My New Baby

[Firebrand]

[VanHalenFan5150]

Nice, I love that finish. Excellent score dude!

[ELVIS]

Me likes!

[Nitro Express]

It needs that cool Gibson Firebird headstock but then Gibson would sue their ass.

[Diamondjimi]

Nice geetar.

More details please!

[Firebrand]

OK...details....I've always wanted a "Firebird" style guitar...but had never seen a blueburst with gold hardware of any sort...which is my dream color combo...well, after pricing FBVII's on the web, a good buddy of mine suggested I contact Ryan Gadow...talented young luthier who had built two basses for my bud that he raved about. So...after a little ying and yang with Ryan, we embarked on building 'The Gadow Icebird' last March...she was delivered just after New Years day.

Flame maple top (but not too much) on african mahogany body & neck...Maestro tailpiece (more for 'shimmer' effects than anything)...bound zebra rosewood fingerboard...mother of pearl inllays on frets...Kluson locking tuners...ebony layered head...graphite nut...wide neck...hand-wound Gadow mini-buckers in the neck and middle...Duncan SHPR-1 P-Rail in the bridge (can be single coil/P-90/or bucker)...gold hardware all over...pearloid pickguard to make the binding and inlays pop...totally different than anything I've ever played (my main guitar is a birdseye maple '79 short horn BC Rich Mock Supreme)....very mid-range-y, kind of betwen a Strat and a fat Les Paul...but man, what a looker, too....