“Several features make this example unique. Firstly, there’s the colour, because I’ve never seen a sunburst one before. It’s like a two-tone tobacco sunburst; I’ve had a SG that was the same colour.
It had to be custom-ordered and that’s why there’s a ‘custom’ engraving on the truss rod cover. “Then there’s the ebony fingerboard with genuine mother-of-pearl block markers. Every other EB-6D I’ve seen had a rosewood fingerboard with ‘mother of toilet seat’ celluloid dot markers, but this is more like a Les Paul Custom board, minus the binding.
“There’s a pearl plug where the jack socket would normally be. The original owner, who must have ordered this specially, requested that the jack socket be mounted on the control coverplate. They must have done this to prevent the wood from tearing out in the event of someone hitting or standing on the plug.
“Gibson intended players to use right-angled jack plugs with front-mounted sockets, but most didn’t and damage in this area is fairly common. I assume the thinking was that the plug would simply pull out from the back if anything happened. And if the plastic plate got damaged, the owner could easily order a replacement.
In order to accommodate the socket, Gibson had to customise the control cavity rout, but there are no other structural differences. “Both pickups are ‘Patent Number’ identical to the ones Gibson was fitting to regular six-string guitars. Being a 1965 model, the hardware is a bit.
