RARE GIBSON VICTORY MVII CM GUITAR - USA Original Vintage 1981 £1850

Description

Vintage 1981 USA Gibson Victory MVII CM guitar in Candy Apple Red. Great condition for a 43 year old guitar - light signs of wear & a few dings here and there, but nothing that affects playability or sound! (See pictures).

All original, except for a new, replacement Gibson USA Nashville bridge & the guitar has recently been professionally refretted by Knight Guitars.

Great guitar, featuring the Firebird type headstock, rather than the new versions that have the Explorer style.

These are incredibly rare & are far superior to the modern reissue, featuring Tim Shaw designed pickups & a variety of switching options.

Comes with a non-original HSC, and the Schaller roller bridge that was on it previously.

Please note - this is offered for COLLECTION ONLY.

£1850

Specifications:

Model: Gibson Victory MV2 (or MVII)
Available: 1981-1983/4
Pickups: "Velvet brick" high-output humbucker at the neck, "Magna II" special design magnet/iron loaded humbucker at the bridge
Electronics: Passive. One volume and tone control. Three position "blade" pickup selector switch (neck, bridge, both), coil tap switch for single coil/humbucking tonalities.
Scale: 24 3/4"
Body: Eastern hard rock maple. Length 18 15/16", width 13", depth 1 3/4"
Neck: Glued in three-ply maple neck with Indian rosewood fingerboard. 22 frets. Offset pearl dot inlays. White binding. 14 degree peghead pitch. MV-2 truss rod cover. Width at nut 1 11/16".
Hardware: Chrome plated throughout.
Finish: Candy Apple Red

"The Gibson Victory MV-2 was the product of Gibsons research and development department in Kalamazoo, Michigan. First shipped in late summer of 1981 with a launch price of $790, it was part of the Gibson Victory series of guitars and basses; a second model to the Victory MVX, and companion to the Victory basses available since mid 1981. It was described in early publicity material as follows...
The Victory MV 2 is designed primarily for the discerning country player. The MV 2 produces with unerring accuracy, those electric guitar voices that make up the very essence of country music. From "Down home" to sophisticated crossover "pop" country, the Victory MV 2 is your guitar.

The Victory guitar bodies and neck/headstocks are crafted entirely of eastern hard rock maple

This produces an incredibly brilliant sustaining tone, because of that material's superior mass and density characteristics.

The whole Victory range gave a deliberate nod to Fenders classic solid bodies. The control layouts are a good example, having blade-style switches with typical Stratocaster placement. The pickups are coil tapped, allowing either single coil, or humbucking configurations. Marketing the MV-2 as a country guitar was Gibson's way of introducing a serious competitor for the Fender Telecaster; indeed it took the elements of Gibson tradition that Fenders lacked, such as a set neck, and applied them to a more Fender-ish body. But ultimately the Victory was it's own guitar. Different from anything produced by Gibson or Fender before or since.

The Gibson Victory series was one of the very last innovative designs to originate from the Gibson Kalamazoo plant before it's closure in 1984, and ultimate move to Nashville. They are very good guitars, but often overlooked for not really being of classic design, and neither being quite old enough to count as 'vintage'. Being all-maple one could suggest a comparison with the Gibson RD a few of which even had a Victory style headstock. They are good playing guitars, and construction is every bit as good as you'd expect from Gibson; certainly worth trying if you can find one."

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