Slip on those pleather leggings and that guyliner and bust out the hairspray, this axe is begging for some hair metal riffs! The blacked out finish, the split diamond inlays, the Steinberger kickstand(?)!!!
Now, your first question may be, "why did they call it the V90?" Great question. Well, it was released in 1988, so it can't be referring to 1990, unless it was just in anticipation of the next decade, but that would be kinda silly. And it clearly has a humbucker and a single coil pickup in it, so it's not like it's a Flying V with P90's in it. Well, did you happen to notice the body on this V looks a little smaller than usual? Yep, this V is exactly 90% the size of your average Flying V. Gibson wanted to design a V that is just ever so slightly less cumbersome than its predecessors so the shredders of the time could move around on stage more easily!
This V body is constructed of mahogany, and weighs a very shredable 7.22lbs, so you can do all your scissor kicks and stage antics with minimum encumbrance! It has a matching mahogany C-profile neck with a thickness measuring 0.795" at the 1st fret and 0.870" at the 12th, topped with an ebony 12" radius fretboard and a nut width of 1.5/8".
Under the hood, Gibson went a little crazy with the electronics on this one (as if they didn't go a little crazy everywhere else on this guitar already). Breaking away from the classic dual humbucker wiring that you'd expect to see on a Flying V. In the bridge position you've got a Gibson HB-L Bill Lawrence-designed humbucker with a blistering 13.49k in output power, which you can split the coils of using the push/push pot. In the neck position, Gibson threw a stock single coil pickup with an output rating of 7.43k. A world of tone options at your fingertips!
This guitar is just so dang cool. Some lucky shredder really loved this baby back in the day. As you can see from the pictures, it has been gigged pretty hard. There are scuffs, dings, nicks, scratches, and even what looks like a burn mark on the upper horn. Probably standing too close to that stage right flash pot. You know, the 80's and their pyrotechnics.
Our in-house luthiers were having a blast working on this guitar. They did a full fret level and setup on it, as well as replacing the push/push pot and output jack, and now it plays probably better than the day it left the Gibson factory. Whoever gets this guitar next will be a very happy riffer.
Order this guitar today and we'll have it packed up in its original hardshell case and shipped to your door before you have time to learn the riff to "Round and Round". Feel free to give us a call with any questions you may have about it!