1979 Ibanez GB10BS George Benson Signature brown sunburst

Very Good condition, 7/10, Made in Japan, including brown original hardcase, original frets with minimal playwear, 3-ply maple neck, the strap button has been moved from the heel to the side of the body, original tuners, one scratch on the back, a few dents in the finish but clean overall, this is the post mid-1979 version with 22 frets instead of the earlier 21 frets, more info: The GB10 is a hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 1977. It is a signature model for American jazz guitarist George Benson. It is made in Japan by FujiGen except for a brief period in the late 1980s when production was moved to Terada. The GB10 was Ibanez's first hollow body artist signature guitar. It is the longest running guitar model in the company's history. It debuted at the NAMM Show in Atlanta, Georgia on June 11, 1977.[1] The GB10 features a smallish, single cutaway, full hollow body design constructed of a laminated spruce top with holes and multi-layer binding on laminated maple back and sides. The set-in three-piece maple neck sports a large headstock and a 22-fret ebony fingerboard with binding and pearl/acrylic and abalone split block position markers. Components include dual, floating Ibanez GB special humbucking pickups with individual volume and tone controls; a height-adjustable ebony bridge with special adjustable split trapeze tailpiece; a bone and brass nut; and a tortoise pickguard. The design inspiration for the GB10 was to create an arched-top, hollow-bodied guitar with the lines of a Gibson Les Paul crossed with a Gibson Johnny Smith signature model. Hoshino USA designer Jeff Hasselberg traced copies of each of those guitars and designed a shape that split the difference between the two. That initial sketch was the basis for the GB10 model.[2] Early examples had 21 frets; the change to 22 frets occurred somewhere between January and March 1979.[3]