1963 Gibson Tal Farlow Custom

Year

1963

Make

Gibson

Model

Tal Farlow Custom

Condition

Exceptional

$14,995.00
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SKU: 13562
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Description

This is one rare Jazz Guitar that hardly ever comes up for sale. It’s got an Ice Tea Sunburst finish that’s lighter than the normal Viceroy Brown Sunburst finish, is outstanding. It has 2 nickel plated Pat.# pickups that sound nice. Its 5-piece maple neck & its back & sides are gloriously striped with beautiful Maple, its scroll cutaway is like no other guitar Gibson made. It’s a 17″ guitar w/a laminated maple top & back reinforced with two parallel braces. She has a 5-piece ‘flamed’ maple neck with two mahogany center strips, a very fast thin-to-medium size profile & a bound Brazilian rosewood fretboard. It’s got upside down J-200 Crown inlays & its tailpiece are all standard to this model. It’s got triple binding on top and bottom edges, single-bound f-holes and a delightful mandolin type Scroll inlay in cutaway horn. Its unique Super-400 style long headstock has an inlaid pearl “Gibson” logo and a double crown pearl inlay. It states “Custom” on truss-rod cover. It also has a Black-painted stinger on its back of its headstock. Its nickel plated Grover Super Rotomatic tuners look great. Its Orange oval label inside the bass f-hole is faded & states “Tal Farlow” and serial # written in black ink. It still retains its ABR-1 bridge & its rare chrome capped Brown knobs. It’s sporting an original Super 400 pre-60’s type of tortoise’gard that’s still perfect & finishes the ornate appearance. Rarely do you find such a magnificent example in exceptionally clean all original condition, it comes with its original Brown tolex/pink lined hard case.

This is an extremely high-class model among the many Jazz signatures in the Gibson catalogue, the Tal Farlow was produced from 1962 to 1967 and only 215 were made in that five-year span, making them rare and desirable collector’s pieces. Unlike most musicians who put their signature on a model but hardly ever use it, Farlow remained faithful to the same instrument throughout his career. Gibson has always recognized the value of working with leading artists of the day, and Tal Farlow has been both a first-call sideman and a popular solo artist of the 1950s and ’60s. His performance credits read like a who’s who of the jazz world: he joined Margarie Hyams’ band in 1948, was a member of the Red Norvo Trio (originally with Charles Mingus) from 1949-’53, when he joined Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five for a spell, before forming his own notable trio.