Brian Monty® Bluesmaster, Sunburst - Sold

Brian Monty has been making his own Monty brand guitars and repairing high quality Gibsons and Les Pauls behind the scenes for 27 years. With clients like Bruce Cockburn, Liona Boyd, and the guitarists for Cheap Trick, the Dwight Yoakum Band, the Late Night with Conan O’Brian and Saturday Night Live shows, Monty has developed a name in a business that has reached almost cult-status: maintaining and rebuilding vintage guitars.

Unlike his instruments, Monty is a crusty, no-frills kind of guy. Even if, as he says, he could be “making guitars seven days a week,” if you ask him how he is, he’s likely to respond “still grumpy.” Demand has been growing steadily since on old Gibson could be had for a hundred bucks in the early '60s and now Monty is the man to restore them to their former glory. “Now if you had a Les Paul or an old 335 it couldn’t be played – you’d have to hide it in a vault somewhere,” says Monty. And his own Monty brand guitars “sound terrific,” says local blues guitarist, Andrew Cowan, who owns a Monty guitar and has played it for ten years. “I love that instrument,” he said wistfully. What made it so special? “It’s just in the hands of the maker – Monty knows how to make a guitar sound good.”

Aside from building archtops like Cowan’s by hand, a 150 hour project that ultimately sells for about $8,000, Monty crafts hand-made guitar necks and parts for old Gibsons that have been ravaged by fire, water and time.

This guitar is Brian's version of the famous Gibson Les Paul. But this is as high a quality instrument as Gibson have ever produced; hand made from scratch by just one person. Here are specs:

Chambered solid mahogany body
Hand-carved curly maple top
Mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and block inlays
Peter Florance Voodoo pickups
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish

Sale Price: $2 500.00

Freight cost (contiguous USA): $35.00

Reference #: 2224

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