The Gibson 1958 Flying V and Explorer

We are proud to introduce the latest from the Gibson Custom Shop: The Collector’s Edition 1958 Flying V and Explorer. Made with Korina and Brazilian rosewood, these are Murphy Lab-aged clones of the highly collectible original guitars from 1958. In 1958, the year they were introduced, Gibson shipped only 19 Explorers and 81 Flying Vs — the exact numbers our Custom Shop luthiers have created for this collector’s edition. Their space-age and futuristic design was ahead of its time. As the years passed and as their style caught on, their value as collectibles grew. Today they are the world’s most valuable and sought-after vintage guitars. The guitars were discovered tucked into garages. Wrapped in trash bags. Covered in dust. A lucky few people were able to drag out that old brown case and open it to see the natural Korina body in its plush pink bed. We didn’t want to just reissue them - we wanted to clone them - to authentically recreate them in every exacting detail. It took three years to ethica