scalloped X-bracing within. The Hummingbird Custom’s solid spruce top fuels sparkling note articulation and dynamic sharpness, making leaps from rhythm strums to delicate fingerpicking seamless and smooth. Mahogany back and sides support spruce’s personality with excellent warmth, focus, and sustain that quickly adapts to any technique or musical style. Also, premium hardware, including an ebony saddle, a bone nut, and Grover tuners, ensures that your guitar strings and tonewoods always resonate with strength and clarity, with tuning breaks few and far in between.
Smooth playability
With its Rounded profile, The Hummingbird Custom’s mahogany neck has a sturdy and fluid feel that’s downright classic. You’ll find barre chords, flatpicked solos, bends, hammer-ons, and more are easily achieved! Moreover, the neck features a 20-fret ebony fingerboard topped with stunning MOP block inlays and a reliable 24.75-inch scale for a look and feel that’s divine.
LR Baggs electronics
LR Baggs VTC electronics capture the kind of amplified acoustic tone you’d expect from a world-class audio engineer working overtime. At the core of the VTC system is an LR Baggs Element pickup with tone and volume controls, a unique build that tracks the guitar top’s vibrations instead of string attack. VTC technology saturates amplified tone with extra harmonic content and analog warmth that’s natural sounding yet noticeably better than a standard acoustic pickup. Additional dynamic automatic EQ handles problematic frequencies as they arise with touch-sensitive compression that works with your playing for a more authentic amplified tone that’s tough to beat.
Gibson Acoustic Hummingbird Custom Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- Gibson’s square-shouldered dreadnought gets a custom nitro finish and premium Les Paul-style appointments
- Sitka spruce top delivers rich tone with a bright, articulate sound
- Mahogany back and sides support spruce with a well-rounded foundation and strong dynamic potential
- Mahogany neck with a comfortable Rounded profile
- Bound 24.75-inch scale-length ebony fingerboard with custom MOP block inlays
- Hand-scalloped X-bracing balances tone and response
- Premium hardware includes a bone nut, ebony bridge, and Grover tuners to enhance tone and keep strings in tune
- Deluxe bound Les Paul-style peghead with custom MOP inlay
- Premium multi-ply binding throughout
- LR Baggs VTC under-saddle pickup with volume and tone controls
