SOLD! - 1966 Gibson Trini Lopez w/ factory Bigsby & factory Stinger Cherry Red

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Yessiree: We have another original 1966 Trini Lopez for sale, and a special one that is: this all original beauty comes with a factory Bigsby and a factory Stinger!

"The Gibson guitar that was inspired by Trini Lopez is as exciting as the young performer who helped create it," reads one of Gibson's original 1960s advertisements.

In the mid 1960's, a young native Texan singer’s star was rising. With his 1963 hit debut, Trinidad "Trini" Lopez III was scaling the charts with a set of rockin’ folk and pop covers including a rousing take on “If I Had a Hammer” that reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. The cover image for his breakout LP showed Lopez with a Gibson Barney Kessel, which undoubtedly inspired Gibson to seek Lopez out as an endorsee.

The Trini Lopez guitar is favored these days by many famous musicians from Dave Grohl to Noel Gallagher:

"This guitar, I've made every single Foo Fighters record with it. This one. This is a fucking beautiful guitar. I saw this in a guitar shop in Bethesda, Maryland. I think it was 1992 or '93 or something like that, I was still in Nirvana when I bought it. I thought it was unusual because it looks like a Gibson ES 335 except that it has diamond-shaped F-holes and has this different headstock on it. And I didn't really know anything about Trini Lopez the artist when I bought it. But this fucking thing, this is the sound of the Foo Fighters - this guitar. On every record I might use other guitars every now and then, but for the most part it's just this," says guitarist Dave Grohl about his Gibson Trini Lopez Guitar.

In recent years this once derided Gibson model has become a much sought after instrument, especially since favored by Foo Fighter Dave Grohl. While not unusually rare, the Trini Lopez standard shipped only 485 examples in 1966, compared to over 2500-ish ES-335's. Then as now, the Trini Lopez Standard remains the most colorful and distinctive of Gibson's semi-hollow-body family, a visually striking guitar as well as a typically fine playing instrument.

This particular beauty is built with a ES-335 thinline 16" body with double rounded cutaway, eye catching diamond-shaped soundholes, A non-reverse Firebird shaped headstock (While these guitars are usually referred to as having a "Firebird Style" headstock, this model in fact slightly predates the non-reverse Firebird guitars it shares that design with, so really the later Firebirds have a "Trini head" if any... :-)) 2 x Patent Number stickered PAF humbuckers, a tuneomatic bridge with nylon saddles, a rare factory Bigbsy B7 instead of the usual trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond and model name on wooden insert, laminated beveled edge pickguard, single bound top and back, 24.75" scale, bound RW fingerboard with über cool slashed diamond inlays and a 40-41mm nut, Kluson 6 on a side strip tuners and in a lovely dark cherry finish (although also seen with Sparkling Burgundy or Pelham Blue metallic finishes).

To top it all off this beauty came off factory with a super cool black "Stinger" on the back of the headstock. There are no breaks, cracks, repairs or factory second marks and under UV light all lights up perfectly so we can be 100% sure it's a factory stinger! How cool and rare is that....

Overall this is a nice original and very rare guitar, well cared for but played a lot as well. We wtink that is a good sign :-). Most of the finish is very clean with a rich unfaded see-through cherry, but the lacquer on the top shows more checking and and a few marls and playwear. All hardware is original and stock. The frets show some minor wear, but the guitar plays very well. It weighs only 3.8Kg and feels very balanced which is perfect, considering it has a Bigsby and all!

Comes in the original Gibson Hardshell case with yellow/gold plush lining and all latches work perfectly.