Overview
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GIBSON made the B-25-12 between 1962 and 1977. It was a traditional grand concert size instrument offering fine resonance and response, Gibson quality and workmanship at an relatively affordable price. It featured a selected two-piece spruce top, Honduras mahogany back and sides, ivoroid binding and ivoroid soundhole purfling ring. The twelve-string, fast, low action neck was made of one-piece mahogany and fitted with an adjustable truss rod. The B-25-12 had a special adjustable twelve string bridge and tailpiece. While the early B-25-12s had a trapeze tailpiece, this was replaced in 1963 by a strings though bridge and again in 1970 by a standard acoustic pin bridge. Tortoise shell pickguard. Chrome-plated enclosed machine heads. Grand concert size and shape: 14.25" wide. 19" long. 4.5" deep: 24.75" scale length 20 frets. The Gibson B-25-12 came in cherry-sunburst finish (discontinued in 1970) or as the B-25-12N with natural top with cherry finish back and sides (discontinued in 1977).
Specifications (24)
Body
Body back material | mahogany body back |
Body depth | 4.5 inches body depth |
Body sides material | mahogany body sides |
Body style | grand-concert style |
Body top material | spruce body top |
Body width | 14.25 inches body width |
Pickguard material | tortoiseshell pickguard |
Soundhole | round soundhole |
Neck
Body fret | Neck joins body at 14th fret |
Neck joint | set neck |
Number of frets | 20 fret |
Peghead (headstock) | black face headstock |
Tuner layout | six-per-side tuners |
Hardware
Bridge pins | white pins |
Bridge | rosewood bridge, strings-through bridge |
Tailpiece | trapeze tailpiece |
Fretboard
Fingerboard inlay material | pearl fingerboard inlay material |
Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
Fingerboard position markers | dot fingerboard position markers |
General
Finish colors | natural finish, red finish |
Finish effects | sunburst finish |
Made in | USA |
Number of strings | 12 strings |
Scale length | 24.75 inches scale-length |