Gibson Barney Kessel
Artist Model Gibson
Designed for the musician who requires beauty and ultimate performance. A
special magnetic field in the bridge pickup emphasizes the treble frequencies
and produces unusual tones throughout the entire range.
Features:
- Carved spruce top
- Carved maple back
- Slim, fast, low-action neck joins body at
15th fret
- Five-piece curly maple neck
- Adjustable truss rod
- Rosewood fingerboard with 'bow-tie' pearl
inlays
- Gold-plated adjustable Tune-O-Matic bridge
- Twin humbucking pickups
- Seperate tone and volume control
- Three-postion toggle switch
- Gold-plated metal parts
- 17" wide, 21" long, 3" deep: 25 1/2" scale,
20 frets
- BK-C Custom Model - Cherry Sunburst finish
- BK-R Regular Model - Cherry Sunburst finish,
mahogany neck with pearl inlaid peghead, rosewood fingerboard with rectangular
pearl inlays, rosewood bridge, chrome-plated metal parts
"It's a rare guitar because it's left-handed,"
he claims about the Kessel. "They stopped making them around 1965, so this comes
from 1960-1965. I don't know what else is there. I haven't seen them for years."
— Tony Iommi (from Guitar World Magazine, March, 1984) |
