Description

Hand-built with walnut back and sides and a sitka spruce top with traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing, the J-15 is all the quality and beautiful tone youd expect from a Gibson acoustic at a fraction of the cost of a J-45 or SJ-200. Featuring a dovetail neck-to-body joint that is fitted by hand and bonded with hide glue, as well as an LR Baggs Element pickups system, Gibson spares no time, or expense, to ensure that the J-15 is yet another exceptional extension of their celebrated line of acoustic guitars.

About Gibson Montana:
Luthier Orville Gibson founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI in 1902. Its original aim was to make mandolins and mandolin-family instruments. Over the last 100-plus years, Gibson Brands, Inc., as it is now known, has since evolved into the worlds premier manufacturer of semi-hollow and hollow body electric guitars, as well as a celebrated portfolio of innovative solid-body and acoustic models.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend. So wrote Montana author Jim Harrison, perhaps about the master luthiers of Gibson Montana, which produces all of Gibsons acoustic guitars.

Body Shape: J-45
Top: Sitka spruce
Back and Side Wood: Walnut
Bracing: Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing
Binding: Multi-ply top, single-ply back
Finish: Nitrocellulose

Neck Material: 2-piece maple
Neck Profile: Slim Taper
Scale Length: 24.75”
Fingerboard Material: Walnut
Fingerboard Radius: 12”
Number of Frets: 20
Frets: Standard
Nut Material: Tusq
Nut Width: 1.725”
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl dots
Neckjoint: Compound dovetail neck-to-body joint
Binding: None

Tuner Plating: Nickel
Bridge: Rectangular, closed slot, Walnut
Saddle Material: Tusq
Tuning Machines: Mini Grover Rotomatic
Pickguard: Tear Drop
Truss Rod Cover: B/W
Bridge Pins: Tusq

Pickup: LR Baggs Element
Controls: 1 Volume

Strings: 0.053, 0.042, 0.032, 0.024, 0.016, 0.012
Case: Gibson Hardshell
Other: Includes Gibson Accessory Kit