Vintage 1965 Gibson Melody Maker, Rare Custom Colour ‘Ember Red’ W/sound clip PRICE DROP £1650!

jumping@shadows

Hi all, up for sale is a super cool and extremely rare custom colour ‘Ember Red’ early ‘65 Gibson Melody Maker, in great shape, playing great and sounding awesome!

https://youtu.be/Wm_sO2johHA

I’ve always loved Melody Makers, as they capture so much of what makes vintage Gibson’s so compelling, but at a more affordable price point. 

This one has a big 64 SG neck profile, wide pre ‘65 nut, all nickel parts, and save aged replacement Klusons, fully stock- plus the original finish is so rare, I didn’t even know Melody Makers came in it! 

This one sounds like a ‘50s Jnr- fat, sassy and punchy, with added Esquire-like twang and stringiness, all controlled from the twin knobs.

Price is now ***£1650*** including a decent condition ‘50s faux croc skin LP Jnr case which is worth a couple hundred quid in itself!

Please PM for more pics and any questions and I’m happy to ship anywhere, pro packed and tracked.

Thanks for reading, J@S.

Philly_Q

Nice!  I've got one of similar vintage but in ordinary faded cherry, and no Maestro.
I haven't seen this colour before, very cool.

jumping@shadows

Philly_Q said:

Nice!  I've got one of similar vintage but in ordinary faded cherry, and no Maestro.
I haven't seen this colour before, very cool.

Thanks man! I’ve seen this colour on maybe two vintage Firebirds online, but never on a MM, so it’s definitely rare!

impmann

Its hard to tell from the pics here but it looked like Cherry to me from here - whats the difference between Cherry and this?

Philly_Q

This looks to me like a solid colour, on my cherry one (which has faded to the usual orangey red) there's lots of wood grain visible.

impmann

Philly_Q said:

This looks to me like a solid colour, on my cherry one (which has faded to the usual orangey red) there's lots of wood grain visible.

Thats what I thought - but my old Melody Maker was "solid cherry" (much more battered than this example) and a friend has one that is definitely the same... as a result I thought all MMs of that age were a solid colour. Happy to be wrong, though!!

jumping@shadows

This is absolutely a solid colour, with no grain visible or faded cherry finish of the traditional SG style Melody Maker finish- it’s a deep fire engine Red, and much darker than the more commonly seen Cardinal Red- super rare, and I didn’t even know they did it on these!

Weighs under 6lbs and is super resonant, no doubt thanks to the wraptail bridge and big neck, and sounds legitimately great I think

I’m going to drop the price to £2k shipped with the ‘50s case to move this along, as I’ve just bought two more guitars I couldn’t pass on..

jumping@shadows

Gonna bump this with a price drop to £1350 with a modern hard shell case- killer deal on a rare wide neck custom colour Gibson! 

AlbertC

jumping@shadows said:

Gonna bump this with a price drop to £1350 with a modern hard shell case- killer deal on a rare wide neck custom colour Gibson! 

@jumping@shadows did you mean £1350 or £1650?

jumping@shadows

AlbertC said:

jumping@shadows said:

Gonna bump this with a price drop to £1350 with a modern hard shell case- killer deal on a rare wide neck custom colour Gibson! 

@jumping@shadows did you mean £1350 or £1650?

Not a typo no- I’d sell for £1350 plus shipping with a modern hard case 

MikeC

And sold - looking forward to it arriving!

RichardT

Well bugger me down dead - how did I miss that price drop? A very good buy.

Funkfingers

Philly_Q said:

I've got one of similar vintage but in ordinary faded cherry.

So do I.

My '65 has the short Vibrola but, like the OP, I removed it in the interests of tuning stability. Deep neck  but narrow nut width.   The original card case offers no protection whatsoever.

Philly_Q

Funkfingers said:

Philly_Q said:

I've got one of similar vintage but in ordinary faded cherry.

So do I.

My '65 has the short Vibrola but, like the OP, I removed it in the interests of tuning stability. Deep neck  but narrow nut width.   The original card case offers no protection whatsoever.

Mine just has the wraparound bridge, it never had a Vibrola (no three holes).  The neck is that shallow at the first fret, chunky at the twelfth kind of profile.  I don't think it's narrow at the nut but I wouldn't really mind if it was.   

I don't think anything's original apart from the neck, body, scratchplate and pickup - maybe some screws - but on the other hand it hasn't had any neck breaks, routing or holes drilled in it.  I assume the finish is original but I'm not expert enough to tell one way or the other.