Gibson Flying V '67 Electric Guitar

Pros: Classic design, looks, playability, sound
Cons: None

Back around 1958 or so, the Gibson Guitar Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan built four distinctly modern looking solid body electric guitars, in fact, one was even called the Moderne!! The other three were the Firebird, the Explorer,...

Pros: Futuristic looks, great sound, it's a Gibson
Cons: a bit awkward to play sitting down

I owned a Gibson Flying V guitar many moons ago, back in the day when I was just a mere bass player with yearnings to play guitar. I bought it used for $700, and mostly played it at home using cheap Peavy amplifiers. I really did not fully appreciate...

Pros: Beautiful, Fast and Easy to Play, Excellent Quality, Versatile, Comfortable
Cons: None (Except perhaps the price)

I've been playing guitar for over 40 years. I've always been aware of the Flying V, but never played one and never thought seriously about owning one (Stratocasters and Telecasters were always my guitars of choice). Recently (July 2007) I designed a ...

Pros: Low price - relatively to other Gibsons, cool looks and sound.
Cons: Uncomfortable shape.

Radical Design from the 50's Flying V guitar was introduced back in 1958 when Gibson decided to change their image and brought a couple of crazy-shaped guitars to the market. There were 4 guitars: Explorer, Flying V, Futura and Moderne (Moderne ...

Pros: looks cool
Cons: not good at sitting with

Since 1990, I have owned two of these reissues from Gibson. One was black and the other was see-thru wine red. They were completely different guitars.

The black '67:

I bought this one used in a pawn shop for five hundred dollars...

Pros: A fun piece of nostaglia. Looked futuristic
Cons: Difficult to hold. Difficult to play

Think of glam rock and sparkly spangled trousers.
Of mad rockers in Make up during the 1970's.
They are playing strange guitars on Top of the Pops arent they?
And they all look like that hideous picture above dont they?
The Flying...

Pros: Fast neck, classic design, great sounding pickups
Cons: None

This Flying V is a winner. Super fast neck, great sounding gibson pickups 496-R open coil neck pickup, and 500-T bridge pickup. See through cherry finish with a white pickguard. Mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard. Vintage looking keystone gibson...

Pros: Good pickups, clean tone, shiny layout.
Cons: None I can think of.

I have played many Vs, but this is one of the best. When I played a 1959 Korina, I was amazed at the technology used in making it. But when I got the 1967 V, I thought that any V was the same. But in all Flying Vs I've played, this is the best. I have it in Black.