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1981 Gibson Flying V Heritage 'Birds-Eye' Korina.
One of the very earliest Heritage Korina Flying V's, this amazing guitar weighs just 6.70 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. 'Birds-Eye' Korina body and three-piece 'Birds-Eye' Korina neck with a wonderful medium-to-thick profile. Rosewood fretboard with 22 original jumbo frets and pearl dot position markers. Headstock with silver plastic "Gibson" logo. Individual Gibson (Kluson) Deluxe tuners with single-ring Keystone plastic buttons. Serial number "A 054" stamped in black on back of headstock. Two Tim Shaw reissue PAF Humbuckers with outputs of 7.04k and 6.97k, each engraved on the underside "Pat No. 2,737,842". The neck pickup stamped in black "153 882" and the bridge pickup also stamped in black "154 882". Five-layer white/black/white/black/white plastic pickguard with eight screws. Three controls (two volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch. Inside the control cavity is stamped "820" and also "Betty" in pencil. The bridge pickup cavity has a large 'A' and a smaller '3' stamped in red. Black plastic bell-shape "Bell" shaped knobs. Gibson 'ABR-1' non-retainer Tune-O-Matic bridge with metal saddles, stamped on the underside "Gibson Pat No. 2,740,313", modernistic "V" shaped metal tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated. This thirty-year old 'under-the-bed' guitar is in mint (9.50) condition and is complete with all of the original case-candy including, the original Gibson warranty with Model number "Flying V Ant. Nat." and matching serial number "A 054" written in black ink; original thirty-six page owners manual, original case-key in manilla envelope and two other original hang tags. Housed in the original Gibson brown four-latch 'V' shaped hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.25).
This is the ONLY 'Birds-Eye' Korina Flying V Heritage that we have ever seen - and certainly the lightest, prettiest and earliest Flying V you will ever see...
The original Korina Flying V, introduced in 1958,was produced in very small numbers (1958: 81 guitars; 1959: 17 guitars). Legend has it that there were also a few more built in 1962-63 which were assembled from leftover parts.
The second version flying V's 1967-1970 were made with mahogany bodies - again in very limited numbers with a total production run of just 175 guitars. There were then three other versions made between 1971 and 1979 - again all with mahogany bodies. The fist time that the Korina bodies appeared again was in 1981 - and they were made in the old Kalamazoo factory in very limited numbers - again legend has it that they produced only 100 guitars in the first year of 1981 and similar numbers per year through 1984.