Axes Bold as Love
Feb 09, 2021
4 minutes
BY DAVE HUNTER
IF WE’RE SEEKING a definition for the term cool that bookends the title of this monthly feature, we could do far worse than hold up a pair of detail-precise re-creations of Jimi Hendrix’s guitars. Unveiled by the Gibson Custom Shop at the tail end of 2020, the Jimi Hendrix 1967 SG Custom and 1969 Flying V will be produced in just 150 examples of each model, including 25 left-handed Vs. Together, they deliver a heady trip some 50-odd years back in time.
The SG Custom got national TV coverage when Hendrix played it on on September 9, 1969, and it made plenty of other live dates with the
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