Hot or Not - Gibson Eye Guitar

[Mark Wein]

9.3
Rating

Eye Guitar
Gibson has long been known for its pioneering guitar designs, and all have set their own standards in guitar innovation. Now, Gibson USA is proud to continue the tradition by adding to the legacy – introducing the new 2009 Limited Run Series Eye Guitar, available beginning April 1 in a strictly limited number of only 350 guitars. This stunning new design features an ultra-pointy, offset double-cutaway body dressed in a nitrocellulose lacquer Fired Engine Red finish that’s matched on the headstock. Powder-coated pickup covers echo the theme. The swooping, symmetrical pickguard is totally original and unique, while the jet-black ebony fingerboard — without position markers — adds a touch of elegance and simplicity. Like many traditional Gibson guitars, its solid mahogany body and glued-in mahogany neck help maximize resonance and sustain, while the ebony fingerboard adds an edge of clarity and definition to every note. The pickups, a 490R at the neck and a 498T at the bridge, are the optimum humbuckers for hard rockin’ performance, blended with a dash of vintage-voiced sweetness. And like all of the new 2009 Limited Run Series guitars, only 350 will be produced, each one to come equipped with a Gibson USA hardshell case and special 2009 Limited Run Series certificate of authenticity. Locate your nearest authorized Gibson dealer now and order yours before they’re all gone.

[Kerouac]

As in, "For the love of fuck, stab out my eyes?!"

[reverend1]

How is a Stratish body with a stupid looking pickguard a "pioneering" Design?

[Lerxst]

No...it looks like its wearing chaps

[reverend1]

No...it looks like its wearing chaps

They're probably assless chaps too.

[Help!I'maRock!]

silly

[Tiltsta]

SHit Sandwich

[Lerxst]

They're probably assless chaps too.

Is there any other kind?

[PRScott]

Oof.

[jaxn slim]

Like a strat and an SG had a baby. I'm pretty indifferent to it.

[BB123]

Like a strat and an SG had a baby. I'm pretty indifferent to it.

And anyone who says there's no such thing as an ugly baby has never seen this.

[reverend1]

And anyone who says there's no such thing as an ugly baby has never seen this.

Or a baby

[Jbird]

If I wanted a funky-looking red SG, I'd rather have this one in the video, whatever it is:

[Tralfaz]

available beginning April 1 in a strictly limited number of only 350 guitars.

[Mark Wein]

its still on their website 3 years later though.

[ellengtrgrl]

Nah, not for me. I don't much care for the Stratish SG body, and the mutant Batman-style pickguard.

[OGG]

Fugly

[Tralfaz]

its still on their website 3 years later though.

I was hoping it was a rare instance of Gibson actually displaying a sorely-needed sense of humor.

[reverend1]

I was hoping it was a rare instance of Gibson actually displaying a sorely-needed sense of humor.

It takes a while to sell 350 of them.

[Tralfaz]

It takes a while to sell 350 of them.

Probably still sold faster than the Firebird X.

[BlackCat]

Peeker would like it.

[baimun]

[Tig]

The pick guard comes with matching pants.


And a bowl of soup.

[pw5470]

Maybe with a more normal pickguard, or no pickgaurd and no red pickups.

[B Valley]

[BoomBoomBigelow]

I thought that had been thrown in the large pond behind the Gibson factory.

[wahcat]

What were Gibson on when they came up with that?

[Elias Graves]

No.

[PunkKitty]

[Mark Wein]

[irishstu]

No, no, no , no, no, NO!!!!!!!

[altoidman]

This was probably the shape PRS came up with when he 'averaged' a Les Paul Special body with a Strat body. He called it unplayable IIRC.

[flannel]

I love gibsons, but that thing is awful. No no no.

[Jeremy]

Not even a little bit.

[Goldtop11]

[angry tele]

I like it!

[jhamnett]

Oof... NOT HOT

[Brian Krashpad]

Eww.

[Muppet]

Yeah, it's pretty bloody awful.

[Modern Saint]

Firewood! Where is Kong to set that one on fire too?

[Elias Graves]

Is there a meaning behind the name? Like "Oh, that hurts my eyes" or something?