Gibson Elvis Dove Electro-Acoustic Guitar, Ebony

The Gibson Elvis Dove is based on a customized 1969 Gibson Dove that was gifted to the King of Rock and Roll by his father, Vernon Presley, and that Elvis played in concert regularly from 1971 until 1975, including during the 1973 satellite-televised Aloha From Hawaii concert. In 1975, Elvis gifted it in mid-performance to an astonished audience member at a concert in Asheville, North Carolina. The Gibson Elvis Dove features a solid Sitka spruce top, solid maple back and sides, and a mahogany neck capped with a rosewood fretboard. It also comes equipped with modern LR Baggs VTC electronics with an under-saddle piezo pickup and soundhole-mounted volume and tone controls, making it stage-ready, right out of the included hardshell case.

Specifications

Body

• Body Style: Square Shoulder
• Body Shape: Dove
• Body Material: Maple
• Top: Sitka Spruce
• Back: Maple
• Side: Maple
• Bracing: Traditional Hand Scalloped X-bracing
• Binding: 5-ply Top, 3-ply Back, Single ply Fingerboard
• Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck

• Profile: Rounded
• Scale Length: 647.7 mm / 25.5 in
• Fingerboard Material: Indian Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 304.8 mm / 12 in
• Fret Count: 20
• Frets: Standard
• Nut Material: Bone
• Nut Width: 43.815 mm / 1.725 in
• Inlays: Mother of Pearl Parallelograms
• Joint: Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body Joint; Hot Hide Glue

Hardware

• Finish: Gold
• Bridge: Rosewood Dove with Mother of Pearl Dove Inlays
• Saddle Material: Bone
• Tuning Machines: Keystone Waffleback
• Pickguard: Vintage Dove Shape, Plain Black with White Bevel
• Truss Rod: Adjustable
• Truss Rod Cover: Black, Vertical “ELVIS”
• Bridge Pins: Tusq
• Strap Buttons: Gold

Electronics

• Under Saddle Pickup: LR Baggs VTC
• Controls: Soundhole Mounted Volume and Tone
• Output Jack: ¼" Endpin Jack
• Preamp: LR Baggs VTC

Misc.

• Strings Gauge: .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053
• Case: Gibson Hardshell