Brand
Gibson Mandolins 
This brand has the following alternative names: "Dobro-gibson"
News items list Gibson Mandolins
- Gibson Orville Mandolin
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Gibson Guitars has announced the release of the Orville Mandolin, a new model designed as a tribute to the brand's founder, Orville Gibson.
When Gibson invented the archtop guitar in the 1890s, the bigger six-string was but a minor player in a music world far more enamored with a smaller stringed instrument: the mandolin. The Orville Mandolin is announced as an exclusive one-off creation, never seen before and never to be produced again. According to the brand it is constructed with an elegance and artistry befitting Orville Gibson’s legacy, and is topped with a soundboard of solid black spruce cut from a tree that grew in the cemetery where this great originator is buried.
The Orville Mandolin has been made in the "deluxe" F-Style, and brought into being by the artisans at Gibson’s Original Acoustic Instruments Division. Partnering the solid black spruce top carved from an old-growth tree from Morningside Cemetery in Malone, NY, about 30 miles from Orville’s birthplace in Chateaugay, NY, are a solid one-piece stunningly quilted maple back and figured maple sides (rim), all constructed using hot hide glue. The figured maple neck wears an ebony fingerboard with 29 frets (including extension), topped with a pearl nut.
While they echo traditional work on high-end Gibson instruments of the past, the mother of pearl inlays here are rather original. Created by engineer Darron DuBose of the Original Acoustic Instruments Division, they include a Star and Floral Vine inlay on the peghead, new pattern “vine” inlay (with Orvillesque Star and Crescent) on the fingerboard, and floral inlay with Orville portrait and signature on the bound, three-ply tortoise pickguard. Gold Arrow-Point Waverly tuners with inlaid Handel buttons further grace the peghead, while an engraved gold tailpiece adorns the tail. In an extremely tasteful touch, the body itself is unadorned other than its three-ply binding (the f-holes are unbound), allowing the straight, narrow grain of the rare black spruce top to shine through a simple nitrocellulose lacquer finish in Vintage Autumn Amber. Finally, the instrument is protected by an embossed leather Gibson hardshell case.
No MSRP or release date announced.
Full specs:
Body:- Solid Black Spruce top from Morningside Cemetery where Orville Gibson is buried
- Solid one-piece quilted maple back
- Figured maple rim (sides)
- Unbound f-holes
- Tone bar bracing
- Three-ply top binding
- Three-ply back binding
- Figured maple neck with rounded profile
- “Star and Floral Vine” peghead inlay
- Single-ply peghead binding
- Single-action truss rod
- Engraved brass truss rod cover
- Ebony fingerboard with Orvillesque “Star and Crescent/Vine” inlay
- 13 29/32-inch scale length
- 29 frets, with fingerboard extension
- Single-ply binding
- Pearl nut
- 1 3/16-inch nut width
Hardware:- Adjustable ebony bridge
- Gold tailpiece engraved “The Gibson”
- Gold “Arrow-Point” Waverly tuners with inlaid Handel buttons
- Three-ply bound tortoise pickguard with inlay, Orville Gibson portrait and signature
- Vintage Autumn Amber
- Nitrocellulose lacquer
Associated item(s)
- Solid Black Spruce top from Morningside Cemetery where Orville Gibson is buried
- Gibson Victorian F-Style Mandolin
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Gibson Original announced the introduction of the Limited Edition Gibson Victorian F-style Mandolin with only 15 available in the world.
The Gibson Victorian Mandolin has each of the time-proven features that most mandolin players demand while combining the best attributes of the F5 and the F4 mandolin. It is constructed of figured maple back, sides and neck, and a red spruce top with f-holes, all held together with a hot hide glue. As a special touch, the limited edition instruments are made with a one-piece figured maple back, accentuated in an early Victorian Era-like Red Sunburst finish.
The peghead face features a Gibson "double flower pot" inlay used for the first time since the pre-truss era ended. The beautifully figured F5-length neck is topped by an ebony fingerboard with a subtle radius that finishes over the body with an F4-style fingerboard end. Other features include a period correct black face top, F4-style pickguard and side clamp, and nickel-plated Waverly arrow point tuners with ivoroid buttons.
The fingerboard body, and f-holes are also gracefully adorned with ivoroid binding. In keeping with the patina of these original models, the Gibson Victorian F-Style Mandolin comes with an aged varnish finish.
The Limited Edition Gibson Victorian F-Style Mandolin specs include:
- Body: Top Red Spruce, Back is 1 piece Figured Maple, Rim is Figured Maple, Soundhole: Ivoroid Bound F-holes, Bracing: Tone Bars.
- Species: Figured Maple
- Neck: Profile is Rounded V, Neck Joint is Radiused Dovetail, Neck Joint location is 15th Fret, Peghead inlay is Double Flower Pot, Peghead Binding is Ivoroid, Truss Rod is Single Action and Truss Rod cover is Gibson Bell Shaped.
- Fingerboard: Species is Ebony, Scale length is 13 29/32" and number of frets is 24. Inlay is Pearl Dots, Binding is Ivoroid and Fingerboard extension is Victorian F4 Style. Nut: Pearl/Fossil Ivory and Nut Width is 1 3/16"
- Hardware: Bridge: 2 foot adjustable ebony, Tailpiece/Cover: Nickel, Tuning Keys: Nickel Waverlys, Pickguard: Victorian Style Elevated Tortoisoid
- Finish is Traditional Victorian F Model Black Top/Red Burst Back with an aged oil varnish overcoat and French polish
- The model comes with Gibson Medium Gauge strings and a Vintage oblong hardshell case.
Associated item(s) - Body: Top Red Spruce, Back is 1 piece Figured Maple, Rim is Figured Maple, Soundhole: Ivoroid Bound F-holes, Bracing: Tone Bars.
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