Firebird Gibson Sale‎

In 1962 Gibson president Ted McCarty decided that a bold new guitar was needed to compete with Fender’s popular Jazzmaster. For a fresh, all-new concept, McCarty sought outside help and hired well-known automobile designer Ray Dietrich. After 50 years of designing for such top companies as gibson firebird or explorer
 Lincoln, Packard, Ford, and Chrysler, Dietrich had recently retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Gibson was headquartered at the time. Repairing traditional Gibson Nitro-cellulose is fairly easy, as no matter how many years pass, new nitro will always melt into the old. It makes a virtually seamless spot repair possible. Car paint such as Polyurethane or Acrylic cellulose ( the cellulose is the chemical carrier for the actual finish in the different paints) does not behave this way as it chemically ‘cures’ once dry. This makes the blending of cracks and repairs always visible as the new product will simply not burn into the old, leaving a ghost line where old and new meet.