Overview
Brand name:
Product:
- acoustic guitars
Series name:
Dates of manufacture:
1997 to 1998
GIBSON made the CL-30 DELUXE (CL30) between 1997 and 1998. The Gibson CL-30 Deluxe was a solid spruce topped dreadnought acoustic with bubinga back and sides. The body has multi-ply binding, the sound-hole rosette was mother-of-peal and abalone and the fingerboard had distinctive abalone floret inlays. The CL-30 Deluxe was made in the Gibson Bozeman Montana factory - and was a pre-cursor to the Songwriter Series.
Specifications (22)
General
Finish effects | antique finish |
Made in | USA |
Binding | multi-ply binding |
Number of strings | 6 strings |
Scale length | 25.5 inches scale-length |
Body
Body back material | bubinga body back |
Body sides material | bubinga body sides |
Body style | dreadnought-size body |
Body top material | spruce body top |
Pickguard shape | batwing shaped pickguard |
Soundhole | round soundhole |
Neck
Body fret | Neck joins body at 14th fret |
Headstock inlays or logos | pearl headstock inlay/logo |
Neck width | 1.72 inches wide neck |
Number of frets | 20 fret |
Peghead (headstock) | veneer headstock |
Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Hardware
Bridge | moustache bridge |
Tuners | Grover tuners |
Fretboard
Fingerboard inlay material | abalone fingerboard inlay material |
Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
Fingerboard position markers | floret fingerboard position markers |
Prices (13)
Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
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1998 | $1800.00 | new | ||
2012 | $900.00 | good | ||
1999 | $2200 | new | Jay | This guitar has taken a lot of punishment. It has multiple cracks in the top from 17 dry Canadian winters, but it sounds amazing. The bubinga wood back and sides give it so much bass power. |
2016 | $1650 | good | ||
2016 | £1100 | excellent | ||
1999 | 6000 FIM | new | Ale | |
1995 | $1200 | new | ||
2018 | $1250 | good | ||
2001 | $1100 | excellent | ||
1996 | $1200 | new | ||
1998 | $1000 | good | Norwood Mitchell | I have original sales reciept |
1998 | $2500 | good | ||
1998 | $2200 | excellent |