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Rob Laing

These crazy newly unearthed Gibson archive guitar designs from the '50s prove just how bold it was in the golden era

Gibson.

If Gibson's Theodore was a previously lost Gibson '50s electric guitar design that set tongues wagging in the guitar community, it ain't seen nothing yet.

The Gibson Gazette has reported on a new article by guitar historian Tony Bacon that has unearthed a stock of previously hidden Gibson acoustic guitar concept designs in the company's archives from a 1955 meeting – including what would become the headstock for the Gibson Explorer.

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