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Light-years ahead of its time when it first hit the scene in 1963, the Firebird has long been the choice of adventurous guitarists eager to break the mold for style and tone. This radical Reverse-Bodied electric guitar was conceived amid the chrome and tailfins of the Motor City by noted Duesenberg car designer left handed firebird
 Ray Dietrich, forged on the workbenches of Kalamazoo, and proven on rock and blues stages all over the world, earning its undeniable classic status even after it had been deleted from the Gibson line-up in 1965 for proving just too hot for a conservative guitar scene to handle. Early Firebirds also featured reversed headstocks, with the tuners on the treble side, and the tuners themselves were banjo-style, with the tuning pegs located on the back of the headstock, rather than on the side.“set” or glued-in necks, rather than the through-body design; a variety of pickups, including P-90 single-coils and standard-sized humbuckers; and twelve-string and Studio models.