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Get elegant, vintage looks and modern sonic appointments with Gibson's Original Collection acoustics

By Jackson Maxwell

Featuring J-45s, Hummingbirds, Doves and more, the Original Collection acoustics flawlessly balance historic visual touches and immaculate tone

After the stellar response to Gibson's Modern and Original series of electric guitars, Gibson's acoustic guitar division, understandably, wanted in on the action.

Citing feedback from customers who loved the immaculate tone and modern appointments of Gibson's regular acoustics, but wanted some more historic visual touches, Gibson's Montana-based acoustic division introduced its own Modern and Original Collections.

Featuring J-45s, Hummingbirds, Doves and more, the Original series acoustics feature everything one would want in a modern acoustic guitar, but with the elegantly traditionalist looks of a classic acoustic.

Gibson Acoustic's Product Specialist, Don Ruffatto, recently sat down for a chat with our Tech Editor, Paul Riario, to discuss the Original series and the company's absolutely stunning Custom Shop Historic Collection.

You can take a look at their conversation, and learn more about these top-of-the-line acoustics, in the video above.

For more info on the Original collection, head on over to Gibson (opens in new tab).

GuitarWorld.com created this content as part of a paid partnership with Gibson. The contents of this article are entirely independent and solely reflect the editorial opinion of Guitar World.

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Jackson Maxwell
Jackson Maxwell

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player (opens in new tab). Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder (opens in new tab) and Unrecorded (opens in new tab). Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.

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