jb_abides
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@matkoehler provided spec info in this clip, which also covers the Firebird 'Platypus' and other new releases.
Not going over everything in the video, since it's covered elsewhere, but SPOILER ALERT: there's an 'avalanche' of new stuff coming including new body shapes, a celebration of 50 years in Nashville, etc.
I just want to document Mat's citations for ~2025 Murphy Lab and Historic Reissue Updates for future reference; let's watch for more specific information to come in since many folks had questions regarding the ABR-1 shape update, etc.
Murphy Lab specific --
Firebird 'Platypus' --
I just want to document Mat's citations for ~2025 Murphy Lab and Historic Reissue Updates for future reference; let's watch for more specific information to come in since many folks had questions regarding the ABR-1 shape update, etc.
Murphy Lab specific --
- Updated Aging: refinement to process and methods still happening in the Lab
- Tom Murphy has a thematic 'story' rational and matching tools for the aging techniques
- Greened knobs
- Mat mentions faux-cracked knobs
- "parts are new" --> still unclear what's specifically new or different today, from what we've seen before as 'New Gibson' with those updates having been discussed prior
- Another citation of scanning, shape, supplier materials to better reflect historic accuracy where still possible, permissble
- For example, we've already seen some 'torpedo' ABR-1s but when was the cutover, if any, or is it a mixed transition
- ABR-1 functional improvements which departs from history: saddles won't rock, 'no-wire' won't fall out unless purposefully pushed in to release, smoothed over parts including saddles
Firebird 'Platypus' --
- "the untold story of the Firebird lineage"
- 2-piece mahogany body
- Set neck
- Inline tuners
- More accurately constructed Firebird pickups ===> presumably these are the recently updated and already released ones... although perhaps another new update is possible. Like the parts, hard to keep 'gospel' from the casual nature of the video.
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