1953 GIBSON Century (V-2) – Blue / 6-string Lapsteel guitar

1953 GIBSON Century (V-2) – Blue / 6-string Lapsteel guitar

1953 GIBSON Century (V-2) – Blue / 6-string  Lapsteel guitar

Super clean and beautiful 1953 Gibson Century V2 lapsteel guitar in excellent condition for its age and all original except for rebuttoned tuners because of shrinking. The Century V2 was built 1950 till 1955. This Century has the large speed-knobs as found on early ´52/´53 Les Pauls, the original electronic is untouched with original solderjoints and works fine. The handrest-cover is crack-free and everything works fine and sounds great! Comes in its orig. brown Geib case w/pink lining.

Techn.details:

• Maple body/-neck – no binding,
• Original blue high-gloss nitro finish,
• Ckear plastic fingerboard with 29 frets,
• One orig. Gibson AlNiCo single coil pickup,
• Fixed aluminum tailpiece,
• Headstock w/gold "Gibson" block-logo,
• 3x "high" golden speed knobs,
• 6x orig. Kluson (no-line) tuners,
• Comes in its orig. brown Geib case w/pink lining.